Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field-Exercise, and Movements of His Majesty's Forces by Adjutant General's Office - 1819

London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe, in Paternoster Row, 1747 Fair Condition. Containing: I) An Historical and Genealogical Account of His Grace's Family. II) An Impartial View of His Conduct in His Civil and Military Employments, with the History of His Time, and an Inquiry into the Principles and Measures of Those Parties, which He either Supported or Opposed. III) A Succinct Account of the Most Remarkable Events that Happen'd to Him during upwards of Thirty Years Exile; from Authentic Materials. vi, 544pp, 4pp index, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, marbled endpapers, engraved frontis. Library cloth over backstrip, cover corners worn, hinges taped, inner crack, occasional foxing.

2/2nd Commando Association , 2006. Lean to spine. Usual library marks and wear. Front free endpaper missing. SIGNED BY FOUR MEMBERS OF THE UNIT ON THE TITLE PAGE. 520 pages with b/w illustrations. Includes nominal roll. The unit fought at Timor, New Guinea and New Britain. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

A Brown & Sons Limited, Hull, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Lightly marked pale blue firm covers with gilt lettering and decoration, darkened spine, sound binding except for pages 49-64 being detached, darkened end-papers, clean pages, large fold-out colour plan has horizontal tear. Contains: Advertisements; United Kingdom Commercial Travellers' Association, Hull Branch, details and portraits, Hon. Secretaries for Hull Conference including vignettes; Port of Hull Society & Sailors' Orphan Homes; The City of Hull Official Handbook with a Historical and Commercial Review, 1908 by Sir Albert Kaye Rollit and edited by H E Cooper Newham, introduction by H Feldman, Mayor containing: A Walk with the Visitor Round the Old Town; Round Modern Hull; Round the Docks; The City and Port of Hull - Historical and Commercial; The Co-operative Movement; Municipal Establishments; Visitors' Appendix; Adverisements; Index to Advertisers; Large fold-out coloured map… Read More

Evesham: Printed by J. Agg in the Bridge Street, 1826 Book. Good. Hardcover. 42 pages. Bound in modern paper covered boards with a paper label to the front. Generally in very good condition but with a repaired tear to pages 7/8..

London, Horbury & San Diego: Rickaro Books and Churchill Book Collector, 2019. First, limited, and numbered edition. Hardcover. This is the first, limited, and hand-numbered edition of an essay presenting a previously unrecorded letter by T. E. Lawrence. In 2018, the subject letter, penned in 1925 entirely in T. E. Lawrence’s hand, was discovered laid into copy “50” of the 1935 British limited issue of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence wrote this letter while posted to the Royal Air Force RAF Cadet College at Cranwell, where he completed the famous 1926 “Subscribers'” or “Cranwell” edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This letter consists of 22 lines written by Lawrence on the blank verso of an RAF “Application for Mechanical Transport.” Lawrence remains a remarkably enigmatic figure. We investigate his character and his exploits though his published works - which span the WWI Arab revolt and life inside the inter-war RAF to crusader castles and ancient Greek translation to technical manuals… Read More

London: John Joseph Stockdale (Printed For). Good+. 1807. Hardcover. Author George Canning a noted pittite. Bound In marbled boards, leather spine and corners. Gilt title on spine. Pictorial frontipiece of "Bonaparte", from the painting of Appiani. Both hinges cracked with covers firmly attached. Pages 76-77 with hand written notes on bottom margin not affecting text. England ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 84 pages .

London: Simplin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good +. Imprint includes: Wells, Somerset: Arthur Young. xvi, 207, [1] p., 13 leaves of plates (including 1 folded map; 19 cm. Dark blue rib-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; bevelled edges. Top page edges gilt. Includes bibliographical references (p. [xv]-xvi) and index. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Wm. A. MacFarlane-Grieve [William Alwyn MacFarlane Grieve]. First edition. This is one of a limited edition of 350 copies. Publisher's advertisement for Jefferies' The History of Malmesbury Abbey on p. [i] with the limitation note for this volume on the verso; additional publisher advertisements on final, unpaginated page. The illustrations are from drawings by Agnes Taylor, mostly from phohtographs taken by Charles Andrew, Swindon. This history of Swindon, England, was written by Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) as a young man while working for the North Wilts Herald in 1867. It contains… Read More

Ottawa: Canada. Minister of National Defence 1952. (Hardcover set) 456, 579pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Color frontispieces, maps, photographs, illustrations, full page color illustrations, appendices, indices. The dust jackets are a bit rubbed and lightly worn around the edges. Vol. 1 Origins and Early Years. Vol. 2 Activities on Shore During the Second World War. Color illustration by Harold Beament (Mid-Ocean Convoy), Harold Beament (South Shore St. John's), Robert F. Gagen (Shipbuilding in Ashbridge's Bay), Harold Gilman (Halifax Harbour, Sunset, 1918), A.Y. Jackson (The Convoy), Jack Nichols (Sailors in Hospital) & Tom Wood (Harbour Craft Jetty). (Military--Canada, Military--Canada, Naval History, Royal Canadian Navy).

London: Ministry of Defence, 1964. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Wide 24mo. 1564pp; hundreds of b/w photographs and illustrations. Includes Amendments to 30 July, 1973. Covers a little word, but otherwise a very nice example of a very scarce publication. (Due to the size/weight of this item, additional postage may apply.).

Albany, N. Y.: Weed, Parsons & Co.. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean black embossed cloth has gilt title on spine. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Engraved illustrations. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Prior owners signature on front endpaper. "Act to improve the Discipline and Promote the Efficiency of the Military Forces of the State, passed April 6th, 1858." Military, New York; Engraved Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 352 pages .