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Emperor Napoleon I, a mid to late 19th century ‘commercial’ oval portrait miniature probably on card depicting the Emperor wearing a green coatee with buttoned back white facings and shallow stand-up crimson collar gold epaulette on left shoulder; Oval Portrait Miniature of a Lady, late 18th/early19th century, assumed to be on ivory, the sitter is shown full face with her left hand to her chin and cheek, grey silvery hair in waves and ringlets, cream silk decollete dress and jacket of...
Hammer Price: £200
Boer War Presentation Silver Hip-Flask, comprising an 8oz. fluid (half-bottle) flask, silver (Hallmarks for London, 1862), with engraved initials ‘AHMJ’ and inscription, ‘Presented by Friends in the Faculty of Advocates, February 1900’, and later engraved initials of a grandson, ‘LHJ’ and on reverse ‘L. H. Jamieson, Royal Engineers, 1961’, approx 100 by 150mm., several dents £100-150
Hammer Price: £70
The British Army Crest Album, a very scarce example of this fine young collector’s publication issued c1890-1908 by Messrs Gale & Polden Ltd, comprising over 220 pages with all regiments of cavalry guards and infantry allotted a separate page, there are blocks of blank pages for the yeomanry volunteer and militia artillery and engineers etc etc, every page in two tone green has a background of military accoutrements, printed panels of information on the respective corps, six blank...
Hammer Price: £140
Camp Pennant, possibly WWI vintage approximately four feet long from the fly to the ends, base material is of white good quality cotton overlaid with various coloured woollen cloth panels yellow crimson midblue and white, a further crimson triangular section is applied with white fabric strips ‘22’ within a ‘U’ shape, all panels are applied to both sides, three tie points on the fly, some minor tears and moth holes but retains good colour overall £40-60
£40–£60
Two Great War Period German Bayonets, the shortened blades with replaced metal cross guards and finely carved ivory handles, one being representative of a young Queen Victoria; and the other Prince Albert, some damage to the Queen Victoria piece, otherwise generally good condition and unusual (2) £40-60
Hammer Price: £55
Two Great War Caricature Drawings, each being an amusing take on a British officer, both signed ‘E. J. May, 18’, individually farmed and glazed, 23 c.m. by 32 c.m. and 21 c.m. by 29 c.m. good condition (2) £30-40
Hammer Price: £25
Abbott, John S. C., The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, in 2 volumes, Harper Brothers, New Edition 1902, xiv, 611 and x, 666pp., profusely illustrated with black and white illustrations and maps, each vol. frontispiece with paper guards, half red leather, spines with five raised bands and gilt ornamentation, marbled end papers, spine edges fraying and worn, wear to corners, otherwise in good condition (2) £40-50
Hammer Price: £40
Cuthbert, Captain J. H. (Editor), The 1st Battalion Scots Guards in South Africa 1899 - 1902, London, 259pp., profusely illustrated with black and white plates, with roll of the 1st Battalion with casualties and officer biographical details, inside cover inscribed, ‘From William H. Ingilby, Captain, Scots Guards, 1903’, ex-libris The Hon. Alicia Margaret Dame Ingilby, red cloth with gilt titles, good condition £150-200
Hammer Price: £250
de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza, General A., With Napoleon in Russia, New York, 1935, 2nd printing, xxiv, 422pp., plus plates, cloth; Austin, Brigadier-General H. H., “Old Stick-Leg”, extracts from the diaries of Major Thomas Austin - Low Countries campaign 1814, London, 1926, 206pp., cloth; Bonaparte, Napoleon, The Waterloo Campaign, Folio Society edition, 1957, 158pp., with folding maps, boards, in card slip-case; Dalton, Charles, The Waterloo Roll Call, 1971 edition, with dust cover;...
Hammer Price: £220
de Rhé-Philpe, G. & Irving, M. (compilers), Soldiers of the Raj, 1989 edition, 386pp., with dust cover; Cook, H. C. B., The Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies 1662 - 1982, London, 1987, xi, 552pp., copy no. 344 of 750 copies, signed by author, with dust cover, in slipcase; Rudolf, R. de M., Short Histories of the Territorial Regiments of the British Army, Naval and Military Press edition, 2 volumes, 726pp., paper covers; Stirling, John, British Regiments in South Africa...
