Storia militare

Waterloo. A Relation of the famous Fight of the 18th June 1815, after impartial Documents, with numerous Illustrations and Explanatory Notes. [Seventeenth Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY

LIBERT Fr. · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Spinette, Quenast, [c.1950]. 8vo., Seventeenth Edition, with numerous illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrapper, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

Waterloo MCCMXV.

BOUVETTE P. d'O de · 0 · Island Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Waterloo Committee, Brussels, [c.1970]. Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs and maps throughout, all captions in French and English; original coloured pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

Waterloo. [Pitkin Pictorial Guide]. FINE COPY

HOWARTH David · 0 · Island Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

[Pitkin Pictorials], [1992]. Roy. 8vo., with coloured and monochrome photographs (a number double-page) in the text; original coloured pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.

The Drum A Royal Tournament Tribute to the Military Drum.

BARTY-KING H. · 0 · Island Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Royal Tournament, [1988]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; original coloured pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.

Napoleon's Last Will and Testament. A Facsimile Edition of the original Document, together with its Codicils, appended Inventories, Letters and Instructions, preserved in the French National Archives. NEAR FINE COPY

NAPOLEON I · 0 · Island Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Paddington Press, [1977]. Roy. 8vo., First English Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous pages of facsimile and illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Commentaries to the original French edition (1969) by Jean-Pierre Babelon and Suzanne D'H...

New Letters of Napoleon I omitted from the Edition published under the Auspices of Napoleon III. From the French by Lady Mary Loyd.

LOYD Lady Mary · 1898 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

Heinemann, 1898. 8vo., First Edition, front free endpaper mildly browned, rear free endpaper moderately browned; original cloth, upper board framed and lettered in black, gilt back, uncut, backstrip moderately sunned (but all gilt entirely legible) else a very good, clean, tig...

Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign. [With an Introduction by Lord Frederick Hamilton and Sir Douglas Straight]. Second Edition.

WOOD General E. · 1895 · Island Books

£74.00 (€88.70 | $97.76 | ¥15,607)

Sampson Low Marston, 1895. 8vo., Second Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 10 illustrations and 7 full-page plans in the text, and 4 large folding maps, neat signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original ribbed c...

Eighteen Fifteen. An End and a Beginning.

FISHER John · 0 · Island Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Cassell, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition, with 25 plates on 16, and 8 illustrations and 2 full-page battle-pans in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

The Nearest Guard. A History of Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, from their Institution in 1509 to the Year 1892. 200 COPIES WERE PRINTED; VC ASSOCIATION COPY

BRACKENBURY Sir Henry · 1892 · Island Books

£288.00 (€345.21 | $380.49 | ¥60,740)

Harrison & Sons, 1892. Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a fine coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate, 11 plates (5 large and folding) in monochrome, and 13 illustrations in the text, black endpapers, neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; original cloth,...

Historical Papers of the Jacobite Period 1699-1750. Volume Second [only]. 525 COPIES WERE PRINTED

ALLARDYCE, ed. Colonel James · 1896 · Island Books

£324.00 (€388.36 | $428.05 | ¥68,333)

New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1896. Roy. 4to., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 9 fine plates (all original tissue guards present), free endpapers mildly browned; original series bindi...

L'Axe Rome-Berlin. Histoire des Relations entre Hitler et Mussolini. Traduction du Commandant Andre Cogniet.[ First French Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION

WISKEMANN Elizabeth · 1950 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Payot, Paris, 1950. 8vo., First Edition thus, page-edges lightly browning; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, uncut and largely unopened, a near fine copy. Wiskemann's early study was first published by OUP in 1949.

The North African Landings 1942. A Strategic Decision.

SAINSBURY Keith · 0 · Island Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Davis-Poynter, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Critically acclaimed study of the thinking and politics behind TORCH and its predecessor GYMNAST.

British Battalions on the Western Front, January-June 1915. Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Aubers Ridge and Festubert. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

WESTLAKE Ray · 2001 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Leo Cooper, [Barnsley, 2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with 31 portraits on 8 plates and 18 maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fourth of the author's invaluable histories of British battalion deployment in WWI.

Historical Records of the First Regiment of Militia; or, Third West York Light Infantry.

RAIKES G. A. · 1876 · Island Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Richard Bentley, 1876. 8vo., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece and 7 plates tinted in sepia; original regimental green cloth, boards with double blind frame borders, upper board blocked in gilt with regimental crest, uncut, neatly rebacked with original backstri...

History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T.F.) 1914-1918.

WARD C.H.D. · 1927 · Island Books

£124.00 (€148.63 | $163.82 | ¥26,152)

Western Mail, Cardiff, 1927. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, divisional sign on title, 29 plates on 17, 5 maps in the text and 4 large folding maps on japon, neat signature (member of the Middlesex Regiment) on front free endpaper, some mild s...

Famous Regiments. The 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own). NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

BRANDER Michael · 0 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Leo Cooper, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small scuff-mark (not affecting illustration) on front panel. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series,...

War in the Desert. The Eighth Army at El Alamein. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

LUCAS James · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Arms & Armour Press, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition, with 41 plates on 16 and 23 maps and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Lucas has very skilfully set personal experiences ...

The Devonshire Regiment. August 1945-May 1958. NEAR FINE COPY

WINDEATT Lieut.-Colonel J.K. · 1980 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Forces Press (NAAFI), Aldershot, 1980. 8vo., First Edition, with 4 maps (one double-page); green cloth, upper board lettered and blocked with regimental badge in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. An important post-war history covering as it does both the Malayan Emergency and...

Famous Regiments. The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire). (The 47th and 81st Regiments of Foot). NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

LANGLEY Michael · 0 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Leo Cooper, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe, p.287.

Over my Shoulder. The Autobiography of Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

SWINTON E.D. · 0 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

George Ronald, Oxford, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 13 plates and illustrations in the text; decorative green cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Perhaps most widely known as the originator of the tank, Swinton wa...