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Lot 588
ASSORTED TOYS comprising a Marx plastic and tinplate Whistling Locomotive, battery-operated (not tested), boxed, the box worn; Lincoln International plastic Army Tank, friction drive, boxed, the box good; and a Tomy plastic and tinplate tank, battery-operated (not tested), unboxed (lacking one track), (3).
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Lot 701
[MILITARY & NAVAL] Richards, Walter. Her Majesty's Army, A Descriptive Account of the Various Regiments now comprising the Queen's Forces..., two volumes, Virtue, London, no date [circa 1890], bevelled scarlet cloth gilt (both volumes with damp marking to head of spine; volume two with damp speckled lower cover), all edges gilt, colour plate illustrations, quarto; and Richards, Walter. Her Majesty's Army, Indian and Colonial Forces, A Descriptive Account of the Various Regiments now comprising the Queen's Forces..., Virtue, London, no date [circa 1890], bevelled scarlet cloth gilt, all edges gilt, colour plate illustrations, quarto, (3).
Lot 196
* Telescope. A WWI German Marine single-draw telescope, with nickel plated mounts, leather covered tube and silver presentation plaque inscribed 'German Marine Telescope. Captured in Morogoro, when the ships instruments etc of the German cruiser "Konigsberg", which was sunk in the Rufigi Delta of Utete in June 1915, her whole crew, guns, stores etc were safely landed during the final bombardment and became the main support of the land forces under Col.Von. Lettow. The day after the sinking of the "Konigsberg", German divers who were summoned from Dar Es Salaam started operations and salvaged ammunition etc. Quite probably this telescope too. W. Fleischl, Major. R.A.O.C.', hallmarks for Deakin & Francis, Birmingham 1918, telescope lenses inoperable, 63.5cm fully extended (Qty: 1)NOTESSMS Konigsberg was launched in 1905, and served in the High Seas Fleet's reconnaissance force. She frequently escorted Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht on visits to foreign countries. In April 1914, the ship was sent on what was to have been a two-year deployment to German East Africa, but this was interrupted by the outbreak of WWI and called up for military service. In July 1915 Konigsberg was stationed in the Rufji River for repair work to her engines. Before the repairs could be finished, British cruisers located her, and, unable to steam into the river to destroy her, set up a blockade. After several attempts to sink the ship during the Battle of Fufiji Delta, the British sent two monitors, Mersey and Severn, to destroy the German cruiser. On 11 July 1915, the two monitors got close enough to severely damage Konigsberg, forcing her crew to scuttle the ship. The surviving crew salvaged all ten of her main guns and joined Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's guerrilla campaign in East Africa. Major Walter Fleischl O.B.E., R.A.O.C. (1892-1956), was the second son of an Austrian born wool worker, he was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Lausanne. He joined the army at the outbreak of WWI and served in East Africa reaching the rank of major. In 1919 he changed his name by deed poll to Walter Fletcher and became a Conservative politician. During WWII Fletcher worked for the Special Operation Executive (S.O.E.), being involved in an operation smuggling foreign currency, diamonds and machinery to fund S.O.E. activities.
Lot 226
* WWI: A group 3 to Private N.F. Wakley, Northhamptonshire Yeomanry later Corps of Military Police British War and Victory Medals (9055 Pte. N.F. Wakley. North'd [sic] Yeo.). Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 'Regular Army' bar suspension (536130 Pte. N.F. Wakley. C.of.M.P.), very fine (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Lt Col R J Wyatt MBE TD. Although the WWII pair are impressed North'd Yeo, Wakley did in fact serve with Northamptonshire Yeomanry (North'n).
