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Military History: France, Germany, Great Britain
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1 DER DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHE KRIEG, 1870-71. Redigirt von der Kriegsgeschichtlichen Abtheilung des Großen [Grossen] Generalstabes. Zweiter Theil: Geschichte des Krieges gegen die Republik. Berlin, Mittler, 1880-81.
Three parts (17-19) in one volume. Royal 8vo. Pp. 937-1030, 445-474; title, 1031-1178, 475-616; title, 1179-1384, 617-778. Plus a number of lithographed single- and double-page maps, printed on different paper, bound in. With letterpress maps to the text. Footnotes, appendices. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed boards, with original printed covers laid down. Very good condition. (Titles of 2 last parts inscribed in neat contemporary hand on cover.)
First edition.
€ 65 --
2 DEUTSCHLAND IN WAFFEN. NO IMPRINT, (ca. 1890).Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Plus 20 finely printed colour plates on thick paper. Decorative initials. Set in Gothic type in double columns. Hardcover, original olive green quarter cloth and matching paper covered boards (corners rubbed), with large colour plate laid-down onto upper board; endpapers decorated with golden Imperial Eagle set within decorative border. In a very good condition. (Short inscription to front flyleaf.) A handsome copy.
A very handsome collection of plates after original works by some of the leading German military artists of the time.
€ 100 --
3 FELDDIENST-ORDNUNG. BERLIN, Mittler, 1900.Small octavo. Pp. 230, 18. Plus a suite of 6 (chromo) lithograph plates, some of which heightened with gold, depicting various military standards and flags, 3 folding plans (two of which in colour) i.e. “Zeiteintheilung für die grosseren Truppenübungen des a-ten Armeekorps,” “Zeiteintheilung für die besonderen Kavallerie-Uebungen in Bezirk des b-ten Armee-Korps,” and “Parade-Aufstellung des a-ten Armeekorps.” With 5 full-page line-drawn plans showing schematic order of various military emplacements. Notes, bibliography, index. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, tail of spine shelf-marked in gilt. Trimmed. In a very good condition (spine a bit faded and rubbed with minor worming trace). Nice copy indeed, internally crisp.
- - Field Service Regulations of the German Army.
€ 150 --
4 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
5 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
6 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
7 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (minor marginal imperfection; single brown spot.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
8 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
9 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 23 x 21 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
10 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Finely engraved attractive banner at top. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
11 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
12 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
13 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
14 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Finely engraved attractive banner at top. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
15 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (minor imperfections; neat paper repair on verso.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
16 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (marginal split with paper repair on verso.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
17 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
18 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
19 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
20 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
21 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
22 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
23 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
24 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
25 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (perhaps a minor marginal imperfection; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
26 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
27 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
28 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
29 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
30 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
31 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
32 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good. (some marginal yellowing; neat paper repairs on verso; image fine.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
33 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
34 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
35 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
36 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (minor marginal imperfection; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
37 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (marginal imperfections.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
38 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
39 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
40 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 15 x 21 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
41 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Finely engraved attractive banner at top. Printed on verso. Fine (possible minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
42 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
43 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
44 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (minor marginal imperfection.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
45 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (marginal imperfection.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
46 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
47 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
48 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (very minor marginal imperfections; image flawless.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
49 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
50 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (marginal imperfections).
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
51 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (marginal imperfections).
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
52 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
53 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Very good (small marginal imperfection).
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 18 --
54 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
55 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
56 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (minor marginal imperfection.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
57 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 30 x 22 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine (minor marginal imperfection.)
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
58 [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCHER KRIEG; ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES 1870/71] [PRINT]. STUTTGART, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1871).Original single-sheet engraving. Overall size ca. 22 x 30 cm; good margins. Bearing at foot a legend set in Gothic type. Printed on verso. Fine.
During the seven months of the war, dramatic sketches of the battlefields and horrifying images of life under fire appeared in print, mostly in periodicals and special publications. This print is a fine example of a scarce survivor. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 22 --
59 LA GUERRE D’ITALIE. RÉCIT HEBDOMADAIRE ILLUSTRÉ. SUPPLÉMENT AU NO. 218-231 DU JOURNAL POUR TOUS. ISSUES 1-26 [COMPLETE]. PARIS, Lahure, 1859.26 issues bound in one volume. Quarto. paginated consecutively. Pp. 208. Original engraved front page to each issue. Illustrated throughout with original engravings and maps, often full- or double-page. Of exceptional beauty are the lithographs by Doré, printed here by Gillot. Set in triple columns. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt; sprinkled edges. Handsome contemporary bookplate. In fine condition. (Minor sporadic foxing.) Excellent copy, very well preserved.
- - First edition. During the Italian “Risorgimento”, or rebirth, which occurred between the years 1859 and 1861, Italy evolved from a fragmented group of kingdoms, dominated by Austria, into a unified member of the European community. The decisive Austrian defeat was at Solferino, on June 24, 1859. Published weekly, the “Journal pour tous” covered the events as folding, adding analysis, repports from the battlefields, accompanied by the beautiful visual representation of the war. The wood engravings are by various draughtsmen after the works of Philippoteaux, Bertall, Le Tellier, FoulquIier, and others. The Doré lithographs are the result of a complicated and delicate process, now obsolete, which was invented in the early 1850’s by Firmin Gillot. Known as Gillotage, or Gillotype, the process turned a lithographic drawing into a relief plate. Employing both planographic and relief methods, the process remained purely manual, involving no photography. The lithograph was transferred to zinc and then etched, in an extremely laborious process, to make a metal relief block from which the final print was made. - - Réunion complète des 26 livraisons parues du 4 juin au 10 septembre 1859. Premier tirage des nombreuses gravures sur bois in-texte, à pleine et à double page. A rather scarce survivor of a wonderfully illustrated publication in instalments.
€ 535 --
60 LA GUERRE D’ITALIE. RÉCIT HEBDOMADAIRE ILLUSTRÉ. SUPPLÉMENT AU NO. 218-231 DU JOURNAL POUR TOUS. ISSUES 1-26 [COMPLETE]. PARIS, Lahure, 1859.Twenty-six issues bound in one volume. Quarto. Paginated consecutively. Pp. 208. Retaining the original engraved front-page of each issue. Illustrated throughout with original engravings and maps, often full- or double-page. Of exceptional beauty are the lithographs by Doré, printed here by Gillot. Set in triple columns. Hardcover, contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, pebble-grained spine lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; green ribbon marker. In a very good condition (foxed as usual).
- - First edition. During the Italian “Risorgimento”, or rebirth, which occurred between the years 1859 and 1861, Italy evolved from a fragmented group of kingdoms, dominated by Austria, into a unified member of the European community. The decisive Austrian defeat was at Solferino, on June 24, 1859. Published weekly, the “Journal pour tous” covered the events as folding, adding analysis, repports from the battlefields, accompanied by the beautiful visual representation of the war. The wood engravings are by various draughtsmen after the works of Philippoteaux, Bertall, Le Tellier, FoulquIier, and others. The Doré lithographs are the result of a complicated and delicate process, now obsolete, which was invented in the early 1850’s by Firmin Gillot. Known as Gillotage, or Gillotype, the process turned a lithographic drawing into a relief plate. Employing both planographic and relief methods, the process remained purely manual, involving no photography. The lithograph was transferred to zinc and then etched, in an extremely laborious process, to make a metal relief block from which the final print was made. [Réunion complète des 26 livraisons parues du 4 juin au 10 septembre 1859. Premier tirage des nombreuses gravures sur bois in-texte, à pleine et à double page]. A scarce survivor of a beautifully illustrated publication in instalments. No record in OCLC worldwide. KVK lists just one copy, in IDS Basel. Not in the National Library of France nor in Union Catalog Italy.
€ 650 --
61 LE MILITAIRE. JOURNAL MILITAIRE UNIVERSEL ÉCONOMIQUE. PREMIÈRE ANNÉE. LA HAYE, Héritiers Doorman, 1843.Octavo. Pp. 955, 11. Tables. Hardcover, contemporary half calf and marbled boards. In about fine condition internally (old stamps). Binding is poor, spine gone, boards weak. A rather crisp interior.
First edition. First year of this important journal on military economy.
€ 220 --
62 NAVY & ARMY ILLUSTRATED. A MAGAZINE DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE DEFENSIVE SERVICES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE - A PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE WORLD’S NEWS. VOLUMES X-XIV, First Series, Numbers 164-293. Plus All Special Number Issues. ADDED: Volume I, New Series, Numbers 1-10. [6 VOLUMES]. London, Hudson & Kearns; Newnes, 1900-03; 1914.6 volumes. Folio. Pp. 648; 640; 640; 648; 648; 270. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous full-page photo-plates, smaller plates, fine artwork, and text illustrations. Indices (lack two leaves). Hardcover, uniformly bound in olive-green cloth with original illustrated gilt covers and spines, heightened with red dye added by hand, laid-down. In fine condition. Excellent set in exceptionally fine state of preservation.
- - First edition. Five volumes of the First Series, including all Special Number issues: Volume X, 164-189; Volume XI, 190-215; Volume XII, 216-241; Volume XIII, 242-267; Volume XIV, 268-293. ADDED: New Series, Volume I, 1-10, this bound in three-quarters cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt.
€ 585 --
63 NAVY & ARMY ILLUSTRATED. A MAGAZINE DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE DEFENSIVE SERVICES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. VOLUME XV, First Series, Numbers 294-321. London, Hudson & Kearns; Newnes, 1902-03.Folio. Pp. 728. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous full-page photo-plates, smaller plates, fine artwork, and text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in olive-green cloth with original illustrated gilt covers and spines, heightened with red dye added by hand, laid-down. In fine condition. Excellent copy in exceptionally fine state of preservation.
- - First edition. Volume XV, 294-321.
€ 125 --
64 A SHIPBUILDING HISTORY, 1750-1932. London, Stephen, 1932.Crown quarto. Pp. xl, 212, xli-lxxxvii. Frontispiece, plates, head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials. Numerous illustrated advertisements. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s navy blue cloth, bit sunned, gilt lettered and decorated, clipped corner to free endpaper, old institutional stamp, else fine (some foxing).
- - First edition.
€ 35 --
65 WATERLOO. HISTOIRE DE LA BATAILLE, monuments, épisodes / History of the Battle, Monuments, Episodes / Geschiedenis van den slag, gedenksteenen, wapenfeiten. Bruxelles, Albert; Phototypie A. Dohmen, n.d.Oblong octavo. Pp. 2. Plus 10 tinted collotype plates, each with facing semitransparent overlay, printed with explanatory captions. Each plate with an inset or composed of multiple images. With one full-page plan of order of battle. In the original pictorial wrappers, bit soiled and stained. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Text and captions in French, English, Dutch. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. Very scarce.
€ 120 --
66 A NEAR OBSERVOR [JOHN BOOTH; CHARLOTTE ANNE EATON]. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, containing the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, With Circumstantial details, Relative to the Battle, From a Variety of Authentic and Original Sources, With Relative Official Documents, Forming an Historical Record of the Operations in the Campaign of the Netherlands, 1815(...) Illustrated by a Panoramic Sketch of the Field of Battle, and a Plan of the Position at Waterloo, and Movements, With a General Plan of the Campaign. London, Printed for John Booth; T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, & J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh, 1816.Two parts in one volume. Crown quarto. Pp. (iv), lxxxvi; (ii) verso blank, 196, (2) biography of Wellington, (4) Publisher’s catalogue (one gathering loose). Plus hand-coloured, engraved folding plan, “A Sketch of the Battle of Waterloo Fought Sunday, June 18, 1815” as frontispiece. Plus 2 very large, hand-coloured etched plates, forming together a “Panoramic Sketch of the Battle of Waterloo”. Plus hand-coloured, engraved folding “Plan of the Operations of the Campaign in the Netherlands” (short tear in blank margin, well away from image).
Lists of casualties, regiments, etc.; footnotes. Hardcover, bound in the original plain boards, these worn, chipped in places, original extended title-label and spine-label laid-down. A very good, untrimmed copy in the original state. Excellent interior, complete with all plates in fine condition.- - Eighth edition. Edited by John Booth (fl. 1800-1840); part of the text, namely the narrative, is attributed to Charlotte Anne Eaton (1788-1859); the panoramic sketch is attributed to Jane Waldie (fl. ca. 1792-1826). Cf. British Library Catalogue. The book went through several editions and although some were liberally described by the publisher as “enlarged”, “improved”, or “corrected”, the variation in the 5th and 6th edition, for example, is merely the running folio on the pages of the latter. - - Provenance: Colonel Boreel des Hussards Hollandais’ copy, with his coat-of-arms bookplate. It incorporates a lion passant guardant, a chevron between three bugle horns stringed, and a small shield (palm) with underneath the initials “BvH” (i.e. “Boreel van Hussaren”).
€ 420 --
67 ALLMAYER-BECK, Joh. Christoph, and Erich Lessing. Das Heer unter dem Doppeladler. Habsburgs Armeen 1718-1848. München, Bertelsmann, 1981.AS NEW. Royal quarto. Pp. 261. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations. Appendix, bibliography, index. Set in double columns. Printed on fine paper. Hardcover, original decorated buckram, with pictorial dust-jacket. Preserved in original slipcase. In mint condition. Bright copy, practically unused. Excellent.
- - First edition. Beautifully illustrated and produced standard work.
€ 120 --
68 ALLMAYER-BECK, Joh. Christoph, and [Erich] Lessing. Die K.(u.)K.-Armee, 1848-1914. [K. (u.) K.; K.u.K.; K. u. K]. München, Bertelsmann, 1974.Royal 4to. Pp. 255. Tables, indices. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations. Hardcover, original decorated buckram, with pictorial dust-jacket (small shelf label). Preserved in original slipcase. In a fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent, bright copy, practically unused.
First edition. Loosely inserted a 4-page colour publisher’s announcement of this book and related ephemera (colour laser or Xerox prints of uniforms, etc.)
€ 35 --
69 ALLMAYER-BECK, Joh. Christoph, and Erich Lessing. Die kaiserlichen Kriegsvölker: Von Maximilian I. bis Prinz Eugen, 1479-1718. München, Bertelsmann, 1978.Royal 4to. Pp. 255. Bibliography, index. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations. Endpaper maps. Hardcover, original decorated buckram, with pictorial dust-jacket (this very good; small shelf label). In a fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
First edition.
€ 45 --
70 ALLMAYER-BECK, Joh. Christoph, and Erich Lessing. Die kaiserlichen Kriegsvölker: Von Maximilian I. bis Prinz Eugen, 1479-1718. München, Bertelsmann, 1978.AS NEW. Royal quarto. Pp. 255. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations. Endpaper maps. Appendix, index. Printed on fine paper. Hardcover, original decorated buckram, with pictorial dust-jacket. Preserved in original slipcase. In mint condition. Bright copy, practically unused. Excellent.
- - First edition. Beautifully illustrated and produced standard work.
