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London: Spink & Son, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and red cloth, marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 483 (3). 26 x 20 cm. Seven color lithograph plates of Ribbons, and 17 full page black and white plates of Medals. Extensive selection of black and white illustrations in the text. Title page printed in red and black. Three pages of adverts at rear. Laid-in articles concerning Sir Thomas Musgrave and The Volunteers of Ireland who fought for the British side and awarded medals during their participation in the American Revolutionary War. Also laid-in an article by Alec A. Purves re The Orders Of The Netherlands (The Military Order of William). Raised bands, spine labels gilt decorated. SECOND COPY...........NOT CATALOGUED.

Aldershot: Committee of the United Service Club, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth with front cover decoration in gilt. Near fine. 132 pages. 25 1/2 x 16 cm. Sixteen illustrations. Index. History of the reknown English officer's club.

London: T. Egerton, 1803. Second edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf slight front cover abrasion at lower left margin. Near fine. (xxi) 387 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm, engraved portrait, two folding tables, three folding maps, one colored in outline. Half title. Sidney Smith in a contemporary review, noted (Edinburgh Review), "The best of the English accounts is certainly that of Robert Wilson....'The narrative is extremely full and very entertaining." [see: ALLIBONE, Vol.III, p.2782]. As a member of Parliament, Wilson pressed to end the practice of corporeal punishment of soldiers, common at the time. Contents Of The Appendix. Action during the Napoleonic Wars. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Tiny faded signature title page head.

London: T. Gardiner, 1803. Second edition. Hardcover. Modern three quarter maroon morocco and lilac cloth. Teg. 5 Vols. Fine. 379, 306, 383, 353, 479 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. 15 folding maps and plans. Lord Lynedoch (Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch) a Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer immersed himself in a military (and later political) career, during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Detailed accounts of the various campaigns including Names of Officers killed, wounded and missing. The one Preface appears in the final volume in which the author extends his apology for the difficulties in translating some French terms to English, and the high cost the engravings to produce the maps which "very much advance the price of this volume." Scattered light foxing, more notable where the placement of maps meet the text page. Bound by New York Cooperative Society.

New York: Atheneum, 1978. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 296 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index.

Belgium: American Battle Monuments Commission, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Contents and portfolio. Fine. 70 pages. 29.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 signed by Christina Kermaire. A listing of every American soldier killed during the Battle of The Bulge during WW II. An alphabetical list noting Name, Rank, Unit, Date of Death and Serial Number buried at the American Military Cemetery and Memorial Henri Chapelle, Belgium. 7080 American soldiers are buried here. Text in English, French and Flemish. Also contains a CD rom, and three glossy photographs. An unusual production, cloth bow beneath a laminated plastic back cover lettered in three languages with green cloth front cover held firm with a black cloth vertical tie.

London: Sam Keble And Dan Brown / J. Moxon, 1697. First editions. Hardcover. Recased in quarter black morocco with corner tips and marbled boards. Fine. (2) 77 (2) pages. 15.5 x 10.7 cm. Half title, 2 page publisher preface, two pages of adverts at rear. Engraved of Raleigh by Frederick Hendrick Van Hove (circa 1628-1698). Small stain title page foot, text clean, early small owner inscription head of preface. Second title: (3) 94 (2) pages with two Moxon adverts at rear. Two page dedication to Robert Lord Viscount Lisle. Dampstains to pages 47 through 85. SABIN 67599 for the Raleigh title.

London: John Murray, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. royal blue cloth. Very good. 444 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Four fold-out color maps. Index. 12 pages of adverts. Contains Burton's "Itineraries of the Second Khedivial Expedition: Memoir explaining the New Map of Midian made by the Egyptian Staff-oficers"; and, "A Visit to Lissa and Pelagosa." The two Burton contributions are responsible for more than half the text in this report. Covers decorated with fillets in blind, backstrip lettering and decoration in gilt. Bookplate of James William Bryans, Regiment Bombay Army "Persia" XXII. Slight marginal page toning.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth spine with printed paper label and navy cloth covers. Very good. 187 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Barber served in the Mexican War, killed 1846 in the battle of Monterey. Limited edition, copy 297 of 1000 signed by Ms. Doubleday. Bright copy. Spine with a few age spots.

New York: Beadle & Adams, Publishers, Nd. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 28 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Beadle's Dime New York Library. Vol. I. No.3. Illustrated. Clean, fresh copy. 20th century facsimile.