Lot 233
* Family group. A group of 3 to Private F. Hopwood, Royal Army Ordnance Corps British War and Victory Medals (013277 Pte. F. Hopwood A.O.C.), Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (013277 Pte F. Hopwood. A.O.C.), extremely fine with card boxes of issue and enveloped addressed to ‘Mr F. Hopwood, Elmdon, Saffron Walden, Essex ‘, with M.I.D. oakleaves, Royal Observer Corps lapel badge, certificate of service, M.I.D. certificate, Observer Corps certificate and other related paperwork, together with a bronze memorial plaque to his brother ‘Ernest Richard Hopwood’ and British War Medal (34020 Pte. E.R. Hopwood. Wilts R.), plus condolence slip and card envelope, a shoe box of letters written by Ernest to his family c.1916-17, mostly on YMCA headed note paper from Poona, India, a leather sam browne belt and souvenir silk picture and other related items (Qty: a carton)NOTES013277 Lance Corporal Fred Hopwood, M.S.M., M.I.D., was born in 1892 he joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 1 November 1915, he received his M.I.D. for ‘gallant and distinguished service in the field’ (2 November 1917, he was awarded the M.S.M. for service in Mesopotamia and it was gazetted on 11 October 1918. Howood re-engaged for service in WWII serving with the Royal Observer Corps. 34020 Private Ernest Richard Hopwood served during WWI with 5th Bn, Wiltshire Regiment, he died on 5 October 1918 at King George’s War Hospital, Poona, India (a photograph of his grave is included in the lot). Hopwood is buried in Poona (St. Sepulchre’s Cemetery) India.
Lot 236
* WWII. An "Operation Torch" DSC group to Lieutenant-Commander William Roland Kemp Clark, DSC , M.I.D., RD, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R, reverse officially dated 1943, silver, London 1942 1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star with France and Germany clasp Africa Star with North Africa 1942-43 clasp, Italy Star, War Medal with M.I.D. oakleaf, Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1942, extremely fine, mounted for wear, with conforming miniature dress awards, transmission slip, Royal Naval Reserve Officer's Training Certificate Book, Certificate of Competency Master (Steamship), framed black and white portrait photograph of the recipient in full Naval dress, framed photograph of HMS Royal Ulsterman with record of service from 1940-1945, Maltese silver napkin ring engraved with recipients initials plus ships served in from 1920-1959 (2.2oz) and fine quality Naval Officer's dress sword, the 79.5cm steel blade etched with fouled anchor and G.VI.R. cypher, brass hilt, folding guard and wire-bound fish-skin grip with lions head pommel, 95cm long overall, with sword knot and leather and brass mounted scabbard plus all weather case (Qty: 7)NOTESLieutenant-Commander William Rowland Kemp Clark was mentioned in despatches on 26 August 1942 and awarded the DSC on 4 May 1943 HMS Royal Ulsterman was commissioned for service in 1936, during WWII she served as a Royal Navy Reserve troop transport, taking part in nearly all of the major Allied amphibious operations of of the European war including the Dunkirk evacuations; Operation Neptune (the amphibious part of the D-Day landings) and the liberation of the Channel Islands. Clark commanded the ship from 28 January 1942 to 1 October 1944, and took part in the following operations Operation Ironclad (the battle of Madagascar), landing elements at Diego Suarez on 5 May 1942 (M.I.D.). Operation Torch (the allied invasion of of North Africa), landing United States Army Rangers of the 1st Battalion on the Algerian coast on 8 November 1942. The ship was also attacked by five Luftwaffe aircraft on 14 November whilst ferrying troops from Oran to Algiers (D.S.C.). Operations Husky and Avalanche , on the 10 July 1943, the ship disembarked troops of the British 8th Army in Sicily for Operation Husky . She subsequently took part in Operation Avalanche , landing troops on 9 September 1943 at Salerno on the Italian mainland. Operation Neptune , the amphibious operation that launched Operation Overlord , the allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. The ship disembarked troops of the 9th brigade of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on Juno Beach Liberation of the Channel Islands, the ship landed British troops on Jersey on 11 May 1945 and provided additional reinforcements on 18 May.
