Lot: 43
Veronica Fiorata, et al: Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton, AD 1461, Oxbow Books, 2000, large format h/bk, 277pp; and 6 others on British Archaeological sites 1948 to 1998, good to VF (7)
Lot: 44
Gilbert Walter Lyttelton Talbot, born September 1, 1891, killed in Action at Hooge, July 30, 1915, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1917, orig. printed wraps, uncut, title page & frontispiece darkened, 111pp; In Memoriam J.R.H.F. 1899-1915, printed wraps, VG; Charles Edmonds A Subaltern's War, 1929; Atkinson The Seventh Division 1914-1918, 1927; and another. Fair to VG (5)
Lot: 45
WWI Medical memoirs including Gertrude Moberly Experiences of a 'Dinki Di' R.R.C. Nurse 1933; [Edward Ticker Edwardes] With the R.A.M.C. in Egypt, 1918; Baroness T'Serclaes The Cellar-House of Pervyse, 1916; and two others; plus Thomas Mawson An Imperial Obligation: Industrial Villages for Partially Disabled Soldiers, Grant Richards, 1917, colour frontisp. Good to Fine (6)
Lot: 46
Military History including Thomas Carter Historical Record of the Forty-Fourth, or the East Essex Regiment of Foot, W.O.Mitchell, 1864, with folding-map, photographs and colour plate; Bennet Burleigh Khartoum Campaign 1898, London, 1899; Albert Hodgkinson The King's Own....in the European War, Lewes Press, 1921; Ward The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France, John Murray, 1922; and others, chiefly WWI. Mixed condition. (14)
Lot: 47
Historical Records of the British Army 1836-1844, various volumes, all in original gilt cloth with coloured plates, comprising Seventh Hussars (2, one poor), Thirteenth Light Dragoons (2), Second Regiment of Foot (ex-library), Third Regiment of Foot, Third Dragoon Guards, and Eighth Regiment of Foot. Some plates loose. Poor to fine. (8)
Lot: 52
William Granville Eliot A Treatise on the Defence of Portugal, T. Egerton, 1811, 2nd Edition, paper-covered boards poor and in need of rebinding; clean text; complete with large Military Map (with few repairs) loosely inserted, and 6 smaller folding-maps at rear.
Lot: 53
Captain Robert Jameson Historical Record of the Seventy-Ninth Regiment of Foot or Cameron Highlanders, Blackwood, 1863, original gilt cloth, two colour plates (one heavily foxed) and double-page photo-plate; and other military history, including The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot 1892, two volumes with plates & maps, and other 19th Century. Mixed condition. (13)
Lot: 54
Hampden Gordon & M.C. Tindall Our Hospital ABC, John Lane, c.1916, pictorial boards, VG; and WWI memoirs, mostly medical, including Harold Dearden Medicine & Duty, 1928, Sister Martin-Nicholson My Experiences on Three Fronts, 1916, and Violetta Thurstan Field Hospital and Flying Colours, 1915. Mainly good to fine. (6)
Lot: 55
Richard Cannon Historical Records of the British Army, 1836-1851, various regiments, two rebound, others in original gilt cloth, all with coloured plates, comprising 5th Regt. of Foot, 3rd Regt. of Foot, Royal Regt. of Dragoons, Royal North Regt. of Fusiliers, The King’s Regt.,73rd Regt, 14th Dragoons, and 12th Lancers; mostly good to fine. (8)
Lot: 56
H.R. Sandilands The Twenty-Third Division 1914-1919, Blackwood, 1925, quarto, orig. gilt cloth, VG; gift inscription and a poem in three stanzas on front endpapers; photo-plates, panoramic folding-plate, and 11 large maps at rear.
Lot: 57
Hurst The Manchesters in the East 1918; Headlam The Guards Division in the Great War, 1924, 2 Vols; Magnus The West Riding Territorials in the Great War, 1920; The 21st Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, 1934 (cover stained); Shakespear Historical Records of the…Northumberland Fusiliers, 1920; Hodgkinson The King’s Own, 1921; Stanley The History of The 89th Brigade 1914-1918 (faults); and related titles. Mixed condition. (13)
Lot: 58
Coningsby Dawson Khaki Courage: Letters in War-Time, 1917 (spine faded); Watkins With French in France and Flanders, 1915; Liveing Attack: An Infantry Subaltern’s Impressions of July 1st 1916, Heinemann, 1918, text browned; and other WWI memoirs published 1916-30; plus Tonbridge School and the Great War, 1923, backstrip detached. Mixed condition. (12)
Lot: 59
Liman von Sanders Five Years in Turkey, 1927; N.W. Nevinson The Dardanelles Campaign, 1920, inscribed by the author; “Wagger” (C.W. Longley) Battery Flashes, 1916 (printed cloth cover discoloured); and other WWI memoirs & narrative published 1916-1930. Poor to fine. (11)
Lot: 60
Military Handbooks, largely H.M.S.O. publications, 1906-1931, including Small Arms Training 1931 (in 4 volumes), Handbook of Artillery Instruments 1914 (spine damaged), Animal Management 1915 and 1916 (the former with folding diagrams in rear pocket). Mixed condition. (14)
Lot: 61
Arthur Crookenden The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War, Chester, 1949, orig. cloth, spine faded, fine internally with all plates and maps; neat ownership signature front pastedown. 371pp
Lot: 62
125th Anti-Tank Regiment R.A. 1939-1945, [1947], orig. gilt cloth, VG; The Story of the 79th Armoured Division, Hamburg, 1945, spine frayed & marked, many plates & maps, 314pp; The History of the 3rd Medium Regiment Royal Artillery 1939-1945, [1945], orig. gilt cloth, fine; and other WW2, mainly heavy armour related. Mixed condition. (7)
Lot: 69
Boraston & Bax The Eighth Division in War, 1914-1918, 1926; The Memoirs of Maj. General Sir Hugh Calmont, 1924; E.V. Tempest History of the Sixth Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, 1921; History of the Queen’s Royal Regiment, Vol.VII, 1905-1923; and 3 other WWI histories & memoirs; all complete with maps and plates, the original cloth bindings in mixed condition. (7)
Lot: 70
Dalbiac History of the 60th Division, 1927 (spine partly detached); The Military Memoirs of Lieut.-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, 1908 (one map tape repaired); Eeles The History of the 17th Light Anti-Aircraft Royal Artillery 1938-1945, Tunbridge Wells [1946]; and four others, all WWI history & memoirs, one with a map missing. Poor to Good. (7)
Lot: 108
Bruce Bairnsfather From Mud to Mufti, 1919, orig. cloth, one plate loose o/w VG; Patrick Macgill The Amateur Army, 1915; A.E. Shipley The Minor Horrors of War, 1915; and others including two humorous. Fair to VG (6)