Lot: 73
Deeds That Thrill the Empire, Standard Art Book Co., c.1920, five volume set, quarto, publisher’s gilt cloth, good; fine internally with 100s of b/w illustrations and 26 coloured plates.
Lot: 78
Barnes Wallis (1887-1979): an ink-signed typed letter of 1972 recollecting his WWI service in the Artists’ Rifles, together with a signed & dated autograph card, and a copy of J.E. Morpurgo’s book Barnes Wallis, fine in d/jkt and signed by the author.
Lot: 79
Charles M. Lefferts Uniforms of the American, British, French, and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution, New York Historical Society 1926, tall quarto, original cloth, VG, complete with 50 tipped-in colour plates, the original signed artwork for two other unused plates loosely inserted, and some other items; together with John P. Langellier Hats Off: Head Dress of the U.S. Army 1872-1912, 1999, fine in dustjacket. (2)
Lot: 80
Mockler-Ferryman The 43rd & 52nd Light Infantry Chronicle, 1894 and The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle, 1896, Eyre & Spottiswoode, latter with boards damp affected; plus O’Donnell Historical Records of the 14th Regiment, A.H. Swiss, 1893, fine colour plates intact, front board detached.
Lot: 81
William Wolf Victory Roll! The American Fighter Pilot and Aircraft in World War II, 2001, in djkt; USA Airborne 50th Anniversary, Turner Publishing, 1990; G.E. Cross Jonah’s Feet Are Dry, 2001, signed limited edition in d/jkt; Jefford The Flying Camels: The History of No.45 Sqn, RAF, 1995, in djkt, signed by the author; and another. (5)
Lot: 83
The History of the Campaigns in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798 and 1799 in Germany, Italy, Switzerland. T. Gardiner, & others, 1814, 2nd Edn, octavo, 4 volumes bound as 2; half-calf, gilt, over marbled boards, VG; all maps present, a few with repairs, few tone marks. (2)
Lot: 84
Francois Dedon "Précis Historique des Campagnes de L'Armée de Rhin et Moselle, pendant L'An IV et L'An V", Paris, 1799, modern half-leather preserving original title label; two folding tables and fine folding map at rear; verse inscription on front endpaper dated 1818 by original owner. Some tone marks o/w VG.
Lot: 93
Louis Raemaekers The Great War, Fine Art Society, 1916-1919, 2 volumes, folio, half-buckram over marbled boards,de-luxe edition, each volume signed by the artist; the bindings rather tired, the 1916 volume with title labels damaged; fine internally with all 192 coloured plates.
Lot: 129
G. A. Henty On the Irrawaddy, Blackie, 1897, pictorial blue-green cloth, gilt, previous owners’ bookplates; and a collection of other works by Henty, mostly pictorial cloth, mixed condition. (17)