Lot 254
Tyneside Scottish Brigade. A group of approximately 850 brigade orders on approximately 350 sheets, nos. 95 (February 1915) to 981 (November 1915), a near-complete run, issues up until 31 July 1915 printed, the remainder issued in duplicated typescript, a little scattered browning, some marginal creasing and fraying, early issues with occasional hole hanging tears at upper margin, slim folio (Qty: approx. 350)NOTESA near-unbroken run, lacking approximately 30 issues from the run. The Tyneside Scottish Brigade (or 102nd Infantry Brigade, consisting of 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd [Service] Bns. Northumberland Fusiliers) was formed in the autumn of 1914 at Newcastle and subsequently trained at Alnwick and Salisbury Plain before embarking for France in January 1916. These orders demonstrate a wide range of administrative and training issues confronting the New Army, ranging from payment of men for the wearing of their own clothes, the employment of civilian police officers as drill instructors, strictures and regulations on the claiming of pay and allowances, behaviour in billets, the issue and availability of kit and equipment, etc., etc.
Lot 261
* WWII Ephemera. A large and varied collection of ephemera mostly relating to WWII, including an undated school boy letter written to a friend during the Battle of Britain, 1940, 'The other day at school the headmaster let us watch a dog fight ... The other day we saw one of our fighters bring down a jerry. I've got over a hundred piece of shrapnel, a piece of a jerry hurricane, spitfire, balloon. A boy showed me German machine-gun', two pages on ruled paper, some spotting, two cellotape repairs to folds verso, the writer being Ray [Raymond, Harry Thomas Skelton of Purbrook, Hampshire], together with a gouache of a bombardier signed by Lucien Cave, 25 x 22 cm, a mimeographed typed copy of Company Orders by T. V. Gardnerre commanding 572 Army Field Company RE, giving orders for Monday 7 May 1945 and giving him for information the terms of the German Surrender, one page, some spotting, framed and glazed, the remaining ephemera largely printed but including some photographs, posters, postcards, small diaries, puzzles, etc, plus HMSO booklets, propaganda leaflets, booklets, magazines and newspapers (Qty: 2 cartons)
Lot 271
Prien ( Jochen ) . Jagdgeschwader 53, a history of the " Pik As" Geschwader , 3 volumes, 1997-98, numerous black & illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with Yerger (Mark C.) , Waffen-SS Commanders, the army, corps and divisional leaders of a legend..., 2 volumes,1997-99, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, minor rubbing to head & foot, large 8vo, and Kurowski (Franz) , German Fighter Ace Hans-Joachim Marseille, 1994, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus Toliver (Raymond F. & Constable, Trevor J.) , Figher Aces of the Luftwaffe, 1996, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and 6 further related volumes, all 1st editions & published by Schiffer Military History, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo/4to (Qty: 14)
Lot 275
World War II. RAF logbook of special operations in south-east Asia, 1943-5, belonging to Robert P. Lewis, flight engineer, aircraft type mainly Catalina, also Dominie and Lancaster, 959 hours logged (of which approx. 100 carried over, and 50 relating to post-war exercises), describing training exercises at RAF Killadeas, escort flights, then transit to Madras via Africa with 240 Squadron, operations commencing in February 1944 and including reconnaissance flights, sightings of Japanese submarines, and special operations ‘Balmoral’ (6 September), ‘Barn Owl’ I-III (2, 4, 27 October), ‘Biff’ I-II (29 & 31 October) and ‘Influx’ (30 January 1945), stamped and signed throughout by flight commander, various documents pasted in, including a typescript notice signed A. G. R. Garrod as deputy commander-in-chief, south-east Asia, offering congratulations for the success of the special operations, contemporary tan cloth binding, spine and front board lettered in manuscript, 8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), together with: original typescript reports of operations Balmoral and Barn Owl I-II (7 foolscap sheets), and 2 further logbooks from Lewis, one a copy logbook recording Lewis’s transit across Africa to India, the other dated 6 October 1942-28 October 1943 and including gunnery training at Barrow-in-Furness in a Defiant, and training exercises at Killadeas in a Catalina, signed by course commander (flight lieutenant), one section loose (Qty: 4)NOTESRobert P. Lewis appears to have held the rank of leading aircraftman in October 1942 and to have been promoted warrant officer by 1944, though he is identified in the accompanying typescript reports on operations Barn Owl and Balmoral as holding the commissioned rank of flying officer, and names himself on the coer of his logbook as a flight lieutenant. According to the typescript reports the object of secret operation Barn Owl was 'To proceed to Bentinck Island ... in the Isthmus of Kra, and collect eight Japanese prisoners, who had stumbled on four British agents, under Capt. Nichols, of the Kachen Levies'; that of Balmoral was 'To proceed with two U. S. Army Lietuenants, and one Malay guide, and drop them on Davis Island, 16 miles to the S.W. of Victoria Point, on the Burmese Siam border. They were to send back movements and strength of Japanese convoys moving between Singapore and Rangoon. Secondarily, to chart the waters around the local islands and recco them with a view to future landings'.