€ 75 --
71 AMBERT, Joachim. Esquisses historiques, psychologiques et critiques de l’Armée Française. Bruxelles, Librairie militaire de J. -B. Petit, 1841.Crown quarto. Pp. 365. Plus 16 exquisitely hand-coloured lithograph plates by Charles Aubry, each within decorative hand-tinted frame, embodying numerous military motifs. Handsome device to title-page. Half-title, dedication leaf. Footnotes, index (surplus indexing penned-out). Set in double columns. Hardcover, contemporary fine shagreen over marbled boards, spine with five raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, neat contemporary shelf label to foot. Marbled endpapers,old institutional stamps. In fine condition (text bit foxed, boards bit rubbed along edges). Excellent copy, well preserved.
- - New edition. The charming plates here are coloured by contemporary hand with rich, dense dyes, more opaque than transparent, and are delicately heightened with fine touches of shellac, adding richness and elegance to the darker tones. Joachim Marie Jean Jacques Alexandre Jules Ambert (1804-1890), son of a General, became a soldier himself, serving from 1824 until 1870, rising to become a Dragoon officer, later a General of the Cavalry. With a handsome contemporary bookplate.
€ 480 --
72 ATTLMAYR, Ferdinand Ritter von. [Eduard Edler v. Friedenfels, Redaction Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens]. Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens. Volume XXV, Parts I-VI. [BOUND WITH:] Der Krieg Österreichs in der Adria im Jahre 1866. Seekriegsgeschichtliche Studie. Pola, Wien, Gerold’s Sohn, Hydrographisches Amte Marine-Bibliothek, 1896-97.Six parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Parts I, II, V, VI numbered consecutively: Pp. 96; 97-192; 193-312; 313-416. Plus folding maps, charts, and tables printed on different paper, some with additional colour, bound in. Text illustrations, some full-page, photo plates, figures, tables. Footnotes, bibliographies, indices, appendices. Parts III-IV published as a book and numbered separately: (2), title-page, dedication, (4), 206, 15, (3). With fine aquatint photogravure (heliogravure) portrait frontispiece plate. Plus 3 other fine aquatint photogravure portrait plates, one of which is a rare composite of 32 portraits, printed on heavy handmade paper within plate mark and protected by tissue guards. Plus one splendid double-page aquatint photogravure plate, depicting the sinking of the ironclad frigate “Re d’Italia”, and 13 collotype (lichtdruck) and aquatint photogravure plates of naval scenes. With 5 maps and 11 figures to the text. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt direct between two gilt rules. In about fine condition. (Old institutional stamps.) Excellent copy indeed.
- - First edition. The regular issues of this important naval publication cover various aspects of naval studies and events of the period. There are essays on navigation, ballistics with interesting photographs of damage assessment, ship engineering, expeditions, etc., accompanied by fine drawings, maps, etc. “Der Krieg Österreichs in der Adria im Jahre 1866” was published separately on commission of the Austrian k. u. k. Reichs-Kriegs-Ministeriums (Marine-Section), and bound in. It is exemplary in its detail and superb illustrations. Exceedingly scarce. No copy in the Nautische Bibliothek online.
€ 875 --
73 BARRAL, Georges. L’Épopée de Waterloo. Narration nouvelle des Cent Jours et de la campagne de Belgique en 1815 composée d’après les documents inédits et les souvenirs de mes deux grands-pères, officiers de la Grande Armée, combattants de Waterloo. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, (1895).Octavo. Pp. 328. Frontispiece with facing tissue guard, map. Half title, publisher’s ads, appendix. Hardcover, bound in original publisher’s limp blue grain morocco, abraded, gilt illustration to upper board repeating frontispiece motif, spine gilt, decorative endpapers, round edges. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Collection nouvelle de mémoires militaires. Barral published a year later his “Itinéraire illustré de l’épopée de Waterloo” (Flammarion, 1896). From the library of the late H. J. Wijsman, with his handsome bookplate, incorporating the header “1815”, the Napoleonic Royal Seal, and a miniature shadow-picture of a battalion led to battle by a mounted Napoleon. Overall a lovely copy.
€ 220 --
74 BARTHORP, Michael. War on the Nile: Britain, Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1898. London, Blandford, 1987.Crown quarto. Pp. 190. Illustrated throughout. Original stiff wrappers. AS NEW.
€ 18 --
75 BAS, F. de; Comte J. de T’serclaes de Wommerson. La campagne de 1815 aux Pays-Bas d’après les rapports officiels néerlandais. I: Quatre-Bras; II: Waterloo; III: Annexes et notes. [THREE VOLUMES]. Bruxelles, Albert Dewit, 1908-09.Three volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xxxii, 548, plus frontispiece with facing semitransparent overlay, printed with image outline, legend, and captions; vi, 495, plus frontispiece, errata, indices; xi, 577, plus 14, mostly large, folding maps and plans tipped-in at end, some in colour, one pictorial. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spines gilt, sprinkled edges. In a very fine condition. Excellent set.
- - First edition.
€ 750 --
76 BAS, W. G. de. (J. H. Kernkamp). Quatre-bras en Waterloo. Voorspel en geschiedenis der krijgsbedrijven van 15 tot en met 18 juni 1815. (Patria, Vaderlandsche cultuurgeschiedenis in monografieën XVIII). Amsterdam, Van kampen, 1939.Octavo. Pp. 170. Plus 4 folding maps bound at end, 13 plates and text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full peach cloth, decorated cover, gilt lettering to spine, with dust-jacket (this very good). In fine condition.
- - First edition.
€ 75 --
77 BAUNARD, Mgr. Le général de Sonis. D’après ses papiers et sa correspondance. Paris, Poussielgue, 1894.Octavo. Pp. xv, 576. Aquatint heliogravure frontispiece plate of fine quality. Appendix. Hardcover, contemporary half calf, spine gilt (bit rubbed). Cloth inner hinges. In a very good condition. (Old institutional stamps; some spotting.) Nice copy.
Quarante-deuxième édition, revue et augmentée.
€ 49 --
78 BERNARD, Henri. La campagne de 1815 en Belgique, ou la faillite de la liaison et des transmissions. I: Text; II: Maps. [TWO VOLUMES]. Bruxelles, Imprimerie Médicale et Scientifique, 1954.Two volumes. Crown quarto. Text Volume: Pp. 82; Map Volume: 18 maps, printed on 10 large folding sheets, including Appendix, placed in original printed portfolio. Most maps with expert annotations and markings in coloured pencils, representing troop positions and advance in time, some with wear, some laid-down on paper for support, still complete and representable. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Provenance: From the collection of the late Dr. Ir. R. Houwink, of Wassenaar, with his old ownership stamp to each cover. Scarce. KVK lists copies in Union Catalog Italy, Library of Congress, Union Catalog of Canada, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and King’s College London only.
€ 300 --
79 BERNHARDI, Friedrich von. Denkwürdigkeiten aus meinem Leben. Berlin, Mittler, 1927.Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 541, (3) publisher’s ads. Index. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, with original printed cover laid down (bit rubbed), shelf label to spine. In a very good condition. (Old military stamps.) Fine copy.
First edition.
€ 45 --
80 BERTHIER, Marechal; Comte Reynier. Campagne d’Égypte. I: Mémoires du Maréchal Berthier, Prince de Neuchatel et de Wagram, Major-Général des Armées Françaises; II: Mémoires du Comte Reynier, Général de division. (Mémoires des Contemporains). [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Baudouin, 1827.Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xix, 436; xvi, 412, plus 3 large folding tables bound at end. Both half-title leaves present. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary navy blue boards, these worn in places, spines gilt. Foxed and spotted, else a very good set.
- - First edition. Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753-1815); Jean Louis Ébenezer, Count Reynier (1771-1814). In the first volume, Berthier’s narrative, which ended with the battle of Aboukir, has been carried on to the battle of Heliopolis by the editor (cf. Avertissement de l’editeur). The second volume reprints Reynier’s “De l’Egypte après la bataille de Héliopolis”, (Paris, 1802,), which was suppressed by Napoleon. Rare. KVK locates only 2 copies, in British Library and in Swiss National Library. OCLC lists incomplete sets and microform only. Not in French Union Catalog nor National Library of France. Provenance: From the private library of the late Mr [Master of Laws] A. Telders, with his most handsome bookplate in each volume. In 1895 Telders was Council Lord of Justice in the Dutch Supreme Court, later Vice President. Knight in the Order of the Nederlandse Leeuw. Rare complete set, in original binding, with excellent provenance.
€ 1800 --
81 BISMARCK, Fürst Otto v. Erinnerung und Gedante. Gedanten und Erinnerungen von Otto Fürst von Bismarck, Dritter Band. Stuttgart & Berlin, Gotta, 1921.Octavo. Pp. xvi, 207, (4) publisher’s ads. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s half cloth and paper covered boards, printed in green, shelf label, decorated spine bit worn, old institutional stamps. A very good copy.
- - First edition, third volume.
€ 80 --
82 BLECKWENN, Hans. Unter dem [Preussen] Preußen-Adler: Das brandenburgisch-preußische Heer, 1640-1807. München, Bertelsmann, 1978.Royal 4to. Pp. 254, (1) publisher’s ad. Appendix. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations. Endpaper maps. Hardcover, original buckram, with pictorial dust-jacket (small shelf label). Preserved in original slipcase. As new. Bright copy, practically unused. Excellent.
First edition. For the history of the Prussian army from 1807 until 1914, search our stock for the accompanied volume: “Mit Gott für König und Vaterland: Das preußische Heer, 1807-1914” by Georg Ortenburg, published by Bertelsmann in 1979.
€ 80 --
83 BLECKWENN, Hans. Unter dem [Preussen] Preußen-Adler: Das brandenburgisch-preußische Heer, 1640-1807. München, Bertelsmann, 1978.AS NEW. Royal quarto. Pp. 254, (1) publisher’s ad. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations. Endpaper maps. Appendix, index. Printed on fine paper. Hardcover, original buckram, with pictorial dust-jacket. Preserved in original slipcase. In mint condition. Bright copy, practically unused. Excellent.
- - First edition. Beautifully illustrated and produced standard work.
€ 70 --
84 BLOND, Georges. La Grande Armée 1804-1815. Paris, France Loisirs (Robert Laffont), 1979.AS NEW. Royal octavo. Pp. 308. Plates, maps. Appendices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with pictorial dust-jacket (this about very good). Book is a very fine copy in mint, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
€ 25 --
85 BLUMENTHAL, Albrecht Graf von. Tagebücher des Generalfeldmarschalls Graf von Blumenthal, aus den Jahren 1866 und 1870/1871. Stuttgart, Cotta’sche Buchhandlung Nachfolge, 1902.Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 286, (2) publisher’s ads. Collotype frontispiece portrait. Plus one photo-plate and four-page facsimile letter tipped-in at rear. Footnotes. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original sea-green cloth, gilt lettered and decorated, spine gilt. Chalked brown endpapers, sprinkled edges, cloth ribbon marker. In a very good condition. (Tissue guards spotted; minor splits to spine head.) Nice copy.
First edition. Loosely inserted is a half-page clip from “Der Mecklenburger Nachrichten” of January 5, 1902, with a very large article about the “Tagebücher...”
€ 79 --
86 BOUTOURLIN, Colonel. Histoire militaire de la campagne de Russie en 1812. I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Anselin et Pochard, & Petersbourg, Saint Florent, 1824.Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. x, 392; 459. Both half-titles present. Hardcover, uniformly bound in half grain calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments between gilt tooled raised bands, gilt fleuron clusters in 1st, 3rd, and 5th compartments, gilt lettering direct in remainder, blind tooled sides, marbled endpapers, each with a small ownership paper label, marbled edges, neat contemporary inscription to first fly leaf, light sporadic foxing due to stock quality. In fine condition, soft pencil underlining throughout. A very handsome set, well preserved and in attractive binding, generally excellent.
- - First edition. Colonel Dmitrij Petrovic Buturlin (Boutourlin), (1790-1849), aide-de-camp to Emperor Alexander of Russia.
€ 900 --
87 BR., V** C** de, témoin oculaire. [Constant Rebecque de Villars, Baron de]. Campagne des Autrichiens contre Murat en 1815, précédée d’un coup d’oeil sur les négociations secrètes qui eurent lieu a Naples depuis la paix de Paris, 1814 jusqu’au commencement des hostilités; des détails sur la conjuration de Milan, du 25 avril 1815 et sur le meurtre du ministre Prina; suivie d’une notice historique sur la vie et la mort de Joachim Murat; d’une description du théatre de la guerre, et de ce que cette partie de l’Italie offre de plus intéressant sous le rapport de l’histoire naturelle, des beaux-arts et de l’antiquité. I: Tome premier; II: Tome second. [TWO VOLUMES IN ONE]. Bruxelles, Wahlen, 1821.Two volumes bound in one. Royal octavo. Pp. v (verso blank), 229 (verso blank); 294. Two title-pages, two half-titles present, contemporary calligraphic signature to verso of first. Plus folding “Ordre de bataille” and 3 large, finely printed folding lithograph maps, on thick paper (split to fold in the smallest). Shoulder notes. Hardcover, bound in half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather worn. In a very good condition, occasionally foxed or age toned due to stock quality, inner hinges cracked. Generally fine interior, with the handsome maps preserved crisp and fresh.
- - First edition. Rare. The mysterious eyewitness V. C. de Br. is believed to be Guillaume (“Willem”) Anne, Baron Constant Rebecque de Villars (1750-1838), General of Infantry in the Dutch army and Commander of the Militaire Willemsorde. “Resté anonyme pour J. Tulard, comme pour Davois (1, 133) et Kircheisen (I, 351), la découverte de l’auteur a été possible grâce à une note figurant sur la page de titre du premier tome et à la copie reliée in fine de deux lettres autographes, aux chiffres et adressées en 1821 au Baron Constant. L’une est écrite par le général comte de Neipperg, félicitant l’auteur pour son ‘ouvrage militaire de beaucoup de mérite, tel qu’on désirerait que tous fussent écrits, et pour l’amour de la vérité, et la précision, et la clarté du style’, demandant en outre de lui expédier quelques exemplaires à l’État-major basé à Milan. La seconde lettre est du feld-marechal baron Bianchi, qui, tout en louant l’auteur pour son ouvrage, émet toutefois des réserves quant aux pages 40 et suivantes des Campagnes à propos de la conduite du baron Frimont; il ajoute néanmoins que ‘en considération de l’importance historique (...) et l’aspect honorable sous lequel sont représentés les troupes autrichiennes, les prétentions d’une censure sévère sont amplement remplies pour le libre débit de l’ouvrage.’ Il est précisé en nota que cette correspondance ‘se trouvent page 41 de (mon) Recueil des lettres reçuës de Souvenirs et de personnes marquantes, déposé dans les archives personnelles de Constant’”. (Catalogue de la biblothèque du baron Charles d’Huart, 398).
€ 1400 --
88 BREDOW-WEDEL. HISTORISCHE RANG- UND STAMMLISTE DES DEUTSCHEN HEERES. VOLUMES I-III. KREFELD, Heere der Vergangenheit, 1974.Three volumes. Royal 8vo. Paginated continuously. Pp. xxi, 1442 (2). Tables, fold-out charts. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original burgundy red cloth, spine in black and gilt, top edge coloured, with dust-jacket to each volume (small sticker, sunned). Preserved in card slipcase. In fine condition. Excellent copies, practically unused.
Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Berlin edition. Original, decorated Publisher’s announcement of the set, printed in red and black, is loosely inserted.
€ 265 --
89 BRELSFORD, W. V. (Editor). The Story of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment. Lusaka, The Government Printer, 1954.Crown quarto. Pp. 134. Plus 3 colour plates and many halftone plates, photographs and maps, all printed on different paper. Appendix, index. Hardcover, bound in the original decorated grey cloth, dye stamped in green and red, spine decorated and lettered in green and red, with illustrated dust-jacket (this good; price clipped, short tear to head of spine, chip to back panel). Book is in a very good condition. Fine copy.
-- First edition. Major General F. J. van Lier’s copy, with his entry and signature on a complimentary slip of the Republic of Zambia, mounted on front flyleaf (glue dried).
€ 145 --
90 BROWNE, G. Lathom. The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1854.Duodecimo. Pp. x, 181. With full-page maps and battle plans. Charming engraved illustrations, often as end-pieces. Hardcover, original red cloth over boards, rebacked with calf, sides ornately embossed, upper cover lettered in gilt, spine blind ruled, lettered and dated in gilt, new endpapers, bookseller’s ticket. In overall fine condition. A clean, handsome copy.
- - Very scarce. OCLC lists just 2 other copies worldwide, both of another edition; one, in poor condition, is at Yale University Library; the other in the National Library of Ireland. No record in OLIS, nor Bodleian. No copy in the British Library. George Lathom Browne (1815-1892) wrote “Nelson: The public and private life of Horatio, Viscount Nelson as told by himself, his comrades, and his friends” (1891); and “Wellington: or, the public and private life of Arthur, first Duke of Wellington, as told by himself, his comrades, and his intimate friends” (1889); as well as many books on public law. “No description of a man as he really is, surpasses that which is contained in the plain straightforward relation of his thoughts, feelings, acts, and intentions, in private letters designed for the perusal of those alone to whom they were addressed,” he writes in the Preface to “The Life of Horatio”. “The letters of Nelson are all evidently written for the correspondent alone (...) there the heart speaks rather than the head, and the man appears without disguise. From them the following sketch has been drawn: in no way pretending to a comparison with the beautiful narrative of Southey, but hoping to compensate for its inferiority in style by its greater correctness in facts.”
€ 570 --
91 BROWNE, G. Lathom. Wellington: or, The Public and Private Life of Arthur, First Duke of Wellington, as Told by Himself, his Comrades, and his Intimate Friends. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889.Octavo. Pp. xxv, 381, 4 publisher’s catalogue. Plus Frontispiece; 2 folding plates with facsimile letters; and 3 full-page maps, all printed on different paper. Footnotes, indices, appendix. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s red cloth, upper cover illustrated in gilt and black, spine gilt (bit faded), boards chafed along fore-edge, a little marked; a hinge cracked, a lower joint starting. In a very good condition (prize bookplate, dated 1890, to first paste-down). Handsome copy, very clean and well preserved internally.
- - Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. George Lathom Browne (1815-1892) wrote also “Nelson: The public and private life of Horatio, Viscount Nelson as told by himself, his comrades, and his friends” (1891); and “The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson” (1854); as well as many books on public law. In the Preface to “The Life of Horatio” he writes: “No description of a man as he really is, surpasses that which is contained in the plain straightforward relation of his thoughts, feelings, acts, and intentions, in private letters designed for the perusal of those alone to whom they were addressed.” OCLC 2272072. Scarce.
€ 450 --
92 BULLURA. [BY VARIOUS ETCHERS]. [PREMIER EMPIRE] LA FRANCE MILITAIRE: SUITE OF 12 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS [VIEWS, SITES & LANDSCAPES]. Ca. 1835.A suite of 12 original copperplate etchings, on 6 single sheets, for “La France Militaire”. Overall size ca. 270 x 180 mm. With two impressions on each print, measuring ca. 90 x 110 mm each. Good impressions with ample margins all-round. In overall good condition (margins soiled & foxed to various degrees, a single spot to one image).
- - First edition. Bullura, along others, is signed on the metal, succeeded by “del.” implying this is the artist from whose drawing the engraving or etching was made. Various craftsmen signatures, succeeded by “sculp.” meaning “carved”, implying he who has drawn on the metal. The prints, involving both etching and engraving, depict various general views of places, landscapes, and sites, all identified by name and location. An impressive visual representation of the landscapes of the Premier Empire (1805-1815). Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced Renaissance archival paper. Scarce.
€ 45 --
93 BULLURA. [BY VARIOUS ETCHERS]. [PREMIER EMPIRE] LA FRANCE MILITAIRE: SUITE OF 6 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS [VIEWS, SITES & LANDSCAPES]. Ca. 1835.A suite of 6 original copperplate etchings for “La France Militaire”. Overall size ca. 180 x 270 mm. Image size ca. 110 x 155 mm. Good impressions with ample margins all-round. In overall good condition (margins soiled & foxed to various degrees; images clean).
- - First edition. Bullura, along others, is signed on the metal, succeeded by “del.” implying this is the artist from whose drawing the engraving or etching was made. Various craftsmen signatures, succeeded by “sculp.” meaning “carved”, implying he who has drawn on the metal. The prints, involving both etching and engraving, depict various general views of places, landscapes, and sites, all identified by name and location. An impressive visual representation of the landscapes of the Premier Empire (1805-1815). Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced Renaissance archival paper. Scarce. ADDED: 2 similar prints, foxed.
€ 60 --
94 BULLURA; COUCHÉ, e.a. [By various etchers]. [Premier Empire] La France Militaire: Suite of 21 Original Copperplate Etchings [COSTUMES & VIEWS; PORTRAITS]. Ca. 1835.A suite of 21 original copperplate etchings, on 7 single sheets, for “La France Militaire”. Overall size ca. 270 x 180 mm. Each print has 3 images; one ca. 95 x 110 mm, and two ca. 85 x 55 mm each, on a single impression. Good impressions with ample margins all-round. In overall good condition (margins soiled & foxed to various degrees, hardly affecting image. One print very foxed).
- - First edition. Bullura and Couché, along others, are signed on the metal, succeeded by “del.” implying this is the artist from whose drawing the engraving or etching was made. Various craftsmen signatures, succeeded by “sculp.” meaning “carved”, implying he who has drawn on the metal. The prints, involve both etching and engraving. Each depicts a single costume study of the period, or a general view, and two, very fine portraits of leading (military) personage. An impressive visual representation of the human landscape of the Premier Empire (1805-1815). Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced Renaissance archival paper. Scarce.
€ 60 --
95 CALLENDER, Professor Geoffrey (Foreword). In Aid of the ‘Save the “Victory”’ Fund. Loan Exhibition [Collection] of Nelson Relics. Catalogue. London, Spink & Son, 1928.Crown quarto. Pp. 47. Printed on fine paper. Bound in the original black wrappers, decorative title label. In about fine condition.
- - The campaign to save the “Victory” was inaugurated in 1921. The need for the campaign was the antiquity of the ship and her inability to remain any longer afloat. In 1927 the accumulated funds amounted to over BP 100,000. The present exhibition was organized in order to raise at least BP 10,000. The catalogue lists 182 items. The items include paintings, engravings, letters, silverware, weapons, cloths, miniatures, etc., as well as a locket of Admiral Viscount Nelson’s hair. The items catalogued were the property of the Rev. Hugh Nelson-Ward. Two items, presented in 1881 in memory of Nelson by his daughter, Horatia, were specially lent to the exhibition by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty. Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender’s (1875-1946) preface essay covers 17 pages. ADDED: A folded sheet, titled ‘Save the “Victory”’ Fund (1928), outlining the Society for Nautical Research’s background and future goals. Very scarce. OCLC lists just 4 copies worldwide, all in the United Kingdom (two are in the National Art Library Victoria & Albert Museum; one at the Public Record Office; one at University of Oxford). There is no copy in the British Library.
€ 475 --
96 CHALMERS, Rear-Admiral W. S. Max Horton and the Western Approaches: A Biography of Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1954.Octavo. Pp. xvi, 302. Frontispiece, plates, appendices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth, gilt illustrated, spine gilt, faded, front panel of pictorial dust-jacket tipped-in. A very good copy (old institutional stamps).
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
97 CHAPPUIS, H. Th. De Fransch-Duitsche Oorlog, 1870/71. Rotterdam, Bolle, n.d.Royal octavo. Pp. 396. Frontispiece. Plus folding lithographed map, printed in three colours, bound at rear. With numerous engraved plates and illustrations to the text. Ornamental head-piece to each page. Errata. Hardcover, original pictorial light brown cloth, decorated in gilt and green, spine gilt. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Illustrated with numerous portraits, troops, military formations, field- and urban battle scenes, maps, cavalry, artillery, causalities, etc.
€ 70 --
98 CHARRAS, Lieutenant-Colonel [Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe]. Histoire de la campagne de 1815. Waterloo. I: Tome premier; II: Tome Second; III: Atlas spécial, composé de cinq cartes et plans, dessinés expressément pour cet ouvrage. [THREE VOLUMES IN ONE]. Paris, Armand le Chevalier, 1869.Three volumes bound in one. Thick royal octavo. Pp. iii, 414, (2); 404, (2); 15, plus 5 large folding maps. With all 3 half-titles and 3 title-pages present. Hardcover, bound in contemporary brown shagreen and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands, cloth French corners, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. In overall fine condition. A handsome copy, nicely preserved.
- - Sixième édition. Première édition publiée en France.
€ 400 --
99 CLAUSEWITZ, [Carl von]. Campagne de 1815 en France. Paris, Champ Libre, 1973.Royal octavo. Pp. 209. Original stiff wrappers with flaps.
- - Translated from the German by M. Niessel.
€ 30 --
100 CLOWES, W. Laird, and Alan H. Burgoyne. Trafalgar Refought. London, Edinburgh, & Dublin, Thomas Nelson & Sons, (1905).Thick crown octavo. Pp. 290. Frontispiece plate with facing tissue guard. Plus fold-out maps, double-page tables, and full-page photo-plates, all printed on different paper, tipped-in. Title printed in red and black. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pictorial cloth, pictorial spine gilt; first free endpaper incised. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition of this handsome book.
€ 100 --
101 COLE, Brigadier D. H. Imperial Military Geography: The Geographical Background of the Defence Problems of the British Commonwealth. London, Sifton Praed, 1950.Octavo. Pp. x, 318. With 17 folding maps bound in the text (the larger) or tipped-in (the smaller); appendix, index. Errata slip tipped-in. Hardcover, original light blue cloth, spine lettered in black. In a very good condition (private ownership inscription to front free endpaper and to title).
Tenth edition. Nice copy. Maps are crisp and seem not to be opened, text clean indeed.
€ 25 --
102 COTTON, Sergeant-Major Edward. A Voice from Waterloo: A History of the Battle Fought on the 18th June, 1815, with a Selection from the Wellington Dispatches, General Orders and Letters Relating to the Battle, illustrated with Engravings, Portraits and Plans. Brussels, Hotel du Musée, 1900.Small octavo. Pp. xxiv, 297, (4), 16 catalogue, (2). Plus outline map of the Waterloo campaign, coloured by hand, tipped-in, and a large, folding map, printed in colour on thick paper, tipped-in at rear, both fresh and crisp. Frontispiece, plates, text illustrations. Hardcover, handsomely bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, boards decorated in blind, each cover gilt stamped with a different medallion, spine
lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges red. In fine condition. Overall an excellent copy.- - Ninth edition, revised and enlarged.
€ 110 --
103 COUVREUR, Général-major Hre Hector-Jean. Le drame belge de Waterloo. Bruxelles, Brepols, 1959.Octavo. Pp. 203. Plus 18 tinted screen-garvure plates, endpaper maps. With a double-page map. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full blue cloth, gilt decoration to cover, gilt lettering to spine, with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 80 --
104 CUMBY, Wm. Pyrce; Mark Kerr; William Wood; (Robert Moorsom). The Battle of Trafalgar (An Unpublished Narrative); [BOUND WITH:] How Nelson’s Memorandum Was Carried Out at Trafalgar; [BOUND WITH:] One of Nelson’s Captains. London, Nineteenth Century, 1899.Crown quarto. Pp. 717-728 plus large folding facsimile plan of the battle of Trafalgar, drawn by Captain Cumby; 679-704 plus large folding plan, a copy of the plan in Madrid, drawn by Escano, Admiral Gravina’s Chief of Staff, other battle plans in the text; 352-363. Hardcover, bound in navy blue cloth, gilt lettering. In a very good condition.
- - “The Battle of Trafalgar (An Unpublished Narrative)” is an offprint from “The Nineteenth Century”, November 1899. It is a letter written by Captain Cumby, H.M.S. ship “Bellerophon”, to his son Anthony, giving an account of the battle of Trafalgar. The footnotes were subsequently added by Admiral Robert Patton, who was a midshipman on board the “Bellerophon” during the action. In 1899 the letter has never before been published, nor has the accompanying plan of the position of the ships at the opening of the battle. Both documents were furnished by Cumby’s granddaughter, Mrs. Horatio Spurrier. With an introduction by Admiral Erasmus Ommanney. - - “How nelson’s Memorandum Was Carried Out at Trafalgar” is an offprint from “The Nineteenth Century” October 1911. It aims to prove, from recorded facts, that the battle of Trafalgar was fought on the consummate plan issued by Nelson in his Memorandum, and also to “give a denial to the accusation levelled against him by some writers of having gone into action in a fleet-order which would have been the worst possible that could have been devised”. Includes five appendices. - - “One of Nelson’s Captains” is an offprint from “The National Review”, 1918. It brings the letters of Sir Robert Moorsom, and highlights of his career, to form an account of the battle of Trafalgar, narrated by William Wood. Also included are letters from Rev. J. Greenly, Chaplain of the “Revenge”. The E. D. Eastwick’s copy, with his signature, dated 1931 to first paste-down. From the library of J. B. Libbenga with his bookplate. Very rare.
€ 475 --
105 DALLY, A. La France Militaire Illustrée. Diverses organisations de l’armée, armures et costumes, armes, drapeaux, décorations et ordres militaires. Avec 360 Gravures. Paris, Larousse, n.d. (ca. 1880).Crown octavo. Pp. viii, 378. With 360 engraved illustrations. Hardcover, original decorated red cloth gilt and black. In good condition. (Some foxing; some contemporary annotations; spine lightly rubbed.) Nice copy.
Nicely illustrated. With numerous newspaper clips (in Dutch) laid-in.
€ 85 --
106 DANZER, Alfons. Illustrations by Felician Freiherrn von Myrbach. Unter den Fahnen. Die Völker Österreich-Ungarns in Waffen. Wien, Tempsky, 1889.Royal 8vo. Pp. viii, 471, (1) errata. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Plus 11 splendid chromotypograph plates; one monochromatic portrait. With 138 fine illustrations of various techniques to the text, some of which are full- or double-page; head- and tail-pieces, full-page map. Set in Gothic type. Pattern endpapers. All edges red. Hardcover, original richly illustrated cloth (bit stained), spine gilt decorated and lettered (ends very lightly rubbed). In fine condition. Handsome copy, internally well preserved and spotless.
First edition. With a lovely old bookplate depicting a naval scene.