Hammer Price: £60
De Segur, General, Count Philip, History of the Expedition to Russia undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812, in 2 volumes, Treuttel and Wurz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, London, 1827, 6th edition revised and corrected, xl, 354, plus folded map and 382pp., ex-libris ‘Josh. Pocklington’, half calf, marbled boards, slight rubbing to corners, good condition (2) £60-80
Forsyth, D. R., Die Medaljerol Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst Anglo-Boeroorlog, Roberts Publication, 172pp; Lusted, C. A., Queen’s South Africa Medal 1898-1902, Royal Navy and Royal Marines, 52pp, ring-bound; Kaplan, S. M., The Medal Roll of the Queen’s South Africa Medal with bar Relief of Mafeking, 95pp; Kaplan, S. M., The Medal Roll of the Queen’s South Africa Medal with Wepener Bar, 48pp; The Transport Medal Roll 1899-1902, Roberts Publication, all with paper covers, good and better...
Hammer Price: £45
Fortescue, J. & Beadon, Col. R. H., The Royal Army Service Corps, a History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Cambridge 1930 / 31, in two volumes, ix, 278 and xlix, 534pp., both with folding maps, dark blue cloth; Crew, G, The Royal Army Service Corps, London, 1970, ‘Famous Regiments’ series, 320pp., viii, with dustcover, good condition (3) £25-35
Hammer Price: £35
Gifford, E., Memoirs of the Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Buonaparte, in 2 volumes, J. & J. Cundee, London (1814), pp. xxii, 600 and 541, plus index, plus Appendix concerning the Battle of Waterloo, 16pp., each with engraved plates and folded maps, rebound, quarter calf and marbled boards, interior with some staining, overall good condition (2) £70-90
Hibbard, M. G., Boer War Tribute Medals, 1982, lviii, 240 pp., copy number ‘534’ of 1,500 copies, with dustcover, excellent condition £20-30
Hammer Price: £50
Irwin, D. H., War Medals and Decorations, 4th edition, London, 1910, 536pp., with black and white plates, some underlining and marginal notes, original covers, spine cover damaged; Carter, T., Medals of the British Army and How they were Won, London, 1861, The Crimean Campaign, x, 185pp, Egypt, Peninsula, Waterloo & South Africa, viii, 191pp, India, China etc., viii, 192pp, with colour plates, original red and gilt embossed covers, a.e.g., covers worn; Steward, W. A., The A.B.C. of War...
Jones-Parry, S. H., An Old Soldier’s Memories, London, 1897, x, 290pp., red cloth, good condition £100-120
Hammer Price: £100
Laslo, Alexander J., The Interallied Victory Medals of World War I, 2nd Revised Edition, Tallahassee, Florida, 1992, 130pp.; Clarke, John D., Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World, Barnsley, Yorkshire, 2001,272pp., plus colour plates, with dustcover; Schreiber, Georg, Die Bayerischen Orden und Ehrenzeichen, Munich, 1964, 200pp., plus plates; Tammann, G. A., Imperial Russian Makers’ Marks on Orders and Decorations, London, 1993, 50pp., paper covers; Dimacopoulos, George D., Greek...
Hammer Price: £85
Liddel Hart, Captain B. H., The Tanks: The History of The Royal Tank Regiment and it’s Predecessors, Heavy Branch Machine-Gun Corps, Tank Corps and Royal Tank Corps 1914-45, two volumes, published 1959, 1017pp; together with, The Tank Corps Book of Honour, published 1919, this heavily anotated; Historical Record of The 4th Battalion, Royal Tank Corps, published 1925, 77pp, front board heavily worn; together with ten other books of military interest, generally good condition (14) £80-100
Hammer Price: £160
Maxwell, Sir Herbert, The Life of Wellington,The Restoration of the Martial Power of Great Britain, in 2 volumes, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, The Waterloo Centenary Edition, xxxiv, 405 and xi, 415pp., with many plates and folding maps, ex-libris Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, red cloth with gilt lettering and medallions, spine a little faded, good condition (2) £60-80
Mayo, J. H., Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Westminster, 1897, in 2 volumes, lxxxviii, 617pp, with colour plates, rebound covers faded, ex-War Office Library, minor repairs and marginal notes, good condition (2) £70-90
Mockler-Ferryman, Major A.F. (Editor and Compiler), The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle (2), 1898, Vol. VII, viii, 292pp and 1900, Vol. IX, xii, 319pp, both with black and white plates, a.e.g., in green cloth, first signed ‘Vere Annersley Ball-Acton 1899’ on inside end-paper, the second inscribed to ‘Vere A. Ball-Acton, 2nd O.L.I.’, on the title page besides a photograph of the recipient, good condition (2) £40-50
O’Meara, Barry E., Napoleon in Exile; or A Voice from St. Helena, the Opinions and Reflections of Napoleon, in 2 volumes, W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, London, 1822, Fifth Edition, xxviii, 512 and 552pp. ( photocopies of index pages 545-552), each volume frontispiece with paper guards, rebound, quarter calf and marbled boards, good condition (2) £40-60
Raikes, Major G. A. & Key, Capt. R. E., Roll of Officers of The (84th) York and Lancaster Regiment 1758-1910, containing a Record of their Services including Dates of Commissions, London, 1910, xii, 233pp., yellow cloth, some damage to spine and general wear and staining, fairly good condition; [Cannon, Richard], Historical Record of The Fifty-Sixth or The West Essex Regiment of Foot 1755 - 1844, London, 1844, viii, viii, 62pp., red cloth, signs of wear and staining; Birdwood, Lord, The...
