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The Militiaman.

HYNES, PATRICK. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Avon Books, 1994. 1860330010. 1st edition. "A vivid account of the autthor's wartime experiences and conveys with triumphant good humour and attention to detail the confusion, fear and often hilarious unpredictability of those days. Young men were plucked bewildered ou...

George Washington's Mount Vernon. (Illustrated by numerous engravings).

LOSSING, BENSON J. · 1870 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York: The Fairfax Press, nd. Or Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial. Facsimile reprint of 1870 book. (Previously published under the title "The Home of Washington"). Pp.446, 150 engravings. Dark blue cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed...

Mr. Le Clerc's Account of the Earl of Clarendon's History of the Civil Wars. Done from the French Printed at Amsterdam. By J. O. [John Ozell]. The Second Edition Corrected.

LE CLERC, JEAN 1657-1736. · 1710 · Chilton Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates, in Fleet-street, 1710 . 0. A very good quarter calf binding. 8vo. 7.25" x 4.50" x 0.25". [8pp.]/pp.72 . Marbled boards, with brown leather spine. Green leather title label to spine: "Hist. Of...

A History Of The Siege Of Gibraltar, 1779-1783. With A Description And Account Of That Garrison From The Earliest Periods. By John Drinkwater. / Travels In Egypt and Nubia, Syria, And The Holy Land. By The Hon. Charles Leonard Irby and James Mangles

DRINKWATER, JOHN / IRBY, CHARLES LEONARD / MANGLES, JAMES . · 1844 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1844 / 1845 . 0. A very good Victorian full leather binding. 8vo. [4pp.]/pp.172/ [6pp.]/pp.150 . Crimson morocco covered boards with gilt decorated border and central gilt crest: "Leamington College A.D.1844. Gilt dulled and edges lightly...

A Chelsea Centenary, 1834-June-1934 The Story of a Flitting a hundred years ago.

[ BLUNT, REGINALD ] / [ CARLYLE, THOMAS ] . · 1934 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

[London] : Printed for The Chelsea Society, and sold in aid of The Carlyle's House Endowment Fund, 1934 . 0. An original 1934 pamphlet. 10.0" x 7.5". pp.23 . Brown card covers, edges rubbed and chipped. Black titles and portrait illustration to front cover. Sepia coloured port...

Top-Hats in Tobruk.

RANKIN, KENNETH. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Odiham: Kenneth Rankin, 1983. 1st edition. "The story of a Troop of Anti-Aircraft Gunners who took part in the early North African Campaigns. Taken from the diary of one of its officers, it gives an authentic and intimate almost hour by hour account of the Siege of Torbruk, wr...

The Fourth Battalion The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and the Great War.

WADHAM, LIEUT.COLONEL W.F.A. AND CROSSLEY, CAPTAIN J. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Crowther and Goodman (printers),1935. Notes, compiled, more or less in the form of a diary. Contents includes: I.Early Days; II.Festubert; III.Picardy; IV.Arras; V.The Somme; VI.Ypres; VII.Third Battle of Ypres; VIII.Givenchy. Pp.136/xxiv(index), slight toning to endpa...

Essays on the Political History of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries.

VAN PRAET, JULES. · 1868 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Richard Bentley, 1868. Edited by Sir Edmund Head. Pp.lii/464, spotting to inner endpapers and a few minor marginal marks. Brown bevelled cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. G+.

Eyewitness to Trafalgar.

HUSKISSON, THOMAS. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Royston: Ellisons' Editions, 1985. 0946092095. Recollections of Thomas Huskisson, RN covering his first eight years in the Royal Navy (1800-1808). Limited edition (No.99 of 1000 copies). Pp.xii/118, occasional black & white illustrations. Paperback. VG.

Your Most Dutyfull Servant. Eighteenth Century Chevening Recreated.

MILLS, MARIAN. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Sevenoaks: Marion Mills, 1992. 0951986708. 1st edition. The Lively Correspondence Between Countess Grizel Stanhope and her Steward John Brampton. 25.5cms x 19cms. Pp.viii/116, 11 black & white plates, owner's name to top of copyright page. Paperback. VG.