€ 115 --
107 DUFFY, Christopher. The Army of Frederick the Great. London, David & Charles, 1974.Crown 4to. Pp. 272. Colour plate frontispiece. Plus 16 single-page maps, printed in 2 colours, with legend page. Many illustrations, maps, battle plans to the text. Appendices, notes and references, bibliography, index. Hardcover, original black cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket (this very good; bit yellowing, price clipped). Book is in a fresh-new condition. Excellent copy.
First edition. A thorough study of the “potent military machine that became one of the most powerful forces in the shaping of modern Europe.” Includes a first-class set of maps.
€ 28 --
108 DÜLFFER, Jost. Weimar, Hitler und die Marine: Reichspolitik und Flottenbau, 1920 bis 1939. Düsseldorf, Droste, 1973.Crown 8vo. Pp. 615. Footnotes, appendix, bibliography, index. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine gilt, with very good pictorial dust-jacket. Book is in fine condition. Crisp, excellent copy.
First edition.
€ 125 --
109 EBERTZ, George Wolfram von. Hundertjährige Geschichte des Grenadier-Regiments König Friedrich III. (2. Schlesisches) Nr. 11. 1808-1908. Stuttgart, Uhland, 1908.Royal octavo. Pp. xv, 616. Frontispiece, dedication leaf. Plus 4 colour plates of uniforms; one colour plate of the Regiment’s Standard; 8 full-page battle maps, one with an overlay tipped-in, printed with additional colours representing troops’ positions; one fold-out sketch map and 14 other maps to the text. Photo illustrations, line-drawings. Illustrated head- and tail-pieces, illustrated initials. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s military-green cloth, lettered in black, all edges dyed red, handsome floral endpapers. Spine detached, few scratches to boards, else an excellent copy in a near fine condition.
- - First edition. Rare. One copy in the British Library. No record in OCLC.
€ 800 --
110 EDWARDS, Kenneth. Uneasy Oceans. London, George Routledge, 1939.8vo. Pp. vii, 382. Frontispiece. Plus 6 extending naval maps bound at rear, and 15 halftone plates, with illustrated endpapers as general view. Index. Hardcover, original light blue cloth, spine gilt. In a very good condition. (Small sticker to foot of spine; brown offset from bookseller ticket.) Clean copy.
First edition.
€ 25 --
111 ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN. WATERLOO. SUITE DU CONSCRIT DE 1813. PARIS, Librairie Internationale J. Hetzel et A. Lacroix, n.d.Octavo. Pp. 374. In the original publisher’s printed wrappers. Untrimmed. Very good.
- - Neuvième édition.
€ 20 --
112 FABRICIUS, v.; Lithograph by R. Knötel. Geschichte des 3. Garde Ulanen Regiments, 1860-1910. Berlin, Mittler, 1910.Octavo. Pp. 193. Plus a fine chromolithograph plate, depicting the Regiment Standard, printed in gold and silver, and a fine chromolithograph plate of uniforms study by Knötel; 18 halftone plates and one folding letterpress map, all printed on different paper bound in. With one letterpress map to the text. Headpieces, decorative initials. Side-notes, appendices. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed paper-covered boards lettered and decorated. In about fine condition. (boards very lightly discoloured). Excellent copy, very nicely preserved.
- - First edition.
€ 195 --
113 FAIRON, Emile, and Henri Heuse. Preface by Louis Madelin. Lettres de Grognards. Édition illustrée et commentée. Liége, Bénard; Paris Courville, 1936.Quarto. Pp. xvi, 416. Plus 15 colour lithographic plates bound in, some with multiple images; full-page facsimiles. Letterpress illustrations to the text, one coloured. Footnotes, indices. Original red card binding, illustrated and heightened in gold, a crease or two to edges. In a very good condition. Handsome copy, very well preserved.
First edition, rather scarce in the original binding.
€ 285 --
114 FARRÈRE, Claude. Illustrations de Charles Fouqueray. La Bataille. [Auguste Blaizot Edition]. Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1925.Quarto. Pp. (vi) dedication leaf, preface, 274. Title-page printed in red and black. Hand-coloured lithograph to title, and 106 other hand-coloured lithographs, some of which are full-page. Initials printed in red. Footnotes. Uncut. Original card wrappers with integrated dust-jacket of heavy paper, lithographed and hand-coloured. Handsome bookplate to prelim. In exceptionally fine condition. An excellent copy indeed, beautifully preserved.
- - First edition. Printed in a limited edition of 350 copies on hand-made paper, of which this copy is number 330. Text printed in 1922 by Jacoub et Aulard, Paris. The fine illustrations were lithographed by Maurice Potin three years later. In this edition they are furthermore all either finely washed in hues of black, or fully hand-coloured in aquarelle. A remarkable classic, exceedingly scarce in this superbly produced edition, particularly so in the original, hand-coloured binding.
€ 675 --
115 FINKE, Edmund. K. (u.) k. [K.(u.)k. K.u.K.] Hoch- und Deutschmeister: 222 Jahre für Kaiser und Reich. Graz, Stocker, 1978.4to. Pp. 359 (1) publisher’s ads. Colour plate frontispiece. Plus a number of halftone and colour plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and line-drawn illustrations, facsimiles, many of which full- or double-page. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original decorated blue cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition.
First edition.
€ 45 --
116 FISHER, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord (John Arbuthnot). Memories. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.Royal 8vo. Pp. 295. Portrait frontispiece. Plus a number of halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Index. Hardcover, original gilt-stamped red cloth, spine gilt. In good condition. (Endpapers browned, some spotting to edges, some foxing.)
First edition. Published just a year before Lord Fisher’s (1841-1920) death.
€ 28 --
117 FITCHETT, W. H. Nelson and His Captains: Sketches of famous Seamen. London, Smith, Elder, 1902.Octavo. Pp. 322, 6 publisher’s catalogue. Frontispiece, portraits, fold-out facsimile letter. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt medal to upper cover, spine gilt, top edge gilt; spine bit discoloured, lower cover bit marked. In a very good condition. Nice copy.
- - First edition. From the library of Tim A. Barrett with his blind-stamp and signature.
€ 35 --
118 FLEISCHMAN, Theo. Un curieux recit de Waterloo. Bruxelles, Meddens, n.d.Royal octavo. Pp. 158. Illustrated head- and tail-pieces. original stiff wrappers with flaps. Fine.
- - First edition.
€ 30 --
119 FLEISCHMANN, Hector. La tragique histoire du chateau d’Hougoumont. D’après des documents inédits et accompagnée de huit gravures, croquis et d’un plan. (Bibliothèque d’Études sur Waterloo). Paris, Société “Les Amis de Waterloo” & Maynier et Brimeur, 1913.Crown octavo. Pp. 62. Plus 6 plates, printed on different paper, bound in, 3 full-page illustrations, and a folding plan bound at end. Head- and tail-pieces. Half-title, printed on verso with publisher’s catalogue. Appendices, footnotes.
Hardcover, bound in contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, with the original wrapper, printed in red and black and decorated with imperial eagle, laid-down. Sporadic foxing, else an excellent copy in fine condition.- - First edition. From the library of the late H. J. Wijsman, with his handsome bookplate, incorporating the header “1815”, the Napoleonic Royal Seal, and a miniature shadow-picture of a battalion led to battle by a mounted Napoleon. Rare. No records found on KVK. Not in French Union Catalog nor in National Library of France. Not listed on OCLC.
€ 320 --
120 FLEISCHMANN, Hector. Victor Hugo, Waterloo, Napoléon. Documents, recueillis, publiés et annotés. Paris, Albert Méricant, n.d.Crown octavo. Pp. xvi, 271. Plus plates and facsimiles. Text illustrations, tail-pieces. Hardcover, bound in half forest green cloth and matching boards, occasionally light foxing. In overall fine condition. Handsome copy.
- - First edition. From the library of the late H. J. Wijsman, with his handsome bookplate, incorporating the header “1815”, the Napoleonic Royal Seal, and a miniature shadow-picture of a battalion led to battle by a mounted Napoleon.
€ 90 --
121 FOSTEN, Bryan; Alan Kemp. Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars. Volumes 1-4: British Foot Guards at Waterloo, June 1815: 1. Quatre Bras and Waterloo; 2. Uniforms for Officers and Men; 3. Headdress, Badges, and Equipment; 4. Colours and Weapons. Volumes 5-6: French Imperial Guard Infantry, June 1815: 5. Paris and Waterloo; 6. The Uniforms. Volume 7: The Royal Artillery: Uniforms and Equipment. Volume 8: British Cavalry at Waterloo, June 1815: The Union Brigade. [Complete Series, Volumes 1-8]. New Malden, Almark, n.d.8 VOLUMES. COMPLETE SERIES. FULL TITLE-LIST AS FOLLOWS: Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars. Volumes 1-4: British Foot Guards at Waterloo, June 1815: 1. Quatre Bras and Waterloo; 2. Uniforms for Officers and Men; 3. Headdress, Badges, and Equipment; 4. Colours and Weapons. Volumes 5-6: French Imperial Guard Infantry, June 1815: 5. Paris and Waterloo; 6. The Uniforms. Volume 7: The Royal Artillery: Uniforms and Equipment. Volume 8: British Cavalry at Waterloo, June 1815: The Union Brigade. Volumes 1-8. Quarto. Volumes 1-4, paginated consecutively Pp. 110; Volumes 5-8, paginated consecutively Pp. 110. Profusely illustrated throughout. Pictorial card wrappers. In about fine condition.
First edition. This lovely series is seldom offered in its entirety.
€ 80 --
122 FRASER, Edward. The Enemy at Trafalgar: An Account of the Battle from Eye-Witnesses’ Narratives and Letters and Despatches from the French and Spanish Fleets. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.Royal octavo. Pp. xix, (i), 436, (1) publisher’s ad. Frontispiece plate with facing tissue-guard. Plus 26 photographic illustrations on 15 plates, printed on different paper, bound-in. With 30 illustrations to the text, and 4 full-page plans. Footnotes, appendices, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, naval illustration embossed in gilt on upper cover, spine gilt, corner-tips and spine ends lightly bumped, top edge gilt. In overall fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. “The idea of this book is to render tribute to the gallant men at whose expense our own nelson achieved his crowning fame. Conversely, it should serve as the highest kind of tribute to Nelson himself, and those who helped him to win the day.” opens Fraser his Preface. “Throughout, what took place in the battle is described from the enemy’s point of view; and, as far as possible, in the words of the officers and men - from Admiral Villeneuve himself, the enemy’s commander-in-chief, downwards - whose personal experiences supply the basis of the narrative.” Scarce.
€ 470 --
123 FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN, Frhrn. v. Geschultes Volksheer oder Miliz? Kriegslehren aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Berlin, Mittler, 1918.Crown 8vo. Pp. 116. Set in Gothic type. Original grey wrappers lettered in red and green. Good condition. (Old shelf labels to spine and small reinforcements to head and tail, institutional stamps and marks to cover and title.) Else, a good copy.
Second edition.
€ 15 --
124 FRIEDAG, B. (Editor). Führer durch Heer und Flotte. Elfter Jahrgang, 1914. Krefeld, Heere der Vergangenheit, 1974.Royal 8vo. Pp. 397. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original burgundy red cloth, spine in black and gilt, top edge coloured, with decorated dust-jacket (small sticker). In fine condition. Excellent copy.
Facsimile reprint of the 1913 Berlin edition.
€ 68 --
125 GÄFGEN, Hans. Bildern von Gerhard Ulrich. Blücher. Stuttgart, Thienemanns, n.d.Crown 8vo. Pp. 80. With fine pen-and-ink drawings; four maps. Hardcover, original pictorial boards. In fine condition. (Private ownership stamp.) Excellent copy.
First edition.
€ 20 --
126 GÉRARD, Général. [Comte Étienne Maurice]. Quelques documens sur la bataille de Waterloo, propres a éclairer la question portée devant le public par M. le Marquis de Grouchy. Bruxelles, Tarlier, 1829.Royal octavo. Pp. 46. Handsome armorial device to title. Half-title present, with old ink notation offset onto title leaf. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full cloth, bit stained, spine worn, old paper shelf label. Foxed, else a very good copy.
- - First edition. Étienne Maurice, Comte Gérard (1773-1852). Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy, Marshal of France (1766-1847). As commander-in-chief of the armies of France, he successfully led his soldiers after Waterloo back to the capital. He later resigned and retired to the USA but in 1819 he returned to France and was reinstated as marshal in 1831. Rare. OCLC lists the French edition only, also published in 1829. KVK lists only 2 copies of this edition (Manchester University and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin).
€ 220 --
127 GIROD DE L’AIN, Maurice. Vie militaire du général Foy. Ouvrage accompagné de deux portraits en héliogravure, six cartes et trois fac-similes d’autographes. Paris, Plon, 1900.Royal octavo. Pp. 431. Plus 2 aquatint heliogravure portraits, printed on heavy leaves, one as frontispiece, both with facing tissue guards; plus 6 maps printed in fine collotype (one lithographed), 4 of which are folding, including 2 very large which are bound at end; plus 3 facsimiles printed in collotype, 2 of which are folding and with allegorical illustrations. With a double-page table to text. Hardcover, bound in contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands, blind ruled sides, handsome marbled endpapers, leather abraded and chafed in places, light foxing to first leaves. In fine internal condition. Beautifully preserved interior with exceptionally fine, crisp sets of maps and plates.
- - First edition.
€ 380 --
128 GLASENAPP G. V. NEUE MILITÄRISCHE BLÄTTER. VOLUMES 44-45 (1894). BERLIN, Neue Militärische Blätter, 1894.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 565; 534. Plus two folding maps loosely inserted in rear pocket of 1st volume as issued. Ads. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half pebbled cloth and marbled boards, spines gilt. In a very good condition. (Old institutional stamps.) Nice set.
First edition. The two volumes cover the first and second semesters of 1894.
€ 60 --
129 GRANT CHARLES, Alan Shepperd, James Lawford, Gregory Blaxland, Otto von Pivka, William McElwee, W. Y. Carman, Terence Wise, Douglas Miller, Christopher Rothero. Colour plates by Michael Roffe, Michael Youens, Gerald Embleton. The Coldstream Guards. [AND:] The Black Watch. [AND:] Royal Scots Greys. [AND:] The Connaught Rangers. [AND:] 30th Punjabis. [AND:] The Buffs. [AND:] The Black Brunswickers. [AND:] Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. [AND:] The Royal Artillery. [AND:] Medieval European Armies. [AND:] The Landsknechts. [AND:] The Armies of Grécy and Poitiers. [Osprey Men-at-Arms Series. 12 VOLUMES]. Reading, Osprey, 1971-76.12 VOLUMES of the original series. FULL TITLE LIST AS FOLLOWS: The Coldstream Guards. AND: The Black Watch. AND: Royal Scots Greys. AND: The Connaught Rangers. AND: 30th Punjabis. AND: The Buffs. AND: The Black Brunswickers. AND: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. AND: The Royal Artillery. AND: Medieval European Armies. AND: The Landsknechts. AND: The Armies of Grécy and Poitiers. Men-at-Arms Series. - - Unnumbered. Each volume Pp. 40, plus several colour plates. Profusely illustrated throughout. Pictorial card wrappers. In about fine condition.
