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Auction No 426, Category: Military

9 Lots (displaying 1 - 9)

Watson "The Story of the Blues and Royals: Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons", 1993, in d/jkt; Grand "The Silver Horn", 1934,1st Edn. in d/jkt;

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Watson The Story of the Blues and Royals: Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, 1993, in d/jkt; Grand The Silver Horn, 1934, 1st Edn. in d/jkt; Folio Society publications incl. Wind in the Willows (still in shrinkwrap); and various others, mainly military and hunting/shooting; three of the four early-20th Century magazines still with the advertising inserts intact. (17)     

Military & Naval including William Slim "Defeat Into Victory", Cassell, 1956, complete with 21 maps; and "The Jellicoe Papers", Navy Records Soc.,

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £44
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Military & Naval including William Slim Defeat Into Victory, Cassell, 1956, complete with 21 maps; and The Jellicoe Papers, Navy Records Soc.,1966-68, 2 vols. Military Engineering with tape stains. (6)

J.A. Hammerton (Ed.) "The War Illustrated", Amalgamated Press, Aug.1914 to Feb.1919, bound into eight volumes (vols.8/9 as one),

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
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J.A. Hammerton (Ed.) The War Illustrated, Amalgamated Press, Aug.1914 to Feb.1919, bound into eight volumes (vols.8/9 as one), publisher's pictorial cloth, VG/Fine. (8). [Offered on behalf of The National Trust]

[War Office] "Technical Notes", R.F.C. [Royal Flying Corps], H.M.S.O.,1916, signed and inscribed "2nd Lt. Eyre Percival Morris, 1st. Batt.The Buffs",

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £125
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[War Office] Technical Notes, R.F.C. [Royal Flying Corps], H.M.S.O., 1916, signed and inscribed 2nd Lt. Eyre Percival Morris, 1st. Batt. The Buffs, in pencil to front endpaper. Morris was a pilot with No.8 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He was killed in action on 1st May 1917 when his aircraft took a direct hit from an artillery shell while he was on observation patrol.  Original printed cloth, front board marked; very good internally and complete with 38 folding diagrams, plate number 30 torn (though no loss) and requiring repair. The index refers to a ‘Plate 37A' which is not present though there is no sign of anything having been removed. A unique copy. [Collector's research notes included]

Catherine L.W. Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland "In Memory of Colonel The Honourable Everard Henry Primrose", privately published, London, [1887].

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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Catherine L.W. Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland In Memory of Colonel The Honourable Everard Henry Primrose, privately published, London, [1887]. Octavo, 257pp, frontispiece portrait. Half-leather, gilt, rubbed at extremities. Inscription by author to title page. A scarce title.[Primrose, 1848-85, served in the Grenadier Guards and as the Military Attache at Vienna. He was the brother of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery. His mother who is the author was a very close companion to Queen Victoria and was bridesmaid at her wedding].

Lt.Col. J.J. Thomas "A History of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment), formerly known as the 1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers"

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £46
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Lt.Col. J.J. Thomas A History of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, ‘The King's' (Liverpool Regiment), formerly known as the 1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers. From its inception in 1859 to the end of June, 1908. Liverpool, 1909, privately published. Gilt cloth. No inscriptions. No examples recorded on Copac or Worldcat. 103pp

Military History, mainly WW2 including Drummond "But For These Men", 1962, 1st Edn; Arthur Harris "Bomber Offensive", 1947, 1st Edn;

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £94
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Military History, mainly WW2 including Drummond But For These Men, 1962, 1st Edn; Arthur Harris Bomber Offensive, 1947, 1st Edn; Lindsay Sherwood Rangers, 1952, 1st Edn, and various others. All (bar one s/bk) in d/jkts, the jacket of Sherwood Rangers badly chipped. (13)    

T. E. Lawrence selection including "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", 1935, plus biographical works concerning Lawrence; together with three others

Lot: 77

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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T. E. Lawrence selection including Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, plus biographical works concerning Lawrence; together with three others including Laffan The Guardians of the Gate: Historical Lectures on the Serbs, Oxford, 1918. Mixed condition, Revolt in the Desert with library marks. (13)

Arabian interest including Hogarth "The Life of Charles M. Doughty",1928, first edn., in scarce d/jkt; T.E. Lawrence "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", 1935,

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Arabian interest including Hogarth The Life of Charles M. Doughty, 1928, first edn., in scarce d/jkt; T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, first trade edn; and Maclean Eastern Approaches, 1949, first edn. VG/fine. (4)