H.D. CHAPLIN and C.T. ATKINSON

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. [1881 - 1950]

The Regimental History Committee, Simpkin and Michael Joseph, 1959, 1924, 1954. 3 volumes. 1st Editions. 8vo. pp. xvi, [1], 174: xxviii, 629: 510: maps, plans and illustrations, loose errata slip to third volume. Dust wrappers to volumes 1 and 3 only, both a little worn.

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Book number: 44086

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BENGAL

Bengal Military Fund.

George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for the India Office, 1875. 8vo. pp. 8. Stitched as issued. The Fund was established in 1824 to provide benefits for members and their families who were retired or suffering hardship> officers only of course. It was transferred to the government in 1866. This scarce guide gives the rules and regulations controlling the fund and gives tables of subscriptions due by the various ranks as well as benefits payable to widows, etc.

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Book number: 39905

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MAJOR F.C.C. YEATS-BROWN

The Star and the Crescent, Being the Story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1822. [with] Indian Silver Regimental Salt Shaker.

Allahabad: Printed for Major F.C.C. Yeats-Brown by the Pioneer Press, [1922] 8vo. pp. xii, 358, [1], [addenda slip for the list of men who died in the Great War]> illustrations and maps. Original white pigskin backed cloth, a little worn. Number 95 [of 100? copies]. Together with an Indian silver sand shaker bearing the 17th Bengal Cavalry regimental crest. The regiment went through a variety of names and in 1861 became the 17th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry> it was disbanded in 1882, then reformed in 1885 as the 17th Regiment of Bengal Lancers. It appears that this crest and the form of the name would suggest that the sand shaker dates from between 1861 and 1885.

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Book number: 43051

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A. CONAN DOYLE

The Great Boer War, a Two Years' Record, 1899 - 1901.

Smith Elder, 1901. New Edition, being the fourteenth impression. Completed to the 11th October, 1901, the Second Anniversary of the Declaration of War. 8vo. pp. xii, 680, [8, publisher's catalogue]> 5 coloured folding maps. Original cloth, a little discoloured. Doyle revised the account 16 times during the course of the war.

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Book number: 44483

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MAJOR W.S.R. HODSON

Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: being extracts from the letters of the late Major W.S.R. Hodson... including a personal narrative of the Siege of Delhi and capture of the King and Princes. Edited by his brother, the Rev. George H. Hodson.

John W. Parker, 1859. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 365, [1, 8, publisher's catalogue]> portrait. Original pebble grained cloth, shipped at the head of the spine.

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Book number: 44341

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H.R. KNIGHT and R.S.H. MOODY

Historical Records of the Buffs [East Kent Regiment] 3rd Foot. [1572 - 1919]

Medici Society, 1923, 1935, 1935 & 1922. 4 volumes. 1st volume a re-issue, the others 1st editions. 8v. pp. xviii, [1], 564: xvii, 415, [33, index]: xi, 417 - 768, [28, index]: xx, 554: maps, plans, illustrations. Very Good set in original cloth.

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Book number: 44085

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MURE, Major A.H.

With the Incomparable 29th.

W. & R. Chambers, 1919. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. 206. Original cloth with tiny snag to the head of the spine. End papers rather browned, but generally Very Good. The story of the 5th Battalion, Royal Scots who served with the 29th Division in Gallipoli and the Western Front. A scarce account.

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Book number: 34184

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PALMERSTON, Lord

Selections from Private Journals of Tours in France in 1815 and 1818.

Richard Bentley, 1871. 8vo. pp. 59. Original cloth, Very Good. With both the Lord Raglan and Cefntilla bookplates. Extracts from journals found by Mr. Cowper-Temple soon after the publication of Sir Henry Bulwer's Life of Palmerston.

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Book number: 37654

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PURTEE, Dr Edward O.

History of the [U.S.] Army Air Service.

prepared by Historical Office Executive Secretariat, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, May, 1948. Small 4to. pp.x, 181, [12]> illustrations. Printed on rectos only. Bound in card wrappers. A photographically reproduced official document. Very few copies would have been produced. According to a note only the first 6 copies contained a full set of illustrations and appendices> these were redacted from other copies, as here. Worldcat lists only 2 copies, both at specialist military institutions in the U.S.A.

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Book number: 38772

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L.E. RUUTZ REES

A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow, from its commencement to its relief by Sir Colin Campbell.

Longman, Brown, Green, Lojngman, and Roberts, 1858. 2nd Edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 380> portrait frontispiece of Sir Henry Lawrence, large folding map, errata slip. Original pebble grained cloth, torn and chipped on the spine.

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Book number: 44340

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WILLIAM SIBORNE

Instructions for Civil and Military Surveyors, in Topographical Plan- Drawing> forming a Guide to the Just Conception and Accurate Representation of the Surface of the Earth, in Maps and Plans. Founded upon the system of John George Lehmann. With illustrative plates.

G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822. Oblong folio. pp. x, 1, [1], 39, [1, prospectus for Instructions in Civil and Military Surveying]> 8 plates on india paper. Modern cloth with leather title label. William Siborne [1798 - 1849], British officer and military historian is best known for his work on the history of the Waterloo campaign> his fine atlas of the campaign uses Bates Patent Analglyptograph, a system of shading which when viewed at an angle give the impression of seeing the topological relief.

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Book number: 43990

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SOMERSET, Richard Fitzroy

Diary of Captain the Hon. Richard Fitzroy Somerset, Grenadier Guards, Adjutant 2nd Battalion West African Frontier Force, Feb. 5, 1898 - Feb. 19, 1899.

Privately Published, [1901] 4to. pp. xii, 238. Original thick paper wrappers, Very Good with a little internal spotting and three splash marks to the front wrapper. A family copy with the bookplate of Cefntilla the Raglan family home. The son of the 2nd Baron Raglan, he died of blackwater fever shortly after his return to England in 1899. This is an important first hand account of his experiences followed by letters of condolence.

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Book number: 38504

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STEPHEN C. SPITERI

British Military Architecture in Malta.

Valletta, Malta: Stephen C. Spiteri, 1996. Oblong 4to. pp. xii, [2], 561> colour and black and white illustrations. Fine in dust wrapper with a couple of creases in the lamination, in the original posting box.

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Book number: 42864

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