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Lot 49
Marlborough (Duke of).- Exact Journal (An) of the Actions of the Allies this last Summers Campaign in Flanders: under the Command of His Excellency the Duke of Marlborough. Sent over last Post by a Collonel in the Army, 8pp. (uncut folded sheet), a little browned and soiled, hole to final leaf where subsequently folded with loss of a few letters, Not in British Library, 8vo, J.Nutt, 1703.⁂ Rare; ESTC lists only one location (Houghton Library at Harvard), none in UK, but COPAC records printed copies at Leicester University and the National Library of Scotland.
Lot 107
Cookery.- Soyer (Alexis) Soyer's Culinary Campaign, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title (misbound), 7 plates, and illustrations, advertisement f. at end, portrait spotted and offsetting onto to title, additional title little spotted, small repair to lower blank corner of advrtisment f., contemporary half morocco, spine gilt (with a number 7 at head of spine),[Bitting p.444; Cagle 1008], G. Routledge & Co.,1857; and a sixth edition of the Gastronomic Regenerator, 1849, 12mo & 8vo (2)⁂ 'Soyer's account of conditions in the Crimea is second to none. Finding the soldiery too under-nourished to withstand disease, let alone battle, he set out to transform army supply, diet, cookery, kitchen equipment and hospital supplies with verve and genius, effecting what was to be a revolution in institutional catering. Florence Nightingale, never given to praise, wrote that without him her work would have been in vain.' (John LyleG. Routledge & Co., 1857.
Lot 35
Siege of Mafeking.- Powell (Robert Baden-, first Baron Baden-Powell, army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, 1857-1941) After Order by Colonel R.S.S. Baden-Powell, Commanding Frontier Force... It is with great regret that the Colonel... has to announce the death this day from a bullet wound of Captain Raymond Girdwood, typescript signed, foxed and browned, folds, laid down on card, folio, Mafeking, Tuesday 13th February 1900; and 4 others related, including 3 TLs.s. from Olave Baden-Powell, v.s., v.d. (5).
Lot 72
A tortoiseshell and white metal mounted magnifying glass, a white metal and enamelled lipstick holder with George VI Royal Engineers cipher and a white metal Royal Army Service Corps marcasite set sweetheart brooch inscribed 'Silver' to reverse. Additional InformationTortoiseshell magnifying glass with some chips, losses, scratches and dents to the white metal framing glass, lipstick holder with some scratches and marks to the enamel, sweetheart brooch missing one marcasite, further general wear throughout.
Lot 626
Stamps - a good album of largely vintage and antique pre-decimal stamps. All mint issues and unused, Postage Due, Victorian, Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI, and some QEII. Includes many mint blocks, Victorian ' Army Official ' stamps, Jubilee issues, England World Cup, and many others. Wonderful collection of mint issues.
Lot 159
1957/58 Manchester Utd, a collection of 30 home football programmes, 21 League (complete set), 3 FA Cup, Ipswich, WBA, Sheffield Wednesday (team line up blank, excellent condition), 1 FA Charity Shield v Aston Villa, 4 European (Shamrock Rovers, Dukla Prague, Red Star Belgrade, AC Milan), 1 Friendly (The Army)
Lot 5
RENNELL MAJOR. The Marches of the British Armies in the Peninsula of India during the Campaigns of 1790 & 1791. Fldg. eng. map & 3 fldg. eng. diags. Calf. 1792; also 2 vols. only of (Robert Orme), A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Hindostan from the Year MDCCXLV, vol. 1 complete with Books I to V & 10 fldg. & other eng. maps as called for, vol. 2 containing Books X to XIII & 9 fldg. & other eng. maps, quarto, mottled calf, 1763 & 1778. (3). Condition report:Rennell - Slight wear to calf and slight splitting to top of spine. Some old repairs to back board. Slight splitting to inside front and back boards. Browned end papers, title and first few pages of text. Text generally good and clean. Slightly undulate paper Folding map good with v. small tear where bound in and slight off setting/v. light foxing. Folding plans of army lines good, v. slight browning, as images. Ormes. Vol. 1 1763 - Rebacked with original boards.Foxing/browning throughout. Maps/plates as called for. Small hole in Plan of Country near Trichinapoly. Binding sound.Ormes Vol. 2 1778 - Later edition? Vol 2, 1st vol. plate list does not correspond with Vol. 1 present. Text generally cleaner than Vol.1 but still foxing and browning throughout.Small tear Carnatic Map.Small tear Madras.Small tear Plan of Fort St. George.Small tear Carangoly.Small tear Permacoil.
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