Lot 279
ARR* Beddoes (Ivor, 1909-1981). A rare group of 21 watercolour and pencil drawings on paper of scenes mostly from the London Blitz, many taken from life, 1940-41, including 14 drawings in watercolour and pencil on paper of the blitz from a series marked 'ARP', all 38 x 56 cm, together with a related charcoal drawing of the same size and 3 smaller watercolours of blitz scenes, plus 3 further watercolours from a series made by Beddoes in North Wales in February 1941, the majority of drawings in mounts with window apertures, and with pencil titles, notes and dates to margins, mounts and sheet versos, some signed or initialled by Beddoes in pencilNOTES1) Stretcher party - collecting bodies, Hampstead, depot 1 30 October 1940, ARP no. 2; 2) Rescue party cutting through to trapped people, Hampstead depot 1, memory drawing, 30 October 1940, ARP no. 3; 3) Incendiary bomb in the street, Westbere Road, NW2, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 4; 4) Stretcher bearers waiting for the mortuary van, Hampstead, Nov. 1940. ARP no. 6; 5) Scene sketched in Tube - Midnight, during London Blitz, Oct. 1940. ARP no. 7; 6) Memory drawing after the bomb, Nov. 1940. ARP no. 8; 7) Rescue party calling for the living, memory drawing, London, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 9; 8) Fordwich Road incident - taking body on stretcher over garden wall, Nov. 1940. ARP no. 10; 9) WVS Canteen giving tea, from notes made on the spot near Swiss Cottage station, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 11; 10) Recreational depot no. 1. SPs playing snooker, from notes made on the spot, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 12; 11) Another body, composite picture from rough notes taken when no one was looking, hospital in Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 13; 12) Depot lecture on incendiary bombs, memory drawing, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 18; 13) Drawing from rough notes made on the spot. RE removing DA bomb (Belsize Avenue - 11.40), Nov. 1940. ARP no. 19, 38 x 56 cm; 14) SP at work, Nov. 29 1940. ARP no. 20, all watercolour and pencil, 38 x 56 cm; 15) Smoke from fires, after raid, as seen from roof - Piccadilly Circus. Drawing started during actual raid, approx. 6 o'clock, 7 September 1940, charcoal drawing, 38 x 56 cm; 16) In the first two weeks after the declaration of the war 1939 ARP shelters were built with borough labour & civilian help, Finchley, North London, watercolour, 28 x 39 cm; 17 & 18) Two untitled drawings of sand bagging, green wash and pencil, 20 x 27 and 20 x 18 cm; 19) AC post observation, Prestatyn, 20 February 1941, 2nd STC series no. 1, watercolour and india ink, 23 x 25 cm; 20) Sand dunes and barbed wire looking towards Great Orme Head from Prestatyn, 2nd STC series no. 2, 23 February 1941, watercolour, 30 x 41 cm; 21) Rhyd Farm, North Wales, 2nd STC series no. 18, watercolour, 35 x 51 cm.Ivor William Gilmour Beddoes (1909-1981) was a British painter, sketch and storyboard artist, costume and set designer, dancer, composer and poet. He is best known for his film work, spanning more than thirty years, from Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes to Star Wars and Superman. Prior to his being called up at the end of 1940, and then serving with the Royal Signal Corps, Beddoes had been working at the Windmill Theatre in London's West End. In an autobiographical made some written shortly before his death, Beddoes wrote: 'one night in 1940 I walked off the stage to become a stretcher-bearer in the blitz on London. Then I went into the army. I never went back into the profession.' In a letter to the Artist's Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Information, (dated 10 October 1940), Beddoes explains how he came to make these remarkable drawings: '… [I] submit to you the accompanying sketches in the hope that they might be of use as documentary evidence or, in any other way that you might think useful. I am a scenic designer, and happened to be