Storia militare

Correspondence between Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners and the Ministry of Supply Facsimile Documents from the Second World War

Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners; Ministry of Supply · 1922 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1955. Cloth. An interesting collection of facsimile documents regarding the building of Munitions Factories during the Second World War. In two volumes. Bound is quarter cloth, on marbled paper boards. Printed privately. A vanishingly scarce collection...

Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy. , R.E.

Great British Army Royal Engineers Field Coy, 107th · 1918 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Darlington, WM Dresser & Sons, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A collection of stories by the Company, for the Company. First edition. Illustrated with in-text sketches throughout. A collection of stories and memories from the Great British Army Royal Engineers Field Coy, 107th. W...

History of Thos. Farrington&Apos;S Regiment Subsequently Designated the 29th (Worcestershire) Foot 1694 to 1891

Major H. Everard · 1891 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Worcester, Littlebury & Company, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this history of Farrington's Regiment, subsequently the 29th Worcestershire Foot, 1694 to 1891. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. In...

The Road Back

Erich Maria Remarque · 1931 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of Erich Maria Remarque's sequel to, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first English edition, published simultaneously with the ...

Khaki and Gown an Autobiography

Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood · 1942 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London , Ward, Lock & Co, 1942. Cloth. A smart reprint copy of this fascinating autobiography, with maps and plates. A reprint copy of Khaki and Gown, An Autobiography of Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood, with a foreword by Winston Churchill. William Birdwood was a British Army Of...

The German Air Raids on Great Britain 1914-1918

Captain Joseph Morris · 1925 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Sampson Low , [1925]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Captain Joseph Morris's study of the Germain air raids on Great Britain during World War One. First and only edition of this work, dated via Jisc from a copy held at the National Maritime Museum. An...

A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines with an Index

British Army · 1786 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, War-Office, 1786. Leather. A scarce, eighteenth-century reference work on the officers of the army and marines, bound in full contemporary morocco. A comprehensive, eighteenth-century reference work containing a list of the officers of the army and marines, including a...

The Life of Wellington

William Hamilton Maxwell · 1890 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Bickers & Son, 1890. Leather. A revised and condensed edition of W.H. Maxwell's acclaimed biography of Victorian military and political figure, Arthur Wellesley, the First Duke of Wellington A revised and condensed edition of W.H. Maxwell's acclaimed biograph...

The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Vol. II 1914-1919

Colonel H. C. Wylly · 1933 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Whitehall, The Royal United Service Instituton, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally lovely copy of the first edition of the second volume of military historian Colonel Harold Carmichael Wylly's study of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. This second volume cov...

English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula

Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Napier · 1891 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , John Murray , 1891. Leather. A lovely prize bound copy of this fascinating military history of the battle of the Peninsular War. A New Edition of English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula by Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Napier. This work has been extracted from his Penin...

Addenda to the Queen&Apos;S Regulations and Orders for the Army from the First of July, 1844, to the Twelfth of July, 1847

Adjutant-General's Office, Horse Guards · 1847 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, [1847]. Cloth. Very scarce copy of this little book containing the Queen's regulations and orders for the army from 1844 to 1847. A volume of additional material for the Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army from July 1844...

Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith

Spenser Wilkinson · 1900 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Westminster, Archibald Constable & Company, 1900. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of these historical notes on the Boer War by Spenser Wilkinson, who was an influential figure in military matters. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth bi...

Their Name Liveth Volume II, Part I Some Pictures of Commonwealth War Cemeteries 1914-1918, 1939-1945

1955 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , The Imperial War Graves Commission , 1955. Paperback. A smart copy of this fascinating record of Commonwealth War Cemeteries, with photographs. This volume of commonwealth war cemeteries, is published by the Imperial War Graves Commission who were twice called upon to...

For England and St George

Simon Dunstan · 2000 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive history of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers by Simon Dunstan, bright copy of this first edition. The first edition of this work, a scarce volume. A large paper volume containing a detailed hist...

Fireside Fusilier

The Earl of Wicklow [William Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow]; Evelyn Waugh · 1958 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

Dublin, Clonmore and Reynolds Limited , 1958. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating war memoir by the eighth Earl of Wicklow, the uncommon first edition enclosed in its unclipped dust wrapper. War memoir by the Earl of Wicklow William Cecil James Philip John Paul Howard, a modes...

1894 Czar and Sultan, the Adventures of a British Lad in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-87

Archibald Forbes · 1894 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Bristol and London, J. W. Arrowsmith; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Archibald Forbes' fictionalisation of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with illustrations. First edition of Czar and Sulta...

Napoleon at the Briars

Faith Compton Mackenzie · 1943 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The first limited edition of this short fictionalised history of Napoleon's time at the Briars, St Helena. First edition of Napoleon at the Briars by Faith Compton Mackenzie in the original publisher's cloth binding...

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the Second World War

Sir Frank Fox · 1951 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Aldershot, Gale and Polden LTD, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of an account of The Royal Inniskillings Fusiliers in the Second World War, with illustrations. A first edition copy of this volume. Within this history Frank Fox has produced a record of ...

The Army List

1871 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, John Murray; War Office, 1871-98. Cloth. A uniformly bound set of three scarce editions of 'The Army List', tracing the British Army across a total of 27 years. Three scarce editions of 'The Army List', this set including the volumes for July 1871, ...

A Narrative of the Peninsular War

Major Leith Hay · 1831 · Rooke Books

£2,400.00 (€2,876.78 | $3,170.74 | ¥506,325)

Edinburgh, Daniel Lizars, 1831. First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of Andrew Leigh Hay's vivid first hand account of the Peninsular War, complete with twenty-two plates. The very scarce first edition, last seen at auction in 1939.Complete in two ...