- - With beautifully produced colour plates, not the least because the printing technique in these early issues was not offset lithography but one which still used relief metal blocks. A somewhat laborious process, it could yield exceptionally nice results if done with great attention to detail, and the plates here are a good example for such.
€ 120 --
130 [GROUCHY, Emmanuel Marquis de]. Campagne de 1815. Fragments historiques réunis pour établir le fait de calomnie répandue dans un libelle du général Berthezène, publié en dat du 27 Mai 1840. Paris, Delanchy, 1840.Octavo. Pp. 19. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter cloth and handsome marbled boards, spine gilt. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Attributed to Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy, Marshal of France (1766-1847). As commander-in-chief of the armies of France, he successfully led his soldiers after Waterloo back to the capital. He later resigned and retired to the USA but in 1819 he returned to France and was reinstated as marshal in 1831. Very rare. KVK Locates Bibliotheque Nationale de France only. Not on French Union Catalog. No copy located on OCLC worldwide. In the same year also “Réponse au nom de la mémoire du général baron Le Sénécal, a la calomnie publiée par M. le baron Berthezène, dans un libelle en date du 27 Mai 1840” was published in Paris (also offered by Librarium). From the library of the late H. J. Wijsman, with his handsome bookplate.
€ 680 --
131 GUÉRIN, Léon. Les marins illustres de la France. Paris, Morizot, 1861.Duodecimo. Pp. 463. Engraved frontispiece by Rouargue Frères, with facing tissue guard. Three other fine engravings, with facing tissue guards, by the same. Engraved title vignette. Hardcover, contemporary red quarter calf, gilt ornate spine in five compartments between raised bands. Panelled red boards, all edges gilt, white silken endpapers. In about fine condition (spotting). A very handsome copy.
- - This edition should not to be confused with the popular Belin-Leprieur book of the same title (1845, reprint 1861). The present edition is distinguished by the inclusion of fine copperplates engravings, the work of F. Chardon.
€ 225 --
132 GUTTERIDGE, H. C. (Editor). Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins: Documents Relating to the Suppression of the Jacobin Revolution at Naples, June 1799. N.p., Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1903.Thick royal octavo. Pp. cxvii, 351. Frontispiece map. Plus fold-out plate. Illustrated title-page, decorative head-piece. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, black spine, gilt, and white cloth over boards, centre gilt medallion to upper cover, sides gilt-ruled along spine. In overall fine condition.
- - First edition. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume XXV.
€ 100 --
133 HALPERN, Paul G. The Mediterranean Naval Situation, 1908-1914. [Harvard Historical Studies]. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1971.Royal 8vo. Pp. x, (iv), 415, (2) publisher’s catalogue. Footnotes, appendix, bibliography, index. Three full-page maps. Hardcover, original pale grey cloth, spine lettered in black, with dust-jacket (this very good). Book in fine condition. Excellent copy, bright and fresh.
First edition.
€ 44 --
134 HAMMANN, Otto. Der neue Kurs: Erinnerungen. Berlin, Reimar Hobbing, 1918.Crown 8vo. Pp. viii, 160. Footnotes, index. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original grey cloth, lettered in black and green. Good condition. (Covers bit soiled/spotted, leaf or two loosening exposing crack between inner margins, private ownership stamp.)
€ 15 --
135 HAWGOOD, J. A. (Editor). Text by R. Horsman. Napoleon’s Europe; The New America. The Hamlyn History of the World in Colour, Volume Fifteen. London, Hamlyn, 1969.AS NEW. Quarto. Pp. 128. Colour frontispiece plate. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous colour plates and text illustrations. Chronology, index. Set in triple columns. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s gilt-decorated red leatherette, spine gilt. A very fine copy in mint, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - First English edition. ADDED: 10-page, full-colour illustrated catalogue of Napoleonic books (ca. 1960).
€ 45 --
136 HEILMANN, Johann. Das Kriegswesen der Kaiserlichen und Schweden zur Zeit des dreißigjährigen [dreissigjährigen] Krieges, mit Rücksichtnahme auf Aufbringung, Ergänzung, Unterhalt und Kriegszucht der Truppen, nebst den Schlachten bei Breitenfeld und Lützen. Krefeld, Heere der Vergangenheit, 1977.Octavo. Pp. 397, (2). Frontispiece. With 2 extended maps, printed on thick paper, bound in. Hardcover, original Bordeaux red cloth, spine gilt, with dust-jacket (this very good, sunned, discoloured). In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - Facsimile reprint of the 1850 Leipzig edition. Scarce.
€ 115 --
137 HERRE, Franz. Anno 70/71: Ein Krieg, ein Reich, ein Kaiser. Köln, Kiepenheur & Witsch, 1970.Royal 8vo. Pp. 318. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour and halftone plates, many of which full- or double-page, line-drawn illustrations, facsimiles. Bibliography, index. Endpapers beautifully illustrated with maps. Hardcover, original sand cloth, spine lettered in red and black, with pictorial dust-jacket. In excellent condition.
First edition.
€ 27 --
138 HOUSSAYE, Henri [Henry], Jean de Mitty, Francois Coppée, Henri D’Alméras, Jules Mazé, Henri Guerlin, Maurice Barrès. Illustrations by JOB [Jean Onfroy de Breville]. La vieille Garde impériale. [FIRST EDITION]. Tours, Mame et Fils, ca. 1900.Royal quarto. Pp. 245. Plus a total of 19 superb, contemporary hand-coloured plates printed on different paper, one of which is a frontispiece, the rest 18 bound-in each at a beginning of a chapter, all protected by tissue guards. With 38 exquisite engravings, two to each chapter. Printed on fine heavy paper. Half title. Title-page to each chapter. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and crimson boards with the original leaf-green silk cover, lettered and decorated in gilt with two gilt Imperial eagles, laid down. In fine condition. (Top of board lightly sunned, minor rubbing to lower edges; some scattered spots.) A very handsome copy with all plates and illustrations in a wonderful state of preservation. Excellent.
- - First edition. Estimates about the exact publication year of this famous work vary. The prevailing assumption is that it was first published in around 1900, probably shortly before. [See also: François Robichon: “JOB ou l’Histoire illustrée” (Paris, 1984).] Sometime thereafter it was reprinted in a smaller quarto format, with monochromatic illustrations only. Future editions (1929, 1933) were no longer hand-coloured. The seven authors, and JOB, dedicate a chapter to each of the Corps of the Old Imperial Guard: Napoléon a l’armée; Les Colonels généraux; Les Grenadiers a pied; Les Grenadiers Hollandais; Les Marins; Les Vétérans; Les Gendarmerie d’élite; Les Grenadiers a cheval; Les Dragons; Les Chasseurs a cheval; Les Mameloucks; Les Lanciers Polonais; Les Lanciers rouges; L’Artillerie a pied; L’Artillerie a cheval; Les Sapeurs du génie; Le Train d’artillerie; La Garde. - - Henri (Henry) Houssaye (1848-1911) was a French historian. While his early writings were devoted to classical antiquity, he took great interest in the military history of Napoleon I. He published several successful works on the subject: his book “1814” was published in 46 editions. A very handsome original work with fine impressions, very delicately hand-coloured by contemporary hand. (A single copy at the Brown University Library). A rare classic, exceedingly scarce.
€ 1140 --
139 HUSSEY, Frank. Suffolk Invasion: The Dutch Attack on Landguard Fort, 1667. Lavenham, Terence, 1983.Royal 8vo. Pp. xi, 188. Frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with halftone and line-drawn illustrations and maps, many full-page. Appendices, references, notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original white cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket (very good). In fine condition.
First edition. The story of the fortification of Landguard Point and the Dutch naval attack of 1665.
€ 35 --
140 JACKSON, Basil. Waterloo et Sainte-Hélène. Notes et souvenirs d’un officier d’état-major. Paris, Plon, 1912.Crown octavo. Pp. 280. Plus frontispiece with facing tissue guard. Hardcover, handsomely bound in half grass-green cloth and matching marbled boards. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First French edition. Translated from the English by Em. Brouwet.
€ 180 --
141 JÄHNS, Max. Das französische Heer von der grossen Revolution bis zur Gegenwart: Eine kulturhistorische Studie. Leipzig, Grunow, 1873.Octavo. Pp. xvi, 800. Footnotes. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original half calf, spine gilt in compartments, with blind tooling along boards, first inner hinge slightly cracked; marbled edges. In about fine condition (contemporary annotations in pencil to front paste-down). A handsome copy.
- - First edition. From the contemporary library of Mr [Master of Laws] F. C. Koch, with his handsome bookplate.
€ 350 --
142 JAL, A. Abraham du Quesne et la marine de son temps. Volumes I-II. Paris, Plon, 1873.Two volumes. Royal 8vo. Pp. xv, 600; 606, (2) errata (verso blank). Frontispiece to each volume, several facsimiles, letterpress device to title pages. Notes, bibliography, index. Green silken markers. Hardcover, modern green leatherette, boards gilt ruled, spine with six false raised bands and two gilt-stamped red morocco labels. Original printed wrappers bound in. In a very good condition. (Spotted; tear to one leaf neatly mended.) Neat, very handsome copies.
Loosely inserted an old Photostat copy from “La chance de du Quesne”.
€ 275 --
143 KELLER, Gerard. Het beleg van Parijs in 1870-1871. ’s-Gravenhage, Stemberg, n.d.Royal 8vo. Pp. 204. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous engravings, many of which are full- or double-page. Set in double columns. Hardcover, original richly decorated red cloth blocked in black and gilt, lower board blind stamped, spine gilt. Patterned endpapers. In a very good condition (Spine-ends bit rubbed.) A nice copy.
Second concise edition. Very richly illustrated.
€ 45 --
144 KEYM, Franz. Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges. Nach den Resultaten der neuern Forschungen. [THREE PARTS IN ONE VOLUME]. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1863-64.Two volumes in three parts bound in one. Thick octavo. Pp. vii, 424; 484; 489-766. Plus 5 wood-engraved portraits. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in contemporary black calf and cloth, gilt ruled spine, gilt lettering. In a very good condition. A nice copy.
- - First edition.
€ 160 --
145 KIGHTLY, Charles. GREAT BATTLES: Agincourt. [AND:] Flodden: The Anglo-Scottish War of 1513. [LOT OF 2 BOOKS]. London, Almark, 1974, 1975.Lot of 2 books. Square royal octavo. Pp. 48; 48. Profusely illustrated throughout. Original pictorial wrappers. In about fine condition.
- - First edition. Two books from the Great Battles Series. ISBN 855242140 ISBN 855242183
€ 10 --
146 [KNÖTEL, R.] Unser Vaterland in Waffen. Ein patriotischer Hausschatz für das deutsche Volk und Heer. Berlin, Vaterländischer Verlag, (1900).Quarto. Pp. viii, 800. Frontispiece portrait. Plus 40 military study plates after R. Knötel, mostly in colour, and 7 portraits, all printed on different paper, bound in. Poems set within decorative border, with illustrated headpiece printed in letterpress. Set in Gothic type. Decorative endpapers. Hardcover, original pictorial cloth by Paul Hüttich, illustration and lettering embossed, spine elaborately illustrated, gilt. In a very good condition. (Some minor blemishes, finger soiling, light edge rubbing.) Overall a handsome copy.
€ 145 --
147 KUGLER, and Bruno Schrader. Friedrich der Grosse [Große] und seine Zeit in Bild und Wort. Bilder nach Originalen von Camphausen, Chodowiecki, Kampf, Marschall, Menzel, Pesne, rauch, v. Rössler, Schadow, Schöbel, Schuch, Seiler, Wislicenus, Skarbina, Röchling... Hamburg, Hansa, (ca. 1900).Oblong 4to. Pp. 192. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous wood engravings, photoxylographs (wood engravings from photographs), and halftone illustrations, mostly as full-page plates. Each page set within decorated border. Decorative initials. Text set in 2 columns. Hardcover, original cloth-backed pebble-grain paper covered boards, richly illustrated, gilt. In fine condition. Save a blemish or two, an excellent copy, well-preserved.
First edition. A remarkably well-illustrated history of Fredrick the Great.
€ 85 --
148 L’ARDÈCHE, Laurent de. Illustrée par Horace Vernet. Histoire de l’Empereur Napoléon. Paris, Dubochet, 1839.Thick crown quarto. Pp. 802. Engraved frontispiece by Breviere, after Vernet. Half-title; title-page, dated 1839, with engraved vignetter. With about 500 engravings after Vernet throughout the text. Bound in half cloth and marbled paper over boards, spine with gilt leather lettering-piece. With the original illustrated wrappers bound-in, the first wrap strengthened along gutter. Foxed, else in fine condition.
- - First edition. Copies of “Histoire de l’Empereur Napoléon” which preserve the original publisher’s illustrated wrappers are practically non-existent and highly sought after. Incorporating elaborate artwork, these wrappers were engraved by Clerget after the original work by Le Bas, and were printed by the firm Scneider et Langrand of Paris. Dated 1840, it can be assumed that they were used to wrap also the 1939 edition, as the present copy demonstrates. Carteret III, 375. Vicaire V, 98-99. Sander 425.
€ 195 --
149 L’ARDÈCHE, P. M. Laurent de. Illustrated by Horace Vernet. Geschiedenis van Keizer Napoleon. Volumes I-II. ’s-Gravenhage, Van Langenhuyzen, 1840.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 440; 443-928, (4). Illustrated with 500 engravings, many of which full-page. Hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, manuscript labels to spines. New endpapers. Roughly trimmed. A fair copy only, with numerous flaws; amateur attempt at binding. Still, a charming, if far from perfect set.
First and only Dutch edition, translated from the German edition which was published at the same year. The first French edition was published a year earlier. Though commonly available in English and French, the Dutch edition is exceedingly scarce and seldom available.
€ 85 --
150 LACHOUQUE, Henry. Adapted from the French by Anne S. K. Brown. The Anatomy of Glory: Napoleon and his Guard. A Study in Leadership. Providence, Brown University Press & London, Lund Humphries, 1962.AS NEW. Crown quarto. Pp. xviii, 564. Colour frontispiece plate Plus 172 other full-page plates, many in colour, printed on fine paper. Text illustration and 14 maps, some folding. Endpaper maps. Appendices, indices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s dark blue cloth, gilt lettering, red dye label to spine, gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket (this very good with a little wear to one corner). Book is in mint, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy.
- - Second, revised edition.
€ 60 --
151 LANGE, Eduard, Adolph Menzel. Die Soldaten Friedrich’s des Grossen. Mit 31 Original-Zeichnungen von Adolph Menzel. Leipzig, Avenarius & Mendelssohn, 1853.Crown quarto. Five books in one, paginated consecutively. Pp. xx, 599. Half-title; tinted title-page; second title in letterpress; dedication leaf. Plus contemporary hand-coloured frontispiece plate and 30 other contemporary hand-coloured plates (31 in total). Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary half calf and marbled boards (bit rubbed), spine gilt-lettered direct, with four raised bands between gilt single rules. In about fine condition (the usual tanning; faint dampmark to top margin throughout, not affecting plates). A lovely copy.