Paris: Pierre Tremois, 1946. Hardcover. Text and extra suite of plates, fine in reinforced board chemise with leather spine label, wear at front cover joint. and housed in very good slipcase. Falke, Pierre. 171 pages. 28 x 21 cm, Limited edition, One of 16 on Japan Imperial with an extra suite of 16 pochoir plates bound separately (total edition of 736). Plus one "Dessin Original," signed by Galtier-Boissiere & Falke laid-in with the suite of extra plates. Pochoir chapter heads and endings by Pierre Falke. Mostly unopened, very fresh copy, with intact original glassine wrappers.

Venice: Francesco Rampazetto, 1609. leather_bound. Contemporary mottled calf, all edges red. Very good. [12] 1-56, 61-303 [1] pages. Folio, 34.5 x 24.5 cm. 2 parts in 1, titles with large woodcut device of cannon, full-page engraved portrait of the author by W.Kilian, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and diagrams at beginning, 171 woodcut illustrations of which 7 double-page and 15 full-page, no pages.57-60 but complete. The second, last, and best edition of Lorini's work, and the first edition to contain Book VI. The new book 'Delle fortificationi libro sesto, dove si tratta della difesa delle fortezze' deals principally with sieges, addressing practical problems, like how to repair breached walls, make temporary or portable defences, make the artillery mobile and protect the artillerist, all of which was based on the author's experience in the field. This edition also contains 18 new chapters to the earlier books, with 27 new woodcuts. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, modest shelf… Leer más

New York: New York Historical Society, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.dark green cloth. Very good. 2 vols. Introduction by Dorothy C. Barck. Index. An important primary source for naval operations during the Revolutionary War. Vol. I:Letter-Books July 6, 1780- Feb. 4, 1781; Dec. 10, 1781; Dec. 10, 1781 - Sept. 21, 1782. Vol. II: Order-Book July, 1781; Nov. 27, 1781 - Sept. 21, 1782.Index. Lord Romney commanded His Majesty's fleet in the West Indies and Colonial American waters. He participated in naval activities during the revolution. GEPHART 14325. Ex-library, no exterior marking. Chips to backstrip head.

Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1964. Wraps. Orig. illustrated tan wrappers. Very good. 193 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Illustrated with photographs. North Vietnam's take on the "U.S.-Diem clique" and their Imperialist allies during the Vietnam conflict. Some light dampstains, overall clean.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. 332 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Edited With An Introduction, By M.A. DeWolfe Howe. As a young officer of Sherman's staff his narratives are concentrated on the Georgia and Carolina campaigns of Sherman. He advocated for the election of Lincoln. maintained for the Union and participated in the ouster of the Rebel Governor and Legislature of Missouri. Fold-out map. Owner inscriptions free front endpaper. Index. Interior contents fresh and clean.

London: E. Harding, 1802. Hardcover. Orig. diced calf covers rebacked, and laid-down with corners repaired. Near fine. 112 pages. Folio, 33 x 25.5 cm. Printed at the Oriental Press. The first edition was printed in 1790 and considered a notable work on the subject. Clean, bright and very fresh copy with wide text margins. Marbled endpapers, raised bands, spine labels richly gilt in floral motifs, some slight mottling to covers.

London: Archibald Constable And Co, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and red cloth. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols. 617 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Color frontispiece and 35 color and chromolithograph plates, all printed in gold and silver, plus an additional eighteen other plates of medals, one plate of memorial brass. Appendix and Index. Decorated endpapers, raised bands, spine panels lettered and decorated in gilt. Slight bubbling to cloth, interior contents fresh and crisp.

Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami North-South Center, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine.. 118 pp. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", this work is designed to be an analysis of the extent of Havana's involvement in the revolutionary process in Latin America over the course of the past thirty years. Index.

Salem: Peabody Museum, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine and light gray boards front cover lettered in red with backstrip in gilt. Fine in darker blue fine slipcase with spine paper label. 88 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 23 of 60 on Laverstoke rag paper. Folding map. Laid-in four page publisher publication notice and four page advert of the Peabody Museum of available publications. Bright and fresh copy, almost as new. A tale of British naval blockade during the War of 1812 by one in a line of noted Napier naval and military officers who served Great Britain. Notes in the Massachusetts newspaper testify to the "very polite treatment received from Captain Epworth and his officers by prisoners on board the Nymphe." Bookplate.

London: Corporation of London, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco and tan cloth boards. top edge yellow. Fine. 169 pages. 31.5 x 26 cm. Title page printed in red and black. Twenty six illustrations of medals with multiple images per page, all with tissue guards, printed on glossy stock. At rear an order sheet for Metals Struck by the Corporation of London with a description and price for each. Raised bands, spine labeled in gilt.