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Auction No 369, Category: Military

17 Lots (displaying 1 - 17)

"Guide for Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates of The Church Lads' Brigade,

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Guide for Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates of The Church Lads’ Brigade, and Church Lads’ Brigade Infantry Training, London 1910, pocket-size softback, original printed wraps with piece missing from upper left corner of front cover;  inscribed Orsett Troop (Essex) in ink along fore-edge, some light browning to text o/w fine internally; 262pp including 27 half-tone plates or diagrams. Scarce.

Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot's Log Book December 1943 to July 1945 and related memorabilia,

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £130 - £150
SOLD £96
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Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Log Book December 1943 to July 1945 and related memorabilia, the Log Book issued to Flight Officer J.A. Jane; the collection includes notebooks, RAF insignia and fabric badge, photographs, flight maps, certificates etc. (Qty)

"Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough Containing Maps and Plans Illustrative of the Campaigns,

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough Containing Maps and Plans Illustrative of the Campaigns, Fac-Simile Autographs, Armorial Bearings etc. Henry G. Bohn, 1848, quarto, original blind-tooled cloth, lower right corner bumped; 15 Maps, mostly folding. VG

Capt. F.L. Maitland "Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and of His Residence on Board H. M. S. Bellerophon;

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Capt. F.L. Maitland Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and of His Residence on Board H. M. S. Bellerophon; with a detail of the Principal Events that Occurred in that Ship, Henry Colburn, 1826, First Edition; leather-covered boards detached; fine folding Map; clean text. Publisher’s catalogue dated 1st May 1826. 

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

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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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. 

[Hugh E. Howson] "Two Men – A Memoir", Oxford University Press, 1919, 1st Edn, octavo, cloth-backed boards,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £50
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[Hugh E. Howson] Two Men – A Memoir, Oxford University Press, 1919, 1st Edn, octavo, cloth-backed boards, printed title and additional title label to front board, VG; endpapers browned, ownership signature of 1926; six photogravure plates; occasional fox mark, mostly between pp.263-275; a biography of  Evelyn H.L. Southwell and Malcolm G. White who came together as masters at Shrewsbury School in 1910, left together in 1915, joined the Rifle Brigade, and were both killed in the Battle of the Somme; pp.viii,302.

            

WWI Memoirs and Letters including C.P. Clayton "The Hungry One", 1978, in d/jkt;

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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WWI Memoirs and Letters including C.P. Clayton The Hungry One, 1978, in d/jkt; Princess Marie de Croy War Memories, 1932, 1st Edn; T.A.H. Nash The Diary of an Unprofessional Soldier, 1991, in d/jkt; Lancelot Spicer Letters from France 1915-1918, 1979, in d/jkt; and 2 others. Mainly VG to VF (6)

                                                                                                                  

Lanchester "Aircraft in Warfare: The Dawn of the Fourth Arm", 1916, photo-plates, VG;

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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Lanchester Aircraft in Warfare: The Dawn of the Fourth Arm, 1916, photo-plates, VG; Vivian Voss Flying Minnows, 1977, in d/jkt; “Contact” An Airman’s Outings, 1918; Gray & Thetford German Aircraft of the First World War, 1962, in d/jkt; Heydemarck War Flying in Macedonia, plates & folding-Map; and other WWI Aviation. Good to VF (8)

                                                                                    

John Hayward "The Liverpool Merchants' Hospital in France 1915- 1918", Daily Post, Liverpool, 1919,

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £56
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John Hayward The Liverpool Merchants’ Hospital in France 1915-1918, Daily Post, Liverpool, 1919, small octavo, printed cloth, spine a little worn, endpapers browned, few finger marks o/w VG internally; 86pp plus 8pp of photo-plates. Very scarce

WW2 interest with Poolman "Ark Royal", 1956, 1st Edn in worn d/jkt; Neil McCallum "Journey With a Pistol", 1959, 1st Edn

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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WW2 interest with Poolman Ark Royal, 1956, 1st Edn in worn d/jkt; Neil McCallum Journey With a Pistol, 1959, 1st Edn in near fine d/jkt, and another copy, a 3rd Impression, in price-clipped d/jkt; and A.O. Pollard Epic Deeds of the R.A.F. 1940, 1st Edn in very worn d/jkt. (4)

Military Handbooks, War Office issue, including "Training and Manoeuvre Regulations 1913",

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £54
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Military Handbooks, War Office issue, including Training and Manoeuvre Regulations 1913, Field Service Pocket Book 1914 and the 1916 reprint (both in official pouches), The Gunnery Pocket Book 1945, Trumpet and Bugle Sounds for the Army 1909, and Field Service Pocket Book Pamphlets 1939 1 to 12, and for 1940 (Pamphlet No.1 only) in an issued binder. Also two American 1950s/60s related softbacks. (Qty)

                                                                        

WWI Memoirs, Letters, Diaries including Ernest Swinton "Eyewitness", 1932, orig.cloth;

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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WWI Memoirs, Letters, Diaries including Ernest Swinton Eyewitness, 1932, orig.cloth; John Harris Covenant with Death, 1961 in d/jkt; R.B. Talbot Kelly A Subaltern’s Odyssey, 1980 in d/jkt; Fritz Nagel ​Fritz: The World War I Memoir of a German Lieutenant, 1981 in djkt; and others, mostly in d/jkts. All first editions. VG/VF (14)

Lieut. Geoffrey Malins "How I Filmed the War", Herbert Jenkins, 1920, 1st Edn, original printed cloth,

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Lieut. Geoffrey Malins How I Filmed the War, Herbert Jenkins, 1920, 1st Edn, original printed cloth, spine slightly faded, rear inner hinge a little weak o/w VG; endpapers browned, few minor fox marks in the text; 32pp of photo-plates; xii,307pp.

                                                            

Arthur Crookenden "The History of The Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War", Chester, 1949

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £54
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Arthur Crookenden The History of The Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War, Chester, 1949, quarto, original cloth, spine faded but printed title clear; neat contemp. ownership signature front pastedown; fine internally with all photo-plates and maps. 371pp

"Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth & Nineteenth Battalions the Manchester Regiment

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £56
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Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth & Nineteenth Battalions the Manchester Regiment (First City Brigade): A Record 1914-1918, Sherratt & Hughes, 1923; original gilt cloth, slightly frayed top of spine and along front hinge; fine internally with 3 folding maps and 2 photo-plates of V.C. winners; xvi,357pp.

                                    

Richard Cannon "Historical Records of the British Army comprising the History of every Regiment in Her Majesty's Service

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £60
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Richard Cannon Historical Records of the British Army comprising the History of every Regiment in Her Majesty’s Service – The Eighth, or The King’s Regiment of Foot, Parker & Furnivall, 1844, original gilt cloth, five fine engraved plates, four hand-coloured, 118pp plus 4pp of ads; plus others in the same series including 14th Dragoons, North Devon Regt (library stamps), Northumberland Fusiliers etc. One rebound in library cloth. All with hand-coloured plates. Fair to fine. (8)

"Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches (June 1916-June 1917)", Dent 1920, orig. gilt cloth, front cover badly faded

Lot: 192

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches (June 1916-June 1917), Dent 1920, orig. gilt cloth, front cover badly faded, front inner hinge cracked; complete with the fine set of Maps of Syria & Palestine, Sinai Peninsula, and Egypt, plus a general outline map of the Turkish Empire, all in separate cloth-backed slipcase.