- - A beautiful collection of hand-coloured costume plates, exquisitely produced. The plates, by E. Kretzschmar after Adolph Menzel, are the result of a complicated and delicate process, now obsolete, which was invented in the early 1850’s by Firmin Gillot. Known as Gillotage, the process turned a lithographic drawing into a relief plate. Employing both planographic and relief methods, the process remained purely manual, involving no photography. The lithograph was transferred to zinc and then etched, in an extremely laborious process, to make a metal relief block from which the final print was made. Noteworthily, many of Daumier’s lithographic plates were treated in this way before their publication. Here, the plates are delicately hand-coloured by contemporary hand, rich in detail, and in a particularly good condition.
€ 645 --
152 LANGER, Herbert. Kulturgeschichte des Dreißigjährigen [30jährigen Dreissigjährigen] Krieges. Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1978.4to. Pp. 279. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles. Indices, bibliography. Hardcover, off-white cloth illustrated, spine lettered in black, with pictorial dust-jacket. Preserved in a slipcase(sunned). In a fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy.
First edition. Lavishly illustrated, impressive volume which chronicles the Thirty Years War.
€ 42 --
153 LANGERMANN UND ERLENCAMP, [Rudolf] Freiherr von; [Werner Eugen Paul Konstantin] von Voigts-Rhetz. Geschichte des Großherzoglich [grossherzoglich] Mecklenburgischen Grenadier-Regiments Nr. 89. Schwerin, Stiller (I. Ritter), 1895.Thick royal octavo. Pp. (vi), 635, (1). Fine collotype frontispiece plate, a composite of portraits, emblem, and crests, set within elaborate design. Plus 8 other collotype plates of which 2 are full-page portraits, each with a facsimile signature; 3 are composites of portrait vignettes within ornamental designs; and 3 are fine pictorial views. Plus 3 excellent chromolithograph plates of uniforms, printed on thick white card. Plus 10 maps, of which 6 are printed separately and bound in, some printed in colour, one fold-out. Plus large folding map, printed in black, red, and blue on thick paper, tipped-in at rear. Two fold-out tables. Elaborate initial, depicting the Regiment’s standards. Numerous tables throughout the text, appendices, extended indices, registers of officers’ names. Title-page with Royal regimental crest. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original ivory cloth, upper cover with Royal regimental crest in gilt relief, set within gilt panel with 4 ornamental corner-pieces, gilt frame and border; lower cover with gilt relief sunburst medal, set within similar panel; spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Golden foliage endpapers; bevelled boards; all edges dyed red. In a very fine condition (some spotting to few leaves). A very beautiful copy, superbly preserved.
- - First edition. Provenance: From the private library of J. L. Wagner, 1st Lieutenant Jagers, with his contemporary signature to title. A remarkable production, exceedingly rare. OCLC 72208232 records a single copy worldwide, that in Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. KVK lists British Library, Library of Congress, and Staatsbibliothek Berlin only. Union Catalog Northern Germany locates a copy in Helmut-Schmidt-Universität. HeBIS-Retro/Digitalisierte Zettelkataloge lists ULB Darmstadt and HLB Wiesbaden.
€ 1450 --
154 LANGLADE, Jacques de. Nelson. Biographie. Paris, Renaissance, 1990.AS NEW. Royal octavo. Pp. 441. Plus photo-plates. Glossary, bibliography, index. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. In mint condition.
- - ISBN 2856165788 ISBN 2 85616 578 8
€ 25 --
155 LE SÉNÉCAL, Baron [Charles]. Réponse au nom de la mémoire du général baron Le Sénécal, a la calomnie publiée par M. le baron Berthezène, dans un libelle en date du 27 Mai 1840. Paris, Delanchy, 1840.Octavo. Pp. 14, (1) verso blank. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, gilt leather lettering-piece to spine, original printed wrappers bound in. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In the same year also “Campagne de 1815. Fragments historiques réunis pour établir le fait de calomnie répandue dans un libelle du général Berthezène, publié en dat du 27 Mai 1840” was published in Paris (also offered by Librarium). Very rare. Not a single copy on OCLC worldwide. KVK locates National Library of France only.
€ 680 --
156 LIEBAERS, Herman. Waterloo, 1815. Prenten/Tekeningen/Documenten. Tentonstelling georganiseerd ter gelegenheid van de honderd vijftigste verjaardag van de slag. Brussel, Albert I, 1965.Crown quarto. Pp. vi, 85. plus 24 full-page plates. Original stiff pictorial wrappers with flaps. Fine copy.
- - Exhibition catalogue.
€ 60 --
157 LINDENBERG, Paul, and Walter Bloem. Hindenburg-Denkmal für das deutsche Volk. [ENLARGED EDITION]. Berlin, Vaterländischer Verlag Weller, (1933).Folio. Pp. 503. Fine tinted (helio)gravure portrait frontispiece, protected by tissue guard. Plus a large number of tinted (helio)gravure, halftone, and colour plates bound in. Profusely illustrated throughout. Head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials. Printed on fine, heavy paper. Set in Gothic type. Decorative endpapers. Top edge dyed yellow. Hardcover, original red cloth, lettering and coat-of arms gilt embossed, spine gilt. In a very fine condition. A very handsome copy, in an exemplary fine state. Excellent.
The first Hindenburg commemorative book was published in 1922, to celebrate his 75th birthday. It was republished in 1927, when he became 80. This enlarged edition, published in 1933 just a few months before Hindenburg’s death, is unique. The extra chapters it includes signify a decisive moment in history: the end of the Republic and the dawn of the Nazi regime. Much attention is given in the book to the rise of the Nazi party. Hitler’s portrait equals in its prominence to that of the fine frontispiece portrait of Hindenburg. The last photograph in the book shows the new Reichskanzler and the retiring president embarking on a horse-drawn cart trip, while the caption says: “Sie haben sich viel zu sagen.” A few months later, on August 2nd, 1934 Hindenburg died, not living to see the results of his misjudgement. He was buried as a national hero. A scarce edition in a remarkably fine condition.
€ 185 --
158 LUDWIG, Emil. Bismarck: Geschichte eines Kämpfers. Berlin, Rowohlt, 1927.Thick crown 8vo. Pp. 700, (1) publisher’s ad. Plus 21 halftone plates bound in. Chronology, bibliography, index. Hardcover, original half leather and patterned boards, spine with 5 raised bands, morocco label lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Very good condition. (Spine faded; scattered marginal spotting.)
- - First edition.
€ 25 --
159 MADELIN, Louis. Les cent-jours Waterloo. (Histoire du consulat et de l’Empire, XVI). Paris, Hachette, 1954.Royal octavo. Pp. 406. Original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition, entirely still unopened.
- - First edition.
€ 30 --
160 MAIZEROY, René. Illustrated by J. O. de Breville (JOB). La vie de soldat. Édition illustrée par JOB. Paris, Librairie Illustrée, ca. 1899.Crown quarto. Pp. 315. Half-title, illustrated title-page. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece. Plus 38 (engraved) plates, of which 8 are hand- and stencil coloured. Numerous illustrations, in various techniques, to the text; head- and tail-pieces. Hardcover, contemporary three-quarter crimson calf, red boards, spine with four gilt roll-tooled raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, gilt ornaments in remainder. Cloth hinges, marbled endpapers. Red sprinkled fore-edge. In about fine condition. (Cover bit rubbed along extremities, leather bit dull, light surface scratch to lower board; light spotting to prelims.) A very handsome copy, nicely bound, in fine interior.
- - First edition. Although at the time this book was published commercial prints were already made from a mechanically produced line block, the plates in this book, as well as many of the handsome illustrations throughout the text, are two-impression prints. First a traditionally engraved woodblock, carrying the main illustration, was printed, than a pattern, a shade, or a texture were added from etched standard metal. While lacking perhaps the freedom of line achieved by the first technique, where a line-drawing is transferred mechanically to metal, the plates and illustrations here keep the charm and authenticity of the old method. The hand-colouration adds a final touch of elegance. Rare. Both OCLC and KVK do not record a single copy worldwide. Not in the National Library of France, not in OLIS, nor Bodleian.
€ 950 --
161 MANN, Golo. Wallenstein. Frankfurt am Main, Fischer, n.d.Thick 8vo. Pp. 1126. Appendix, bibliography, notes, indices. Illustrated endpapers, printed in numerous colours. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine lettered in black and orange, with pictorial dust-jacket (spine panel faded). Top edge coloured. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
First edition. The biography of Albrecht, Count von Wallenstein, one of the ablest commanders of the Imperial forces, who was murdered by some of his officers in the aftermath of the battle at Lützen, 16 November 1632. ¶ “Est ist die umfassendste, vollständigste und aufschlußreichste Biographie Wallensteins, die wir wohl jemals erhalten werden. Und ist ein großes Werk der Literatur.” - Süddeutsche Zeitung.
€ 25 --
162 MARCKS, Erich, Ernst von Eisenhart Rothe, and Oskar Karstedt. Paul von Hindenburg: Als Mensch, Staatsmann, Feldherr. Berlin, Stollberg, (1932).Royal octavo. Pp. 222. Portrait frontispiece and facsimile. Photographic album with numerous (helio)gravure plates, printed in tinted ink on one side of the leaf with explanatory notes on the preceding verso. Map. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original brown cloth, lettered in black. In fine condition. (Old private ownership stamp). A lovely copy.
First edition. With an exquisitely produced set of gravures.
€ 30 --
163 MARDER, Arthur J. From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in War and Peace, 1915-1940. London, Oxford University Press, 1974.8vo. Pp. 301. Plus folding naval charts bound at rear. Portrait frontispiece. Halftone plates printed on different paper, bound in. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, original navy blue cloth, spine gilt. Blurb from dust-jacket loosely inserted. In excellent condition. (Naval battle scene clipped from dust-jacket and mounted on front flyleaf.) Fine, crisp copy, practically unused.
First edition.
€ 65 --
164 MARGERIT, Robert. Waterloo, 18 juin 1815. Trente journées qui ont fait la France. Paris, Gallimard, 1964.Thick octavo. Pp. 629. Plus folding maps and a suite of plates. Original stiff wrappers with the original red band “L’Europe contre la France”. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 40 --
165 MARSHALL-CORNWALL, General Sir James. Napoleon as Military Commander. London, Batsford & New Jersey, Nostrand, 1967.AS NEW. Royal octavo. Pp. 308. Frontispiece plate. Plus full-page plates and 18 (folding) maps. Chronological table, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket (this about very good). Book is a very fine copy in mint, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - First edition, first printing.
€ 25 --
166 MARTINET; BULLURA. [BY VARIOUS ETCHERS]. [PREMIER EMPIRE] LA FRANCE MILITAIRE: SUITE OF 12 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS [MILITARY UNIFORMS; SITES & LANDSCAPES]. CA. 1835.A SUITE OF 12 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS, on 6 single sheets, for “La France Militaire”. Overall size ca. 270 x 180 mm. With two impressions on each print, measuring ca. 90 x 110 mm each. Good impressions with ample margins all-round. In overall good condition (margins soiled & foxed to various degrees, affecting 2-3 images).
- - First edition. Martinet and Bullura, along others, are signed on the metal, succeeded by “del.” implying this is the artist from whose drawing the engraving or etching was made. Various craftsmen signatures, succeeded by “sculp.” meaning “carved”, implying he who has drawn on the metal. The prints, involving both etching and engraving, depict various scenes of uniformed soldiers and officers. Represented are Dragons de la Garde de Paris; Ingénieurs Geographes; Chasseur à cheval, Compagnie d’Elite; Officier d’ordonnance; and Maréchal de l’Empire. Furthermore included views of military life and some battle scenes. The accompanying general views of places and sites are all identified by name and location. An impressive visual representation of the military and landscapes of the Premier Empire (1805-1815). Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced Renaissance archival paper. Scarce.
€ 60 --
167 MARTINET. [BY VARIOUS ETCHERS]. [PREMIER EMPIRE] LA FRANCE MILITAIRE: SUITE OF 21 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS [MILITARY UNIFORMS & PORTRAITS]. CA. 1835.A SUITE OF 21 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS, on 7 single sheets, for “La France Militaire”. Overall size ca. 270 x 180 mm. Each print has 3 images; one ca. 95 x 110 mm, and two ca. 85 x 55 mm each, on a single impression. Good impressions with ample margins all-round. In overall good condition (margins soiled & foxed to various degrees, slightly affecting image here and there).
- - First edition. Martinet and Couché, along others, are signed on the metal, succeeded by “del.” implying this is the artist from whose drawing the engraving or etching was made. Various craftsmen signatures, succeeded by “sculp.” meaning “carved”, implying he who has drawn on the metal. The prints, involve both etching and engraving. Each depicts a single military uniform study, and two, very fine portraits of leading (military) personage. Represented are Chasseur and Vétéran of the Troupes Toscanes; Russian Tartares de la Garde and Cosaques de l’Oural; Tambour, Grenadier, and carabinier of the Russian Garde Imperiale; Sapeur and Tambour of the Infanterie; and officers of the Troupes Hongroises. There are also two military views, one of which is the battlefield scene of the Mort de Désaix. An impressive visual representation of the military and human landscape of the Premier Empire (1805-1815). Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced Renaissance archival paper. Scarce.
€ 70 --
168 MARTINET. [BY VARIOUS ETCHERS]. [PREMIER EMPIRE] LA FRANCE MILITAIRE: SUITE OF 6 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS. [BATTLEFIELD SCENES]. CA. 1835.A SUITE OF 6 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS FOR “LA FRANCE MILITAIRE”. OVERALL SIZE CA. 180 X 270 MM. IMAGE SIZE CA. 110 X 155 MM. GOOD IMPRESSIONS WITH AMPLE MARGINS ALL-ROUND. IN OVERALL GOOD CONDITION (MARGINS SOILED & FOXED TO VARIOUS DEGREES, affecting image of one print).
- - First edition. Signed on the metal by Martinet, succeeded by “del.” implying this is the artist from whose drawing the engraving or etching was made. Various craftsmen signatures, succeeded by “sculp.” meaning “carved”, implying he who has drawn on the metal. The prints, involving both etching and engraving, depict scenes from many battlefields and include images of Bataille de Hohenlinden; Bataille de Stockach; Siège et défense de Malte; Passagè du Danube; Combat de Dirnstein; and the Construction et Armement d’une Redoute. An impressive visual representation of the battles of the Premier Empire (1805-1815). Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced Renaissance archival paper. Scarce.
€ 60 --
169 MARTINET. [BY VARIOUS ETCHERS]. [PREMIER EMPIRE] LA FRANCE MILITAIRE: SUITE OF 7 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS. [BATTLEFIELD SCENES]. CA. 1835.A SUITE OF 7 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHINGS FOR “LA FRANCE MILITAIRE”. OVERALL SIZE CA. 180 X 270 MM. IMAGE SIZE CA. 110 X 155 MM. GOOD IMPRESSIONS WITH AMPLE MARGINS ALL-ROUND. IN OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION (MARGINS SOILED & FOXED TO VARIOUS DEGREES, not affecting image).
