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Lord Churchill's Coup the Anglo-American Empire and The Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
by Webb, Stephen Saunders
An Account of the Relief of Chitral Fort from Gilgit and the Siege of Chitral.
by STEWART Lt C G
Woolwich: R A Institution, 1896. 6 pages. Publisher's offprint bound in blue cloth with blue paper covers enclosed; the original back cover has been neatly repaired. Stewart of the RA was picked up at Gupis to take command of the two guns Colonel Kelly had brought from Gilgit. His account was also publisged in Proc.R.A.I. volume 22 number 8.
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£18.00
The History of the Indian Mutiny: giving a detailed account of the sepoy insurrection in India; and a concise history of the great military events which have tended to consolidate British Empire in Hindustan
by BALL Charles
London: London Printing and Publishing Company, 1860. 2 volumes. iv and 648 pages; ix and 664 pages and viiii. 2 vignette title pages, distance table, 2 double page maps, 79 plates. Contemporary half calf and cloth sides, cover slightly worn. Sorsky 142. Ladendorf 26. The book is complete in 2 volumes. It was also published in 7 divisions. (To search my stock for more books about the British in India please use the keyword india.)
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£320.00
The Pretoria Friend - the authorised medium for official news. Complete set of 17 issues of this broadsheet newspaper from its first issue on 26 June 1900 to 14 July 1900 when it ceased publication.
by STANLEY Lord (British Army press censor)
Pretoria: without imprint, 1900. A fine set of all 17 issues of this Boer War newspaper preserved in a specially made black leather solander box. Each 4 pages and folded as issued. The Pretoria Friend was started by Lord Stanley, the chief British censor, at Pretoria during the early days of British occupation when the city was still under martial law. It was edited by Lt the Hon J Ward.
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£450.00
Photographs of manoeuvres in Baluchistan held in 1928
by Butani Brothers
Quetta: Butani Brothers, 1928. A standard hawkeye album containing 24 copyright photographs each measuring 5.5 by 3.5 inches. Butani Brothers describe themselves as 'regimental photographers 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers Quetta' but their client here was most likely a gunner in 88th Field Battery RA since 18 of the 24 images concern that battery. Some of the images are numbered - 205, 200, 208, 198, 217, 55, 57, 207, 258, 203, 202, 226, 235. In 1928 88th Field Battery was on detached service. It is now part...
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£150.00
A Postscript to the Records of the Indian Mutiny - an attempt to trace the subsequent careers and fate of the rebel Bengal regiments 1857-1858.
by GIMLETTE Lt Colonel G H D
London: H F G Witherby, 1927. 222 pages. Publisher's blue cloth. Sorsky 435. Ladendorf 525. (To search my stock for more books about the British in India please use the keyword india.)
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£200.00
The Green Horse in Ladysmith.
by GORE Lt Colonel Sir John
London: Sampson Low Marston, 1901. xi and 171 pages. Frontispiece group, 6 plates, folding map. Small 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with green horizontal stripes, headcap chipped. Activities of the 5th Dragoon Guards during the siege.
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£75.00
The Destruction of Lord Raglan: A Tragedy of the Crimean War 1854-55
by Hibbert, Christopher
Boston: Little, Brown. 1961 1st Am. ed. 338pp. illus. black cloth sm 4to: Very Good+ in a generally Good dj w/some loss @ spine tail] A nice copy of this military biography of the English Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset (1788-1855), 1st Baron Raglan, whose career ended badly in the Crimea. Lord Birkenhead observed that the author "has given us a work as gripping and terrible as the chapters on Borodino in ‘War and Peace.’" Harold Nicolson called this book "among the best war books that I...
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£8.09
The Downfall of Lobengula: the course, history and effect of the Matabili War. With contributions by Major P W Forbes, Major Sir John C Willoughby, Mr H Rider Haggard, Mr F C Selous, and Mr P B S Wrey
by WILLS W A and COLLINGBRIDGE L T
London: The African Review, 1894. xii and 335 pages. 4 folding plans, numerous text illustrations including many portraits. An excellent copy in the publisher's khaki cloth pictorially stamped in colours; the headcap is slightly pulled. (For more books about the military history of the British in Africa please search my stock using the keyword africa.)
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£160.00
Bugle and Kukri - the story of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
by MULLALY Colonel B R
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1957. xviii and 492 pages. Frontispiece view in colour, 43 illustrations, 21 maps. 4to. A near fine copy in the publisher's green cloth with regimental crest in silver on the front board. Perkins page 508. Not the reduced size second edition. (For other books about the military history of the British in India please search my stock using the keyword india.)
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£90.00
Commissariat and Transport Services (Egyptian Campaign) - Report from the Select Committee...together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence and appendix. 18 July 1884. (Paper 285). (&) Index...(Paper 285-I)
by STANLEY COMMITTEE
London: HMSO, 1884. 874 pages. Folio. A soundly bound copy in somewhat worn contemporary half black calf and marbled boards. Exhaustive enquiry into the conduct of the Tel el Kebir campaign. (For more books about the military history of the British in Africa please search my stock using the keyword africa.)
