manual: Standing Orders and Regulations for the Army in Ireland — Frederick Muller, 1969 facsimile reprint of the edition of 1794; ; 2pp modern prelims, then viii+36pp Orders Respecting the Making-Up of the Annual Regimental Accounts, then 7pp Barrack Regulations with two gatefold forms concerning Candles and Firing, Ration Strengths, and Barrack Rooms, then 150pp of General Regulation for His Majesty's Army in Ireland, 1794, 8pp index, including a gatefold general view of the differences and distinctions in the clothing, horse furniture, and standards on converting the regiments of horse to dragoon guards, for the 4th or Royal Irish Regiment, the 5th, the 6th, and the 7th or Princess Royal's Regiment (formerly 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Horse) and a very large double gatefold, 19x24", showing on both sides of the paper how to fill out a proper Muster Roll for an entire regiment, including Privates Effective for the Full Muster, Reductions in the Ranks, Absences from Desertion, and Rejected Recruits ... right down to Horses Cast, Dead, or Recruited ... includes tables showing rates of pay for officers and the purchase prices of commissions; 12¾x8". $60 Add to Shopping Cart (iri004)
law report: Procedings of the General Court Martial upon the Trial of Captain Wathen, 15th King's Hussars — 1970 facsimile reprint of the 1834 original, with dust cover in very fine condition; brown imitation leather in mint condition, with the arms of the 15th Hussars embossed in gold; 286pp with extra title page; the trial concerned a ridiculous who-said-what tiff between Wathen and his CO, Lt-Col Lord Brudenell, about the issuing of stable jackets to troopers — an insight into the military mind between Waterloo and the Crimea; 8¾x5½". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (mil003)
Clammer, David: The Victorian Army in Photographs — David & Charles, 1975; 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; black cloth; 96pp with index, 141 photos; 9¾x7½". $17 Add to Shopping Cart (mil008)
Dean, Sir Maurice: The Royal Air Force in Two World Wars foreword by Marshall of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur T. Harris — Cassell, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover in fine condition, delaminated in one place; blue cloth in mint condition; xiv+315pp+31pp appendix, biblio, index, 10 maps; 8¾x5¾". $20 Add to Shopping Cart (mil010)
Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars — Allen Lane for Victorian BC, 1974, with dust cover, in very fine condition, spine slightly faded; black cloth in mint condition; xx+353pp+41pp appendix, biblio, index, 34 halftones on art paper, 31 medals used as chapter decorations, 3 maps; 8¾x5½". $12 Add to Shopping Cart (mil011)
Gibson, Tom: The Wiltshire Regiment — Leo Cooper, 1969, with dust cover in near-mint condition; green cloth in mint condition; 14opp+8pp regimental march, chronology, numerous illus; 8¾x5½". $15 Add to Shopping Cart (mil013)
Judd, Denis: Someone Has Blundered — Calamities of the British Army in the Victorian Age — Arthur Barker, 1973, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; dark blue cloth; xx+165+8pp maps, pictures+14pp chronology, biblio, index; 8¾x5½". $18 Add to Shopping Cart (mil015)
Legg, Stuart: Trafalgar — eye-witness accounts of a great battle — Rupert Hart-Davis, 1966, 1st edn, with dust cover in fair condition; purple cloth in mint condition; 130pp+2pp biblio, 8 plates on art paper, 4 maps; 8½x6¾". $19 Add to Shopping Cart (mil016)
Lloyd, Alan: The Zulu War, 1879 — Hart Davis McGibbon for Readers Union, 1976, with dust cover, in mint condition; green cloth; 164pp+11pp biblio, index, 45 illus on art paper, 2 maps; 8¾x5½". $13 Add to Shopping Cart (mil017)
Pemberton, W. Baring: Battles of the Boer War — Batsford, 1964, 1st edn, with dust cover in near-mint condition, price excised; blue cloth in mint condition; 207pp+9pp biblio, index, 7 maps, 38 halftones on art paper; 9x6". $21 Add to Shopping Cart (cae031)