- - First edition. Signed on the metal by Martinet, succeeded by “del.” implying this is the artist from whose drawing the engraving or etching was made. Various craftsmen signatures, succeeded by “sculp.” meaning “carved”, implying he who has drawn on the metal. The prints, involving both etching and engraving, depict scenes from many battlefields and include images of Bataille de Caldiero; Bataille de Montébello; Bataille de Pozzolo; Attaque du Montefaccio; as well as the famous scenes of the snowy Passagè du Splugen; Passagè du Mont St. Bernard; and Passagè du Simplon. An impressive visual representation of the battles of the Premier Empire (1805-1815). Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced Renaissance archival paper. Scarce.
€ 75 --
170 MERCER, Cavalié, Journal de la campagne de Waterloo. (Les témoins de l’épopée 1. Mémoires, Souvenirs et Documents du Premier Empire). Paris, Plon, 1953.Octavo. Pp. x, 268. Plus 8 plates and 2 text illustrations. In the original publisher’s printed wrappers (worn), Untrimmed. Overall a very good copy.
- - First French edition. Translated by Maxime Valére.
€ 120 --
171 MITFORD, Nancy. Frederick the Great. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1970.Crown 4to. Pp. 304. Pictorial half-title. Colour plate frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates and text illustrations, many of which full- or double-page. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, original decorated black cloth, silver stamped, spine silver, with pictorial dust-jacket (price clipped). In excellent condition.
First edition.
€ 29 --
172 MONIN. ENGRAVED BY LAGUILLERMIE AND RAMBOZ. [PREMIER EMPIRE] LA FRANCE MILITAIRE: SUITE OF 9 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS [MAPS]. CA. 1835.A SUITE OF 9 ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS, on 7 single sheets, for “La France Militaire”. Overall size ca. 180 x 270 mm. Two prints have 2 impressions on each, measuring ca. 90 x 110. Good impressions with ample margins all-round. In overall good condition (margins soiled & foxed to various degrees, affecting some images).
- - First edition. Monin, as well as the engravers Laguillermie et Ramboz, are signed on the metal. Preserved in acid-free, pH-balanced Renaissance archival paper. Scarce.
€ 50 --
173 MÜHSAM, Kurt. Deutsche Heerführer im Kriege 1914: Ihr Werden und Wirken. Volumes I-II. Berlin, Conrad Haber, (1914).Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. Pp. 78; 78. Plus 5 full-page portraits to each volume; publisher’s ads. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original cloth-backed boards, cover lettered in gilt. Very good condition. (Private ownership stamp to each volume, endpapers bit yellowing, small abrasion to lower cover.)
Second, improved and expanded edition.
€ 120 --
174 MÜNGER, Rudolf. Der historische Zug der Bernerschützen zum Eidgenösssischen Schützenfest in Aaarau 1924. Als Ehrengeleite der Eidgenösssischen Schützenfahne in Bern und Aarau 18. und 19. Juli 1924. Le cortège historique des tireurs bernois. Escorte d’honneur de la bannière fédérale des tireurs, à Berne et Aarau. Bern, Francke, 1924.Oblong small quarto. Contains 57 full-page colour lithograph plates, printed on recto only, each captioned in German and French. Plus a list of contents, and 10 pp. explanatory text and chronology, in both German and French. In the original publisher’s illustrated card wrappers, bound with decorative cord. In a very good condition. Nice copy.
- - First edition. The history of the Swiss militia as depicted by renowned artist Rudolf Münger in handsome, colourful plates.
€ 65 --
175 NAYLOR, John. Waterloo. London, Batsford, 1960.Royal octavo. Pp. 208. Plus frontispiece and 34 other illustrations on plates, 3 (double-page) maps, illustrated tail-pieces. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 30 --
176 (NELSON, Admiral Lord Horatio). Letters from Admiral Lord Nelson to Hercules Ross, Esq., of Rossie, N.B., 1780-1802. No imprint, published “for private circulation only”, (1891).Crown octavo. Unpaginated, 20 leaves stapled as issues, first and last are blank. With title-page. Hardcover, bound in the original grey-blue cloth, lettered in black, text-block loose in binding, fingerprint to prelim. In overall fine condition.
- - First and only edition, published for private circulation only. Provenance: The John Alexander Ross’ copy with his handsome armorial bookplate, “Think On”, to the first free endpaper, and with his signature on title-page. The inscription on the first paste-down is dated 16th November, 1891, and according to J. Beale, Sydney, Australia, who has examined this copy and generously provided the genealogical data given herewith, has been written by Horatio Seftenberg John Ross, while presenting the book to his son, John Alexander. John Alexander Ross was a grandson of Horatio Ross and a brother of George Parrish Ross. Horatio Ross was born at Rossie Castle on 5 September 1801, son of Hercules Ross and Henrietta Ross (née Parish). Hercules Ross and Lord Nelson were close friends, and corresponded over the period 1780-1802. When Horatio Ross was born, his father named him after Lord Horatio Nelson. Nelson was one of Horatio Ross’ godfathers. On September 12th, 1801, Nelson, signing together with Bronte, wrote to Hercules Ross: “I congratulate you most sincerely on the birth of a son and heir, and from my heart I wish all the wealth and happiness you possess and all the honours which have fallen to my lot may be the young Horatio’s.” Loosely inserted is a manuscript note, written in ink on a stationary paper with the letterhead: “34, Sloane Court, S.W.3. Sloane 1913”, which reads: “The original letters were presented by admiral G. P. Ross C. B. to the ‘Victory’ museum, Portsmouth Dockyard.” Rear-Admiral George Parrish Ross was a grandson of Horatio Ross via the oldest son, Horatio Seftenberg John Ross. He entered the Royal Navy in 1888 on HMS Britannia; became Commander in 1908; Captain in 1914; Rear-Admiral in 1925. Ross served in Cape of Good Hope, Gambia Expedition (Gen West African Medal with clasp, 1894), Mediterranean fleet, HMS Surprise; the Balkan fleet on HMS Lord Nelson and at the Battle of Jutland, 1916. The identity of the author of the manuscript note is unclear. The luxurious 34 Sloane Court has been the residence of James Archibald Baiss, the only child of Reginald Sydney Habershon Baiss and Lucy Hope Baiss, née Hallowes. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Baiss enlisted in the Royal Artillery, becoming Captain in 1942. Between 1939-41 he served at the Home Defence, during 1942-44 he was British Military Mission att. Polish Army in the East, later renamed 2nd. Polish Corps. After the war he joined the Stock Exchange. Rossie Castle is near Montrose, on the East Coast of Scotland, about 35 miles north-east of Dundee. It was demolished in early 60’s. In 1891 the letters sent by Nelson to Hercules Ross were collected and published by the family in small edition for private circulation only. In his book “The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson” (1854), George Lathom Browne (1815-1892) writes: “No description of a man as he really is, surpasses that which is contained in the plain straightforward relation of his thoughts, feelings, acts, and intentions, in private letters designed for the perusal of those alone to whom they were addressed.” Extremely rare. Not a single copy located in OCLC, nor in KVK worldwide. Not in OLIS, Bodleian, nor in British Library. Not in British Union Catalog COPAC.
€ 975 --
177 NITSCHE, Georg. Österreichisches Soldatentum im Rahmen deutscher Geschichte. Berlin, Freytag, 1937.8vo. Pp. 292. Plus one folding map bound at rear, and 15 halftone plates. With 20 full-page illustrations and maps. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original green cloth. Fair. Overall complete, though not a very handsome copy.
First edition. With a nice set of illustrations.
€ 15 --
178 OQUILLAS, Pedro Ontoria, Luis Cola Benítez, Daniel García Pulido. Fuentes documentales del 25 de julio de 1797 de la victoria del General Gutiérrez, las tropas regulares y las milicias isleñas sobre la escuadra inglesa del Contralmirante Nelson. Recopilación, transcripción y notas. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ayuntamiento, 1997.AS NEW. Royal octavo. Pp. 413. Illustrated. Endpapers maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter cloth and decorated boards. In mint condition. A fresh-new, practically unused copy.
- - First edition. Scarce. ISBN 84 89350 17 5 ISBN 8489350175
€ 220 --
179 ORTENBURG, Georg. Mit Gott für König und Vaterland: Das preußische [preussische] Heer, 1807-1914. München, Bertelsmann, 1979.Royal 4to. Pp. 255. Bibliography. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations. Endpaper maps. Hardcover, original buckram, with pictorial dust-jacket (small shelf label). Preserved in original slipcase. As new. Bright copy, practically unused. Excellent.
First edition.
€ 105 --
180 PARKINSON, Roger. The Hussar General: The Life of Blücher, man of Waterloo. London, Peter Davies, 1975.Royal octavo. Pp. 264. With maps and plates. Sources, bibliography, index. Endpaper maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full sky blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition. excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 18 --
181 PEARS, Commander Randolph. British Battleships 1892-1957: The Great Days of the Fleets. London, Putnam, 1957.Crown quarto. Pp. xiii, 201. Frontispiece. Plus about 40 plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s navy blue cloth, spine gilt, bit marked, shelf label to spine, old institutional stamps and markings to prelims. in a very good condition, fine bright interior.
- - First edition.
€ 30 --
182 PFLUGK-HARTTUNG, J. v. (Editor), A. von Boguslawski, and R. Aschenborn. Plates by R. Knötel. Die Heere und Flotten der Gegenwart: Deutschland, Das Heer; Die Flotte. Berlin, Schaff & Grund, (1896).Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, iv, 596, (8) illustrated publisher’s catalogue and ads. Portrait frontispiece with a facsimile signature, with facing tissue guard. Half-title (long tear neatly mended). Plus 16 chromolithograph plates of fine uniform studies, flags and colours, insignia, accoutrements, and weapons; 3 plates with excellent photoxylograph (wood engravings from photographs) portraits of fine quality, set within decorative letterpress border; 3 photoxylograph plates; 10 halftone photographic plates, two of which are double-page, all printed on heavy paper, bound in, with tissue-guards. Large folding letterpress map with additional impression in second colour indicating troop positions (long tear neatly mended without use of paper, no loss) and 2 double-page letterpress maps bound in. Numerous line-drawn, engraved, photoxylographed, or halftone illustrations to the text; schematic military formations, tables. Footnotes, appendix, index. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original illustrated blue cloth, gilt stamped, spine lettered in gilt (bit faded), bevelled boards, all edges red, cloth ribbon marker. Decorative golden endpapers. In fine condition (stamp and signature). Overall a crisp, fresh copy with all plates surprisingly well preserved. Excellent.
First edition.
€ 155 --
183 PFLUGK-HARTTUNG, J. v., Joh. H. Been. 1813-1815. Geïllustreerde geschiedenis van den vrijheidsoorlog. Met 301 platen in den text, 43 kunstplaten en 17 bijlagen, benevens de geschiedenis van onze verlossing. Rotterdam, Bredée, ca. 1915.Royal quarto. Pp. viii, 397. Double-page tinted frontispiece.
Plus 43 fine (tinted) plates (some double-page), and 17 sheets of additional material, all printed on different paper tipped-in. With 301 illustrations to the text. Photographic head-pieces. Typographic initials.
Title-page printed in red and black. Hardcover, original pictorial cloth, pictorial spine. Decorative endpapers. In about fine condition. (Short splits at head of spine; a case or two of offsetting.) A very handsome copy with a rather bright interior.First Dutch edition. The original German edition was published in around 1918. Lavishly illustrated. A visual celebration, documenting in hundreds of fine images the German War for Independence against Napoleonic France. Includes a chapter on the Dutch fight for liberation. Noteworthy is the existence of copy (copies?) with complete different collation. Seemed to have been issued in pictorial wrappers, another copy which we stock opens with a different frontispiece, followed by a complete sequence of plates.
€ 155 --
184 PFLUGK-HARTTUNG, J. v., Joh. H. Been. 1813-1815. Geïllustreerde geschiedenis van den vrijheidsoorlog. Met 301 platen in den text, 43 kunstplaten en 17 bijlagen, benevens de geschiedenis van onze verlossing. Rotterdam, Bredée, ca. 1915.Royal quarto. Pp. viii, 397. Double-page tinted frontispiece.
Plus numerous fine (tinted) plates (some double-page), and number of sheets of additional material, all printed on different paper tipped-in. With 301 illustrations to the text. Photographic head-pieces. Typographic initials.
Title-page printed in red and black. Hardcover, brown cloth, original pictorial cover laid-down. In a very good condition. (Sporadic foxing affecting some leaves.) Nice copy, well preserved.First Dutch edition. The original German edition was published in around 1918. Lavishly illustrated. A visual celebration, documenting in hundreds of fine images the German War for Independence against Napoleonic France. Includes a chapter on the Dutch fight for liberation. Noteworthy is the complete different collation of this copy. Seemed to have been issued in pictorial wrappers, it opens with a different frontispiece, followed by a complete sequence of plates compared with the other copies we stock.
€ 155 --
185 PHILLIMORE, Augustus. The Last of Nelson’s Captains. (The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Parker). London, Harrison & Sons, 1891.Royal octavo. Pp. xi (verso blank), 641. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s ultramarine cloth, bit discoloured, spine gilt, sides blind-panelled, minor expert restoration to spine-ends, pencil annotations to last free endpaper. In overall fine condition. Excellent interior.
- - First edition. Sir Augustus Phillimore first published “The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir W. Parker” in three volumes (London, 1876-80 ). William Parker (1781-1866) entered the Navy in 1793 as a captain’s servant on the ship Orion. In 1862 he was appointed Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom, and in 1863 Admiral of the Fleet. - - Provenance: The Arthur Godley’s copy with his handsome armorial bookplate to first paste-down. John Arthur Godley, later 1st Baron Kilbracken (1847–1932) was the longest serving of the Permanent Under-Secretary’s of State for India. Having studied at Radley, Rugby, and Balliol college, Oxford, his first important role was acting as Assistant Private Secretary to W. E. Gladstone, then the Prime Minister, during the years 1872-1874. He was elected a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford for the period 1874-1881, while in 1880 he was appointed Commissioner for Inland Revenue, a position he held till 1882. Appointed Under-Secretary of State at the India Office in 1883, he remained there for 26 years, retiring in 1909. For his services he was created a Baron by King Edward VII became the first Lord Kilbracken. His autobiography, Reminiscences of Lord Kilbracken, was published in 1931, the year before he died. The book was later acquired by Francis W. Steer, Chichester, and his bookplate was added to the first paste-down. Francis W. Steer, MA., D.Litt., F.S.A., a noted bibliophile, wrote numerous books about the history of Essex and Chichester; edited the “Catalogue of manuscripts in the College of Arms”; compiled “The archives of New College, Oxford” and “Dictionary of land surveyors and local cartographers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1550-1850”; wrote also “The armorial bearings of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks of London”. Scarce. OCLC records just 10 copies worldwide. Another copy is in Bodleian, another in the British Library.
€ 585 --
186 POLLIO, Général Albert. (Général Goiran). Waterloo (1815). Avec de nouveaux documents. Traduit de l’Italien par Général Goiran. Paris, Charles Lavauzelle, (1908).Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 640. Plus 12 leaves of plates, including frontispiece portrait of Napoleon, portraits, illustrations, double-page facsimile. With a full-page map to text. Half title present. Appendices, bibliography. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter forest green shagreen and matching marbled boards, lightly rubbed, spine gilt, cloth French corners, cloth inner hinges, golden foliage endpapers. In fine condition. Excellent, crisp interior.