Robinson, Major-General Sir C., Wellington’s Campaigns, Peninsula - Waterloo 1808-15, also Moore’s Campaign of Corunna, in 3 volumes, Hugh Rees, London, 772pp., Part. I, 1808-9-10-11, 5th Edition, second impression, 1914; Part II, 1812-13-14, 5th Edition, 1914; Part III, 1815, 6th Edition, 1927, with many folded maps, red cloth, good condition (3) £30-40
Hammer Price: £30
Romer, Major C.F. & Mainwaring, Major A. E., The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War, with a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland, London, 1908, xiv, 271pp., plus 18 plates and with illustrations in text, including useful appendices of killed, wounded and missing, honours and awards etc., signed and inscribed by one of the authors, ‘C. A. Muttlebury, from one of the authors; a slight return for saving his life: & many other kindnesses, Arthur...
Tancred, G., Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions ..., London, 1891, xvi, 483pp, with colour plates, a.e.g.; The War Medal Record (Including Orders of Knighthood), Vol. 1, London, 1896, x, 254pp., plus index to ‘Historical Record of Medals’, xii, with black and white plates, both nicely rebound in red half morocco, ribbed spine with gold lettering, very good condition (2) £150-200
£150–£200
[H.M.S.O.] Navy List, October 1917, includes a full listing of British warships including commissioned merchant ships and small craft; list of officers and men awarded British Orders of Knighthood, D.S.C’s., D.S.M’s., S.G.M’s., R.N.L.I. and R.H.S. medals and foreign orders, 969pp., blue boards, good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £120
Army Lists 1801-7, bound in one volume: December 1801; June 1802; June 1803; July 1803; September 1805; September 1806; January 1807; July 1807, each 60pp., rebound, quarter calf with marbled boards; Army List 1810, February; April; June; July; September; November, each 108pp., rebound half calf, with marbled boards, first with slight internal damage, generally good condition (2) £20-30
Hammer Price: £65
Supplement to the Half-Yearly Army List 1924, reprint, listing war services, 703pp., boards; Monthly Army List, January 1938; paper covers; B.R.C.S & O. St. J. Enquiry List 1917, reprint, list of wounded and missing, 399, 60, 24pp, boards, ‘1938’ poor, others good and better condition (3) £20-30
[A Near Observer], The Battle of Waterloo, containing the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, with Circumstantial Details ...., J. Booth & T. Egerton, London, 5th Edition, 1815, cxliv, 142pp, plus folded map, part coloured of the battlefield positions, folded plan of the Netherlands camapign and two folded etched plates forming a panoramic view of the battlefield, with useful lists of casualties, promotions etc., original card covers with publisher’s printed...
History of the Mutiny at Spithead and The Nore, Thomas Tegg, London, 1842, xii, 415pp., ex-libris George Thomas Davy, original half calf, marbled boards; Gurney, W. B., The Trial of Colonel Quentin of the Tenth ... Hussars, Gale, Curtis and Fenner, London, 1814, vii, 272pp., ex-libris William Middleton, Crowfield Hall, Suffolk, original half calf, marbled boards, covers torn and worn; The Veterans of Chelsea Hospital, Richard Bentley, London, 1842, in 3 volumes, 268, 284 and 291pp., original...
Papers illustrative of the Origin and Early History of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, London, 1872, 343pp., original red cloth, gilt titles; Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, 1882. 131pp., original red cloth, gilt titles, good condition (2) £20-30
Hammer Price: £20
The Tank Corps Journal 1919-1925, six volumes, issue no’s. 1-72 inc.,bound in green cloth, 1942pp, good condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £330
Note Books (7) listing medals to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, compiled by O. D. Cresswell, all unsigned, handwritten with some copied inserts, good condition (7) £50-60
Hammer Price: £520
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