Insurrection in Wales. The Rebellion of the Welsh led by Owen Glyn Dwr (Glendower) against the English Crown in 1400.

ALLDAY, D. HELEN. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Lavenham: Terence Dalton Limited, 1981. 0861380010. 1st edition. "Owen Gly Dwr (Glendower) could claim descent from the princely rulers of Northern Powys and from the royal rulers of Dinefwr in South Wales; educated in England he had fought beside the English in Scotland. But ...

York Minster Historical Tracts. No. 24 . The Period Of The Civil Wars: Neile And Williams By The Rev. R. H. Malden, M.A. Vicar of Headingley and Hon. Canon of Ripon.

MALDEN, R. H. (RICHARD HENRY) 1879-1951. · 1927 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London : S.P.C.K. 1927 0. First and only edition. Original illustrated card covers. Edges browned and rubbed. [16pp.] No pagination. Two separate works: I. Richard Neile. ; II. John Williams. Clean text throughout. VG.

POW - Behind Canadian Barbed Wire. Alien, Refugee and Prisoner of War Camps in Canada 1914-1946.

CARTER, DAVID J. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Elkwater: Eagle Butte Press Co.Ltd, 1998. 096841110X. Originally published in 1980. Pp.253, 12 pages of black & white photographs, signed by the author to title page. Paperback with minor edge wear. Scarce. VG.

The Soul of an African Padre.

CALLAWAY, REV. GODFREY. · 1932 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cape Town: English Church Book Room, 1932. 1st edition. "In these letters of an imaginary native priest, the Author speaks with the knowledge of forty years as a teacher, pastor, and friend of the Kafir people. On the burning question of the White Man's treatment of the Native...

A Say in the End of the World. Morals and British Nuclear Weapons Policy 1941-1987.

RUSTON, ROGER. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. 019827565X. 1st edition. "Is Britain prepared to defend itself, or only to a play a part in Armageddon?..the country's security has depended on a willingness to begin a nuclear exchange which would destroy it along with the rest of Europe, and to...

The Life and Times of John Kettlewell with Details of the History of the Nonjurors.

CARTER, T.T. (EDITOR). · 1895 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1895. 1st edition. Pp.xxiv/273, black & white portrait frontispiece, toning to inner endpapers. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, edges rubbed. Scarce. G+. **John Kettlewell (1653–1695) was an English clergyman, nonjuror and devotional writer. H...

Our Parish Registers : Their Interest to the Village Teacher, Historian and Student. By F. G. Emmison. (Editor of "Bedfordshire Parish Registers.") September, 1931 .

EMMISON, F. G. (1907-1995) . · 1931 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Northampton: Journal of the Northamptonshire County Library, 1931 . 0. Original booklet. Signed by the Author: "With the writer's compliments". pp.8 . Faded blue card covers with black printed titles, and author's dedication along the top edge. Covers soiled and creased plus, ...

Chelsea Old Church 1941-1950.

MATTHEWS, LESLIE / MOBERLEY BELL, MISS. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Fulham: Buckenham & Son, 1957. Official account of the bombing of Chelsea Old Church in 1941, with the subsequent history of the rebuilding of the More Chapel. Pp.46, black & white frontispiece + 3 further black & white plates. Red stiff card covers, bump to base of spine. G+.

Cathedral, College, and Hospital. An Account of the Chaplaincy of The Royal Hampshire County Hospital 1736-1986.

MOXLEY, CYRIL. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Winchester: Privately published, 1986. 0951128906. Short history traces the account of the spiritual and pastoral care of staff and patients through the centuries and was published to co-incide with the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital's foundation. 24c...

St Peter's Anglican Church Twillingate. One Hundred and Twenty-Five Year History 1845-1970.

MANUEL, EDITH M. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

St John's, Newfoundland: Creative Publishers and Printers, 1983. 0920021026. 2nd printing. With Supplementary Material from 1970 to 1983, and in Addition Early History of the Church from 1813. Pp.74, many black & white photos and illustrations, inscribed by the author to the r...