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Auction No 368, Category: Military

13 Lots (displaying 1 - 13)

Frederick T. Jane "The Torpedo in Peace and War", W.Thacker, 1904, 2nd Edn, oblong quarto,

Lot: 60

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £42
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Frederick T. Jane The Torpedo in Peace and War, W.Thacker, 1904, 2nd Edn, oblong quarto, orig.printed cloth; pronounced browning to prelims and final page of text; b/w art illustrations by the author. 164pp

Christopher Alisby "Waffen-SS: The Unpublished Photographs 1923-1945", in d/jkt;

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £36
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Christopher Alisby Waffen-SS: The Unpublished Photographs 1923-1945, in d/jkt; When all our brothers are silent: the Book of Photographs of the Waffen-SS, 1988, in d/jkt; and related titles, mostly concerning Germany in WW2. Good/VF (8)

Brassey and Leyland (Eds.) "The Naval Annual 1919", William Clowes, 1919, tall octavo,

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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Brassey and Leyland (Eds.) The Naval Annual 1919, William Clowes, 1919, tall octavo, orig.gilt cloth, good; endpapers browned o/w fine internally with all photo-plates, diagrams, and adverts at rear. 

"Letters of General C.G. Gordon to his sister M.A. Gordon", Macmillan, 1888, original gilt cloth, VG;

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £96
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Letters of General C.G. Gordon to his sister M.A. Gordon, Macmillan, 1888, original gilt cloth, VG; cut signature of General Gordon laid down at top of half-title, additionally signed by his sister at top of title page; related newscuttings affixed to rear of front endpaper and rear of half-title; title page browned; some inked annotations by M.A. Gordon, and literary extracts tipped in.

"R.A.F. Pocket Book 1937", Air Ministry, 1937, 3rd Edition, complete with folding charts,

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £18
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R.A.F. Pocket Book 1937, Air Ministry, 1937, 3rd Edition, complete with folding charts, 320pp, plus charts and colour plates of aircraft markings. Fine. Also Appendix in side pocket (browned and creased).

A. W. Keown "Forward with the Fifth: The Story of Five Years' War Service Fifth Inf. Battalion, A.I.F."

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £60
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A. W. Keown Forward with the Fifth: The Story of Five Years’ War Service Fifth Inf. Battalion, A.I.F., Speciality Press, Melbourne, 1921, 1st Edn, original printed cloth, VG; endpapers browned o/w fine internally; signed and inscribed by the author on front endpaper; a photographic postcard loosely inserted (of the author?); 326pp + 24 photo-plates. 

Robert A. Taylor "George Bleazard Cowpe, Lieut. 6th Batt. Cheshire Regiment: Personal Notes and Appreciations"

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £96
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Robert A. Taylor George Bleazard Cowpe, Lieut. 6th Batt. Cheshire Regiment: Personal Notes and Appreciations with Extracts from his Letters 1916-1917, Manchester, 1918; octavo, quarter vellum gilt (marked & stained) over printed boards showing badge of the Cheshire Regiment; light tanning to endpapers o/w fine internally; No. 76 of a limited printing; colour frontispiece and two photographic portraits, all with tissue-guards; 107pp. [Very scarce. No copy of this book is recorded on Copac]

B. Palin Dobson "History of the Bolton Artillery 1860-1928", Blackshaw, Sykes & Morris, 1929;

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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B. Palin Dobson History of the Bolton Artillery 1860-1928, Blackshaw, Sykes & Morris, 1929; small octavo, original printed cloth, spine discoloured; ownership inscription on front endpaper; title page browned; 230pp + 5 photo-plates.

"A Train Errant, being the Experiences of a Voluntary Unit in France and an anthology from their magazine 1915-1919",

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £160
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A Train Errant, being the Experiences of a Voluntary Unit in France and an anthology from their magazine 1915-1919, Hertford,1919,quarto,original printed cloth, one corner bumped. Recalls the experiences of the staff of Ambulance Train No. 16, a team of 40 Quakers from the Friends Ambulance Unit; a fine folding map at rear shows the journeys undertaken by the train. 330pp with b/w and colour illustrations. Endpapers browned o/w fine internally. 

William Hale "Treatise on the Comparative Merits of a Rifle Gun and Rotary Rocket

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £125
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William Hale Treatise on the Comparative Merits of a Rifle Gun and Rotary Rocket considered as a mechanical means of ensuring a correct line of flight to a body impelled through space. W. Mitchell, Military Bookseller, 1863, First Edition; octavo, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, VG; ownership inscription at top of title page o/w fine internally; 39pp plus folding diagram.

Captain Seccombe "Army and Navy Drolleries", Frederick Warne, [1876], quarto, pictorial cloth,

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Captain Seccombe Army and Navy Drolleries, Frederick Warne, [1876], quarto, pictorial cloth, gilt, very good; 24 full-page chromo-litho plates printed by Kronheim (one placed as a frontispiece).

John Jackson "Hunting Songs and other Memorabilia", Fletcher & Speight, Bury, 1902, 1st Edn,

Lot: 142

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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John Jackson Hunting Songs and other Memorabilia, Fletcher & Speight, Bury, 1902, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, VG; b/w tissue-guarded Frontispiece and 4 other photo-plates. 59pp. [John Jackson was a huntsman with the Holcombe Harriers, 1867-1899]

Bruce Bairnsfather "From Mud to Mufti", 1919, orig. cloth, one plate loose o/w VG;

Lot: 154

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £42
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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)