watching the raid last Saturday afternoon from the roof of a building in Piccadilly Circus. I was able to make a quick sketch of the effects of fires caused by the bombs dropped on South London, and again, later in the evening I made two sketches with colour notes of the fire, and added the colour afterwards. Should the sketches be of any use to you, I should be pleased if you would accept them and perhaps any future sketches I may make when I join the army in the very near future.'In 1999 Maggs Bros., London, issued Catalogue 1271, in which they offered the Ivor Beddoes El Alamein archive of 108 works on paper and noted, in reference to Beddoes' blitz drawings, that 'sadly, the sketches of that raid were not accepted and their whereabouts are unknown'. A copy of this catalogue is included with the lot, with Bob Wyatt's added manuscript footnote indicating that he now has these blitz drawings in his collection. NB. ARR will not apply to this lot.
Lot 281
Army Accounts and Papers. Report of the Committee Appointed by the Secretary of State for War to Enquire into Certain Questions that have Arisen with Respect to the Militia and the Present Brigade Depot System... , [C-1654], HMSO, 1877, institutional embossed stamp to title and bookplate front pastedown, contemporary half roan, soiled and worn, together with Report of the Royal Commission on the Militia and Volunteers, bound with Minutes of Evidence taken before the Royal Commission on the Militia and Volunteers, 2 volumes, all HMSO, 1904, some spotting, old library buckram, rubbed and soiled and a little frayed on joints, plus Imperial Yeomanry. Organization and Equipment, 1902, bound with numerous other contemporary short HMSO military reports, oval ink library stamps to upper margin of each title or drop-title, library buckram, rubbed and soiled, slightly frayed on joints, plus 8 further reports, all but one disbound, all folio (Qty: 11)
Lot 300
Duke (George). The Life of Major-General Worge, Colonel of the 86th Regiment of Foot, and Governor of Senegal, in Africa; with an Account of the Settlements of Senegal and Goree, 1st edition, 1844, folding lithographed map frontispiece, single-page coloured map of the island of Sanaga or St. Louis, ownership inscription to front endpaper of G. Osborn Smith, 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers (whose grandfather was a nephew of Worge), original blind-stamped red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and minor wear, a little fraying to upper joint, 8vo, together with Austin (Major Herbert H.) , With Macdonald in Uganda, a Narrative Account of the Ugandan Mutiny and Macdonald Expedition... , 1st edition, 1903, monochrome plates and folding map at end, publisher's catalogue, original maroon cloth gilt generally in bright condition, plus Hamilton (Angus) , Somaliland, 1st edition, 1911, monochrome plates after photographs, top edge gilt original maroon cloth gilt, and other African travel and military history, including Private Memoirs of Sir Rowley Sale Sale-Hill, K.C.B., Late Indian Army, privately printed, circa 1906, with presentation inscription to Robert Sale-Hill from his affectionate brother Rowley Sale-Hill, June 1906, to verso of front endpaper, The Reminscences of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Ruddiman Steuart, Late of the Indian Army, edited by his wife, privately printed, 1900, Olive Schreiner, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, Boston, 1897, with two-page autograph letter from Graham Bower to dearest Maude, in which he refers to the author's bad taste in using a photograph of hanged African natives as a frontispiece, Official History of the Operations in Somaliland, 1901-04, volume I, HMSO, 1907, etc., mostly original cloth, mainly 8vo (Qty: 19)
Lot 302