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£225.00
The Victoria Cross by whom it was won from its origin to the conclusion of the wars in Zululand, South Africa and that of the Transvaal. 5 volumes bound in 1.
by KNOLLYS Lt Colonel W and ELLIOTT Major W J
London: Dean and Sons, (1880) third edition. 5 volumes bound in 1 as published for this edition. xxvii, 128, 142, 78, 238 and 278 pages. 109 illustrations including 3 in colour. Rubbed and discoloured original cloth repaired and relaid on a new cloth back, soundly bound and with the contents very good and clean.
Portmanteau edition of the Gallant Deeds of Our Heroes comprising The Victoria Cross in the Crimea; ...in India; ...in New Zealand, Andaman Islands, Abyssinia, Ashantee, Bhootan etc; ...in... Read more about this item
Portmanteau edition of the Gallant Deeds of Our Heroes comprising The Victoria Cross in the Crimea; ...in India; ...in New Zealand, Andaman Islands, Abyssinia, Ashantee, Bhootan etc; ...in... Read more about this item
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£150.00
The Story of F Troop Royal Horse Artillery...first compiled in 1905 by Major A S Tyndale-Biscoe RHA. New edition to date in 1932
by FINDLAY Lieut Colonel C B
Aldershot: Wm May and Co., 1932. iii and 84 pages. 8 plates, folding map of India. Publisher's blue cloth with crest in gold on the front board. F Troop originated as 1st Troop Bengal Horse Artillery. (For other books about the military history of the British in India please search my stock using the keyword india.)
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£90.00
A Knight's Faith - passages in the life of Sir Herbert Edwardes
by RUSKIN John
Orpington: George Allen, 1885. v and 250 pages. Eton prize handsomely bound in vellum with gilt rules and dentelles and morocco title labels. Volume 4 (complete in itself) of Ruskin's Bibliotheca Pastorum series. (For other books about the military history of the British in India please search my stock using the keyword india.)
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£75.00
An Old Soldiers Memories. By S H Jones-Parry, Captain Royal Dublin Fusiliers
by JONES-PARRY S H
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1897. x and 290 pages. Portrait. A very good copy in the publisher's maroon cloth; the book has been professionally recased and the slightly soiled original spine has been neatly relaid. Sorsky 840. Pegu 1850 and Indian Mutiny. (For other books about the military history of the British in India please search my stock using the keyword india.)
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£120.00
Lights and Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu highlands of the Punjab - a contrast.
by GORE F St J
London: John Murray, 1895. xix and 269 pages. 72 plates from photographs, 21 drawings in the text, Publisher's half white and red cloth. The author travelled to Kulu with his brother Colonel St George Corbett Gore who was in charge of a Himalayan Survey party. Next year he visited the North West Frontier and travelled up the Kurram with a political officer. Excellent photographs reproduced by Messrs Brunner and Hause of Zurich.
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£90.00
Dry Leaves from Young Egypt by an ex-political
by EASTWICK William Joseph
London: James Madden, 1851 third edition. xx and 378 pages. Frontispiece portrait in colour, double page map of Sindh, plan of the battle of Meanee, 12 sepia lithographs including 6 views, 2 folding tables. A near fine copy in contemporary half calf gilt. Eastwick believed that the Amirs of Sindh had been betrayed by the British. As a director of the EIC, he was one of Sir Charles Napier's most bitter opponents. (For other books about the military history of the British in India please search my stock...
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£360.00
Memoirs and Correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Combermere from his family papers.
by COMBERMERE Mary Viscountess and KNOLLYS Captain W W
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866. 2 volumes. xiii and 403 pages; x and 434 pages. 2 frontispiece portraits, 2 titlepage vignettes, plan of the siege of Bhurtpore. Handsomely bound in modern half plum calf and marbled boards, first volume titlepage slightly soiled. Stapleton Cotton served in Flanders and against Tippoo, commanded the cavalry in the Peninsula and in France, and ended his career as commander in chief in India.
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£500.00
Personal Adventures during the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehgurh and Oude. By William Edwards, Judge of Benares, and later Magistrate and Collector of Budaon in Rohilcund
by EDWARDS W
London: Smith Elder, 1858. 204 pages. A very good copy recased in the publisher's salmon cloth blind; the covers are a trifle dusty and the headcap has been neatly repaired. Sorsky 374. Ladendorf 260 with note 'excellent evidence for conditions in the countryside by an unusually unbiased observer'. (For other books about the military history of the British in India please search my stock using the keyword india.)
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£180.00
Diary of the 9th (QR) Lancers during the South African Campaign 1899 to 1902.
by COLVIN Lt F F and GORDON Captain E R
London: Cecil Roy, 1904. xiii and 340 pages. Pocket map, text illustrations. Publisher's half red and yellow cloth. The original cover is illustrated on page vii of R G Hackett's South African War Books. Other ranks' copy with part printed label 'Presented to Cpl A A East 3024 as a memento of the war by the officers of the Regiment.'
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£160.00
Young Winston's Wars: The Original Despatches of Winston S. Churchill War Correspondent 1897-1900
by Churchill, Winston S. edited by Frederick Woods
New York: Viking, 1972 1st ed. 350pp. illus. olive cloth 8vo: Very Good+ in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some tape ghosts on endpp; else VG+]
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£20.32