Pivka, Otto von: Armies of the Napoleonic Era — David & Charles, 1979, with dust cover in near-mint condition; black cloth in mint condition; 265pp+6pp alphabetical list of military clashes of the era, 1p biblio, 60 b/w plates, text is in two parts — a 60-page essay on weapons, equipment, and tactics in general; and the armies of 40 different states, principalities, etc; 10x7". $28 Add to Shopping Cart (mil021)
Selby, John: The Thin Red Line of Balaclava — Hamish Hamilton for Victorian BC, 1972, with dust cover in near-mint condition, fingered along top edge; red cloth in mint condition; xii+228pp+30pp biblio, appendix, index, 62 halftones, 13 illustrated chapter heads, 12 maps; 9¼x6". $15 Add to Shopping Cart (mil022)
Symonds, Julian: Buller's Campaign — White Lion, 1963, 1st edn, with dust cover in near-mint condition, small scuff at top of spine; black cloth in mint condition; xvi+293pp+20pp, 5 maps, biblio, index, 24 halftones on art paper, 1 facsimile letter; 8¾x5½". $15 Add to Shopping Cart (mil024)
Tyrell, Henry: The History of the War with Russia,giving full details of the operations of the Allied armies, illustrated by a series of steel engravings, comprising portraits of celebrated commanders, events of the war, battle scenes, views of celebrated places in the seat of war, maps, plans, etc. — The London Printing and Publishing Company, London and New York, c1857, for subscription only — 3 volumes bound into six divisions; the binder has ignored the publisher's instructions as to the disposition of the engravings and has, instead, gathered them at the front of each division; red buckram with gold and blind tooling in near-mint condition except that a spider has eaten a portion at the top and bottom of each spine; Div 1, 1854 — iv+pp1-188, 11 steel engravings, decorative division title page; Div 2, 1854 — pp189-384 (end of Vol 1), 10 steel engravings and a 2-page plan of "Sebastopol before its investment by the Allies", decorative title page; Div 3, 1854-54 — pp1-188, 8 steel engravings, including the Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, 2-page map of the Black Sea, 2-page plan of the disposition of troops before Sebastopol; Div 4, 1855 — pp189- 380, with 10 steel engravings, including two of Miss Nightingale, one at Scutari, one tending the wounded after Alma by the light of flares, map of the Baltic, decorative title page (end of Vol 2); Div 5, 1854-56 — pp1-192, with 10 steel engravings including a fine one of the Redan, 2-page map of Turkey-in-Europe, decorative title page; Div 6, 1856 — pp193-337+34pp chronology of events in the war, 6pp index, directions to the binder (ignored), 3 plain title pages, one to each volume, here included as end- leaves; (4½Kg) 11¼"x8". The set $350 Add to Shopping Cart (mil025)
Walder, David: The Short, Victorious War — the Russo-Japanese Conflict, 1904-05 — Hutchinson for Readers Union, 1974; with dust cover in near-mint condition, faded spine; red cloth in mint condition; 306pp+14pp biblio, index, 33 halftones on art paper, 3 maps; 8¾x5½". $13 Add to Shopping Cart (mil026)
Warner, Philip: Distant Battle — a retrospect of Empire — William Kimber, 1973, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; red cloth; 261+9pp index, 30 halftones on art paper, 11 maps; 9½x6½". $18 Add to Shopping Cart (mil027)
Warner, Philip: The Crimean War — a reappraisal — Arthur Barker for Victorian BC, 1973, with dust cover, in mint condition; violet cloth; viii+221pp+12pp maps (5), biblio, index, 29 halftones on art paper; 8¾x5½". $13 Add to Shopping Cart (mil028)
Warner, Philip (ed): Fields of War — a Young Cavalryman's Crimea Campaign — John Murray, 1977, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; green cloth; viii+208pp+7pp index, 18 halftones on art paper, 2 maps, 8¾x5¾". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (mil029)
Woodham-Smith, Cecil: The Reason Why — Constable, 1953, 1st edn, in library binding in very fine condition, library classification on spine; xii+282pp+12pp biblio, index, colour frontis, 4 halftones on art paper, 2 maps, study of the Crimean War; 8¼x5". $18 Add to Shopping Cart (mil030)
Ziegler, Philip: Omdurman — William Collins for Book Club Assoc, 1973, with dust cover, in mint condition; red cloth; 232+5pp biblio, index, 35 b/w and 8 colour plates, 6 maps; 9¼x6". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (cae039)