Edged Weapons Manuscript Catalogue. An archive of 51 spring-backed loose leaf volumes of original historical research and descriptions of swords, daggers, shafted weapons, etc., from 1600 to World War Two, compiled by A[rthur] N[oel] Ingram of Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, circa 1950, each volume containing between 100 and 200 leaves of typed (and some manuscript) notes and detailed and annotated pencil drawings of sword hilts, etc., numerous additional notes and occasional corrections, unpaginated but arranged systematically to include books or sections on English militia, infantry officers, heavy cavalry officer and non cavalry, bayonets, India, departmental, army pay corps, troopers, battleaxe, pike, etc., occasional printed material tipped in or inserted, leaf versos blank, ownership name of A.N. Ingram to front pastedowns of many volumes, contemporary cloth of varied colours, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (Qty: 51)NOTESA monumental, unpublished work by the seemingly unknown Arthur Noel Ingram (1889-1960). Ingram served in the 4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment during World War One, being appointed Second Lieutenant on 14 October 1914. He was appointed Lieutenant with the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 18 December 1940 and Captain on 4 February 1941. In an initialled preface dated at Ewell, 1951, Ingram describes the scope of work: 'The object of this series of books, the first complete one of its kind, is to place on record an authentic and comprehensive catalogue of the swords used by our fighting men from the year 1600 AD to the present day... the author has been engaged in research for the last twenty-five years, and no illustration or detail appears which has not been taken from the actual weapon, and where the specimen is known to exist, that has not yet been examined, a space is left vacant, as it is hoped that some at any rate will eventually come to light and enable an illustration to be made and details ascertained for publication in supplement form subsequently. Further volumes will deal with - Household, Heavy, and Light Cavalry, Artillery, Infantry, Light Troops and Light Officers, Departmental, Bayonets, Band Swords and Swords of the East India Company'. Ingram acknowledges the friends who have assisted with the project, 'Particularly to Sir James Man, who made research at the Tower of London a real pleasure, the Library of the Royal United Services Institution, G.W. Latham Esq., of Wilkinson Sword Company, and to my very great friends Captain Newgent Bosanquet, CVO, RN and S. Dudley Ward whose invaluable help has made this work possible'. In a loose typed three-page preface Ingram notes: 'This work is altogether not intended as a comprehensive treatise, but primarily as a help to those collectors who may have acquired a piece which they prize as an exquisite work of art, but have no knowledge of the date of its manufacture, or the country of its origin, also whether it is in its complete form or whether a piece of the hilt is missing or - a question that occurs frequently - whether the shortness in the blade is due to accident or design, or what type of scabbard belongs to it'.
Lot 308
Fortescue (John William). A History of the British Army, 13 volumes in 14, with 6 map volumes, mixed editions, Macmillan & Co., 1935-11-30, profusely illustrated with colour maps and plans, many folding, presentation bookplate from Major J.E. Stirling [?Seaforth Highlanders] on leaving the Regiment, March 1937, to each front pastedown, and vignette magazine portrait to front free endpaper of volume 1, original cloth in dust jackets, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (Qty: 20)
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Lot 332
Reilly (William Edward Moyses). Memorandum on the Prussian Army, in Relation to the Campaign of 1866, 1st edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1867, 13 uncoloured lithographic plates, 3 mounted albumen prints (10 x 18 cm), folding map, a little spotting, original printed wrappers, some soiling, crudely rebacked and relined, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESRare. WorldCat locates only one copy at the University of Michigan.
