Orders, Decorations and Medals

Carlisle, Nicholas, A Concise Account of the Several Foreign Orders of Knighthood and other honourable distinctions ...., 1st edition, John Hearne, Strand, 1839, xxix, 582pp, ex-libris Charles Longuet Higgins, M.A., Turvey Abbey, A.D. 1874, original cloth, some foxing to edges; another copy, Naval and Military press edition, 1992, boards, with dustcover; Burke, Sir Bernard, The Book of Orders of Knighthood and Decorations of Honour of all Nations, Hurst and Blackett, London, 1858, vii, 411, 16pp, complete with 100 coloured plates, a.e.g., rebound using original decorative gilt cloth covers; De la Bere, Brigadier Sir Ivan, The Queen’s Orders of Chivalry, Spring Books, London, 1964, 228pp, boards with worn dust cover, good and better condition, very useful reference works (4) £120-160