Catalogue of the valuable collection of books & engravings illustrating The Costumes of the British Military and Naval forces, the property of Major-General Astley Terry, ... Which will be sold at auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on Tuesday, the 12th of February, 1907 ...
London: Dryden Press, J Davy & Sons, 1907. 25cm. 15[1]pp, head-piece. Original printed paper wraps. Stitching gone; wraps lightly soiled and creased. David Howell Parry's copy with significant ink note to front wrap verso: "This collection ought to have been bought for The British Museum which has hardly any of the printed contained within it. I know of no other collection so perfect, with the exception of Major Milne's, and The Society of the Sabretache in Paris." Various prices, notes and buyers added by Parry - an important military artist.

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