Lot 335
Sassoon (Siegfried). Poems from Italy. Verses written by members of the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy, July 1943-March 1944, with a Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, and an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, 1st edition, Harrap, 1945, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original crushed blue morocco with inlaid Italian flag ribbon to upper cover and gilt titling to spine, slightly rubbed and darkened, 8vo, (limited edition, 71/110 copies, signed by Sassoon), together with Counter-Attack and Other Poems, 1st edition, Heinemann, 1918, some spotting, original wrappers, slightly rubbed and soiled, upper cover detached and backstrip largely perished, plus The Road to Ruin, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1933, original printed boards, soiled and darkened, some wear to spine, both slim 8vo, plus five Sassoon autobiographical works including reprints (Qty: 8)
Lot 346
Younghusband (G.J.) Indian Frontier Warfare (Wolseley Series), 1st edition, 1898, 7 maps, including 5 folding (of which 2 are contained in pocket at rear), single-page of the Chitral Expedition 1895 printed in colour, original red cloth gilt, some marks and spine slightly faded, 8vo, together with Shakespear (Lieutenant-Colonel J.) , John Shakespear of Shadwell and his Descendants 1619-1931, 1st edition, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland Press, circa 1932, monochrome plates, folding maps, etc., some light spotting to first and last few leaves, original green cloth gilt, large 8vo, limited edition 127/140, with handwritten letter from Mary Shakespear to Major J. Buchanan Scott, dated 24 October 1948, loosely inserted, plus other similar military history of India interest, 19th and early 20th century, including [W.W. Ireland], History of the Siege of Delhi, Edinburgh, 1861, George H. Hodson, editor, Hodson of Hodson's Horse or Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India, 4th edition, 1883, Sir James Johnstone, My Experiences in Manipur and the Maga Hills, 1896, Sir George Robertson, Chitral, The Story of a Minor Siege, 1898, D.C. Phillott, editor, From Sepoy to Subadar: being the life and adventures of a native officer of the Bengal Army, 3rd edition, Calcutta, 1911, Diwan Bahadur C. Gopalan Mair, The Moplah Rebellion, 1921, Calicut, Norman Printing Bureau, 1923 (1,000 copies printed), The Tourist's Guide to Lucknow, 1905, Johnstons' New Map of India with the Roads, Railways and Military Stations Noticed in the Insurrectionary Movements, Edinburgh, 1857, etc., mostly cloth bound, mainly 8vo (Qty: 14)
Lot 347
Military Ribbons. A group of 4 albums of military ribbons, early to mid 20th century, all with tipped-in specimens and captions, two albums of ribbons of orders, decorations and medals, one album of medal ribbons of the British Empire and one large album with ribbons for Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, British Army, Commemorative Forces, Diplomatic Corps, Nursing Services, etc., various bindings and sizes (Qty: 4)
Lot 360
Sheen (John). Tyneside Irish, 24th, 25th & 26th & 27th (Service) Battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers, Pen & Sword, 2010, together with Oakes (John) , Kitchener's Lost Boys, from the Playing Fields to the Killing Fields, The History Press, 2009, plus Alexander (Jack) , McCrae's Battalion, The Story of the 16th Royal Scots, Main Street Publishing, 2003, plus Brooks (Stephen, editor) , Montgomery and the Battle of Normandy, Army Records Society, 2008, all original cloth in dust jackets, signed, plus other similar largely First World War modern publications, publishers Include Pen & Sword, Leo Cooper, etc., generally VG/fine (Qty: 3 shelves)
Lot 362
Rees (L. E. Ruutz). A Personal Narrative of the Seige of Lucknow from its Commencement to its Relief by Sir Colin Campbell, second edition, 1858, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding plan of Lucknow, original blind stamped orange cloth, rubbed and some marks, rebacked with original spine laid down, 8vo, together with Hay (Sydney) , Historic Lucknow, first edition, Lucknow, Pioneer Press, 1939 , monochrome woodcut illustrations, ownership inscription to verso of half-title, original red cloth in dust jacket, some marks and light soiling, 4to, plus Misra (Anand Saurp) , Nana Shaeb Peshwa and The Fight for Freedom, Lucknow, 1961 , colour portrait and monochrome plates and illustrations, contemporary quarter calf with dust jacket, rubbed and market, 4to and other Indian military history, all 19th and 20th century, including Major-General J.T. Harris, "China Jim" Being Incidents and Adventures in the Life of an Indian Mutiny Veteran, 1912, Charles John Griffiths, A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi, 1910, a bound volume of papers and proceedings related to the Mahratta Booty, and the claims of the Army of the Deccan, circa 1820-25, several parts bound in 1 pagination erratic, contemporary diced dark blue calf, somewhat worn, 4to, the majority of volumes bound in original cloth, mainly 8vo (approx 70 volumes) (Qty: 3 shelves)
Lot 366
Marder (Arthur J). From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919, 5 volumes, mixed editions, Oxford University Press, 1961-78, monochromed illustrations after photographs, light ex library stamps, original cloth in dust jackets (except 4th volume without dust jackets), together with Brigadier General Sir Edmonds (Brigadier General Sir James), The Memoirs of Sir James Edmonds, edited by Ian F. Beckett. first edition, Tom Donovan Editions, 2013, original dust jacket with slip case, limited edition 122/300, plus other First World War history and memoirs including Andrew Syk, The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917, Army Records Society, 2012, Hugh Granville White, War Amongst the Clouds, My Flying Experiences during World War I, first edition, grub street 2019, etc, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, generally g/vg, (approximately 80 volumes) (Qty: 3 shelves)
Lot 368
Baker (Kenneth). George Washington's Illustrious War, first edition, grub street, 2009, numerous colour and some monochromed plates and illustrations, original pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, 4to, VG, together with Graham (Gerald S.) , The China Station, War and Diplomacy, 1830-1860, Oxford University Press, 1978, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus Tritton (Alan), When the Tiger Fought the Thistle, The Tragedy of William Bailey of the Madras Army, first edition, 2013 , original cloth in dust jacket, and other miscellaneous military history, all 20th century publications, including Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brian and Allan Mallinson fiction, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, mainly 8vo (approximately 70 volumes) (Qty: 3 shelves)
Lot 56
* Brackley (Herbert, 1894-1948). A large collection of ephemera, including an Imperial Airways Pilot's Handbook and General Instructions 1924 , reprinted Ducimus Books 1974, octavo, transcripts for Brackles Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation compiled by Frida H. Brackley, an attaché case containing 4 of Brackley's passports, address book kept by Brackley, many names and addresses of senior officers some with additional comments for example Lt. J.L. Eastward, Texas "killed in aeroplane in U.S.", letters to Brackley including one from Major Eric Henry Philip Blundell Ince of the Royal Army Service Corps dated 6 May 1917 congratulating Brackley on his Distinguished Service Cross and other items (Qty: 2 cartons )
Lot 1489
Large Collection of Vintage Cigarette Cards from Will's, Player's & Ogden's. Housed in an album, this collection contains cards depicting Cricketers, Footballers, First Aid, Roses, Flags of the Empire, English period costume, Cinema Stars, Household Hints, Garden Life, Uniforms of the Territorial Army, Children of All Nations, Dogs, Ship's Badges, Lucky Charms, Cries of London, and Dirt Track Riders. Large collection, all housed in an album. Please see photographs.
Lot 603
A collection of vintage 20th Century Cigarette packets within plastic sleeves containing many different varieties to include Blue Book Mixed, Golden Pelican, Marsuma, Golden Sword, Army & Navy Gold Flake,Yanx, Cavenders Garrison, Spinet, Four Aces, Matador, Ameer,Players Anchor, Sweet Afton, Sarony,Westwood Ho, Airmen, Chief Whip, Paymaster, Flask, Ark Royal, Merrymans, Masters, Golden Cross and many many more over three albums.
Lot 143
An International Watch Company IWC Mark X British Army waterproof wristwatch, with plain crown, 3cm Dia. dial with Arabic numerals, on a black ground marked IWC, in an oval surround, with crow's foot and subsidiary second hand, with partial green pointers and marked WWW with crow's foot and numbered M16911 to the back, probably 1945, with Fixo-Flex bracelet.
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