- - First French edition. Though undated, it is generally accepted that the book was published in 1908, two years after the publication of the original edition in Rome, by Casa Editrice Italiana. One bibliography we have consulted, however, attributes the date 1911, with reference to a previously published edition by Chapelot, in 1909. Translated from the Italian by François Louis Auguste Goiran, (1847-1927). Alberto Pollio (1852-1914). The collation of this copy, bound without extra material, is in accordance with the copies at Florida, Yale, and Princeton University Libraries, Catálogo Colectivo REBIUN, and Library Network of Western Switzerland. From the library of the late H. J. Wijsman, with his handsome bookplate, incorporating the header “1815”, the Napoleonic Royal Seal, and a miniature shadow-picture of a battalion led to battle by a mounted Napoleon.
€ 750 --
187 QUENNEVAT, J.-C. Préface d’André Masséna, Duc de Rivoli, Prince d’Essling. Atlas de la Grande Armée. Napoléon et ses campagnes 1803-1815. Paris & Bruxelles, Sequoia, 1966.AS NEW. Crown quarto. Pp. 315. Colour maps. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates; text illustrations. Endpaper maps. Bibliography, index. Set in triple columns. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green leatherette, decorated in gilt, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. Preserved in original slipcase. A very fine copy in mint, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - First edition. Numerous detailed maps; beautifully illustrated.
€ 160 --
188 RAAB, Karl. Entwicklung der Militärmusik vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. [Zinnfiguren]. Bad Reichenhall, Eikon, (1973).Quarto. Pp. 54. Copier produced edition as issued, printed on recto only. With over 100 schematic illustrations, depicting formation of various military orchestras and bands, with legend. Bibliography. Ring-bound brown card wrappers, with illustrated cover laid down. In fine condition.
- - Exceedingly scarce. A remarkable enterprise, intended for military model makers, collectors, and exhibition designers who wish to set their tin military musicians in the appropriate formation. NOTE: This item is not subject to return unless if found at variance with its description.
€ 80 --
189 REFF, Wilhelm. Geschichte des Infanterie-Regiments von Goeben (2. Rheinischen) nr. 28. [Mannschafts-Ausgabe]. Berlin, Mittler, 1890.Royal octavo. Pp. xx, 383. Composite collotype frontispiece with nine portraits. Plus two hand-coloured lithographs of uniform studies (one slightly smudged); one fine fold-out lithograph map printed in brown ink bound in; several facsimile letters; four (of five) large folding lithograph maps, three tipped-in and one in rear pocket. With letterpress maps, some full-page, to the text. Side-notes, appendices. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed boards with original printed wrappers and spine laid down. Good; inner hinges split but firm; other blemishes.
- - First edition. Scarce. OCLC records four copies only.
€ 175 --
190 RENÉE, Amédée. Les princes militaires de la maison de France. Contenant les états de services et les biographies de près de 300 princes; l’histoire généalogique et héraldique; des diverses branches de la dynastie Capétienne depuis Robert-le-Fort jusqu’a la révolution Francaise. EXTRA -LLUSTRATED COPY. Paris, Amyot, ca. 1848.EXTRA LLUSTRATED COPY. FULL TITLE: Les princes militaires de la maison de France. Contenant les états de services et les biographies de près de 300 princes; l’histoire généalogique et héraldique; des diverses branches de la dynastie Capétienne depuis Robert-le-Fort jusqu’a la révolution Francaise. - - Crown quarto. Pp. vii, (i), 504. Extra-illustrated by the later insertion of four double-page- and one single-page chromolithographed plates, heightened with gold, depicting heraldic insignia, arms, orders, medals, and flags. With numerous engraved heraldic illustrations throughout. Tables, footnotes, appendix, errata. Hardcover, contemporary half-cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. In good condition. (Rubbing to board edges, spine bit faded, some spotting.) Old bookplate to half-title.
- - First edition. The extra plates, tipped-in onto a paper stub within the Préface, are by H. Brevière and Ch. Millon de Montherlant, published by Ernest Meyer and Lemercier of Paris, respectively.
€ 285 --
191 RENKELL, Von. Geschichte des Garde-Jäger-Bataillons, 1744 bis 1894. Berlin, Mittler, 1894.Crown quarto. Pp. x, 396. Fine aquatint heliogravure frontispiece portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II, with his facsimile signature. Plus engraved portrait of Friedrichs des Großen, and six superb chromolithograph plates, finished by hand, all printed on heavy paper, each with facing tissue guard, bound-in. Plus ten folding lithograph maps and battle plans, mostly printed in two colours, some large, tipped-in or bound at rear. Approbation leaf with the Kaiser facsimile signature. Footnotes, seven appendices. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original decorated dark-green cloth, royal regiment’s crest gilt stamped within gilt border with four ornate corner-pieces, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, lower board blind stamped. Brown foliage endpapers. In fine condition. (Odd spot, spine ends very lightly rubbed.) A very handsome copy, in a fine state of preservation. Excellent.
- - Second, revised edition; the first published in 1889. A very impressive production covering the history of this famous battalion. The six uniform studies by G. Kriekel are particularly charming. The chromolithographs are finely printed by C. L. Keller of Berlin with rich, dense dyes, and the hand-finishing touches add depth and gloss. With excellent cartography. OCLC does not record a single copy. Exceedingly scarce in any condition, rare indeed in such an excellent state.
€ 975 --
192 REY, Alfred, and Louis Féron. Histoire du corps des gardiens de la paix. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1896.Quarto. Pp. x, ii. Plus 41 hand-coloured lithograph plates, tinted frontispiece plate, and 2 tinted plates. Plus 27 engraved or halftone plates. With numerous engraved illustrations, portraits, maps, and facsimiles to the text. Title printed in red and black. Engraved head- and tail-pieces. Footnotes. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. With green ribbon marker. Hardcover, contemporary three-quarter shagreen leather and marbled boards, spine decorated with lettering and medallions embossed in gilt between gilt-embossed rules. In fine condition. A very handsome copy, in fine state of preservation, handsomely bound. Excellent.
First edition. A remarkably detailed account, very well illustrated, on the history and work of the Paris Corps of the Peacekeeping Force.
€ 285 --
193 ROBINSON, Charles N. (Editor). Navy & Army Illustrated. A Magazine Descriptive and Illustrative of Everyday Life in the Defensive Services of the British Empire - A Pictorial Record of the World’s News. Volumes I-III. First Series, Numbers 1-37. Plus All Special Number Issues. [3 VOLUMES]. London, Hudson & Kearns; Newnes, 1895-97.Three volumes. Folio. Pp. 316; 320; 356. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous full-page photo-plates, smaller plates, fine artwork, and text illustrations. Colour frontispiece. Indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in olive-green cloth with original illustrated gilt covers and spines, heightened with red dye added by hand, laid-down. In fine condition. Excellent set in exceptionally fine state of preservation.
- - First edition. First 3 volumes of the First Series, including all Special Number issues: Volume I, 1-13; Volume II, 14-26; Volume III, 27-37.
€ 295 --
194 ROBINSON, Charles N. (Editor). Navy & Army Illustrated. A Magazine Descriptive and Illustrative of Everyday Life in the Defensive Services of the British Empire. Volume V, First Series, Numbers 49-59. London, Hudson & Kearns; Newnes, 1897-98.Folio. Pp. 364. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous full-page photo-plates, smaller plates, fine artwork, and text illustrations. Index (lacks one leaf). Hardcover, olive-green cloth with original illustrated gilt cover and spine, heightened with red dye added by hand, laid-down. In fine condition. Excellent copy in exceptionally fine state of preservation.
- - First edition. Fifth volume of the First Series, contains numbers 49-59, plus all Special Number issues.
€ 125 --
195 ROCCA, M. de. [Albert Jean Michel Rocca]. Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne. Londres, Gide, 1814.Royal octavo. Pp. 384. Errata. half-title present. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter forest green morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, French corners, corner-tips bit rubbed, marbled endpapers, minute chip at head of spine, contemporary stamp to title. In a very good condition. Nice copy.
- - Second edition. Albert Jean Michel Rocca (1788-1818) was a French Hussar Officer in the Legion of Honour. His memoire of the war between the French and Spanish in the Peninsula is considered a classic.
€ 390 --
196 ROCCA, M. de. [Albert Jean Michel Rocca]. Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne. Londres, John Murray, 1815.Royal octavo. Pp. 426. Appendix. Hardcover, handsomely bound in half linen over boards. Untrimmed wide-margined copy. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - The first London edition. A year earlier, the Paris edition was published by Gide (with 384 pages). Albert Jean Michel Rocca (1788-1818) was a French Hussar Officer in the Legion of Honour. His memoire of the war between the French and Spanish in the Peninsula is considered a classic. Contains the “Appendix Contenant des Notes justificatives et diverses Lettrese ou Extraits de Lettres, relatives aux Affaires d’Espagne et de Portugal” (pages 383-426). From the library of J. W. Six with his bookplate to first paste-down. Scarce. OCLC lists just 8 copies of this edition worldwide, compared with 23 copies of the Paris edition.
€ 420 --
197 ROGERS, H. C. B. Die Armee Napoleons. Stuttgart, Motorbuch, 1976.8vo. Pp. 296. With a number of halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in; full-page battle maps and plans. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine lettered in black, with pictorial dust-jacket, printed on verso with publisher’s ads (this with minor tears). In a very good condition, bright and clean.
First German edition. Nicely illustrated.
€ 45 --
198 ROSINSKI, Herbert. Edited by Gordon A. Craig. Introduction by Carl Hans Hermann. Die Deutsche Armee: Eine Analyse. Düsseldorf, Econ, 1970.8vo. Pp. 336. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, original metallic grey cloth, spine in black and gilt, with illustrated dust-jacket (very good), printed on the insides with publisher’s ads. Book in excellent condition. Fine copy.
First German edition.
€ 28 --
199 ROY, Jules. Turenne. Sa vie, les institutions militaires de son temps. Paris, Georges Hurtrel, 1884.Crown quarto. Pp. xxii, 520. Plus 5 fine chromolithograph plates, one of which is frontispiece and one is double-page, printed by Lemercier. Plus 6 double-page maps and views, some tinted. All are protected with tissue-guards. With almost 500 engraved illustrations, maps, views, portraits, etc. throughout the text, many of which are full-page. Elaborate head- and tail-pieces and initials. Notes, index. Hardcover, handsomely bound by Paul Souze in elaborately decorated quarter crimson morocco and embossed matching cloth; spine embossed, decorated, illustrated, and lettered in gilt, publisher’s imprint at foot; upper cover with large allegorical illustration within ornate frame and double-ruled border, binder signature, all in gilt; lower cover with central panel with publisher’s imprint within similar gilt frame and border. All edges gilded; peacock-tail pattern marbled endpapers. In a very fine condition. A most attractive, rather impeccable copy.
- - Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne-Bouillon, Vicomte de Turenne (1611-1675). In the course of a 50-year career, Turenne showed himself a master strategist and tactician, and was one of the greatest military commanders who led the armies of Louis XIV to a succession of victories. From 1643 he was marshal of France. A remarkable production, beautifully preserved, reproducing the works of several renowned artists, among which are the painters Lix and Adrien Marie, the lithographer Nordmann, the engravers Gillot, Lepere, Moller, and others.
€ 375 --
200 RUSSELL, W. Clark. Pictures from the Life of Nelson. London, James Bowden, 1897.Crown octavo. Pp. xxvii, (iii), 301. Aquatint photogravure frontispiece portrait with facing tissue-guard. Plus 7 photo-plates and one full-page facsimile. Illustrated title-page, printed in red and black. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full emerald morocco, a little rubbed, sides with blind-tooled panels within double-ruled gilt frame, spine gilt-decorated in compartments between raised band, maroon morocco lettering-piece lettered in gilt, spine chafed and a little worn, upper joint restored; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. In a very good internal condition (old inscriptions, dated 1900, to first free endpaper).
- - First edition. W. Clark Russell (1844-1911) was a British author who wrote predominantly about the sea. He published the novels “The Frozen Pirate” (London, 1887) in 2 volumes; and “The Death Ship: A Strange Story” (London, 1888) in 3 volumes, as well as numerous short stories. select a SoldWhen... 0
201 RUSSELL, W. Clark. Pictures from the Life of Nelson. London, James Bowden, 1897.Crown octavo. Pp. xxvii, (iii), 301, (5) publisher’s ads. Aquatint photogravure frontispiece portrait with facing tissue-guard. Plus 7 photo-plates and one full-page facsimile. Illustrated title-page, printed in red and black. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, upper board decorated with hand-painted marine signalling flags, gilt lettering, spine with gilt embossed medal (faded), some wear to spine ends, inner hinges starting. In a very good condition. Handsome copy.
- - First edition. W. Clark Russell (1844-1911) was a British author who wrote predominantly about the sea. He published the novels “The Frozen Pirate” (London, 1887) in 2 volumes; and “The Death Ship: A Strange Story” (London, 1888) in 3 volumes, as well as numerous short stories.
€ 100 --
202 SAINT-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de. Dessinées par R. de Moraine. Histoire populaire de la Garde Impériale. Illustrée de 41 gravures a part. Avec types coloriés a l’aquarelle. Paris, Adolphe Delahays, 1854.Royal octavo. Pp. 482. Complete with a total of 41 engraved plates, including a full-length, steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Napoleon, 16 hand-coloured engravings on 8 plates, and 32 full-page engraved plates, all outside the pagination. Hardcover, handsomely bound in contemporary quarter shagreen and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt stamped armorial illustration to each compartment, gilt lettering direct in 2nd compartment, marbled endpapers, with the original engraved wrappers bound in. Untrimmed; sporadic foxing throughout text, not affecting plates. A very handsome copy in fine condition.
- - From the private library of Mr [Master of Laws] E. Bonn, with his bookplate. OCLC 43757954 lists New York Public Library and University of North Carolina only. KVK adds Union Catalog Italy and Union Catalog of Canada. No records found on French Union Catalog. Émile Marco de Saint-Hilaire (d. 1887); Louis-Pierre-René Demoraine (b. 1816). (R. Caldwell, “Era of Napoleon” (variant); G. Davois, “Bibliothèque napoleonienne francaise”, v. 3, p. 157).
€ 400 --
203 SCHEER, Admiral R. Vom Segelschiff zum U-Boot: Die lebenserinnerungen des Siegers vom Skagerrak. Leipzig, Quelle & Meyer, (1925).8vo. Pp. xi, 380, (6) publisher’s ads. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated title-page, printed in blue and black. Plus a number of halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Two fold-out naval charts, one of which is coloured. Sketches to the text. Hardcover, original richly decorated blue cloth, illustrations gilt-stamped, spine decorated gilt, with dust-jacket (chipped). In a very good condition indeed. (A spot or two to top edge, old inscription to front flyleaf blank.) Fine copy.
First edition.
€ 35 --
204 SCHMID, E. v., P. Rolbe. Das französische Generalstabswerk über den Krieg 1870/71, Wahres und Falsches. Heft 11-13: Der Feldzug der Nordarmee. Teil I: Villers-Bretonneux; Teil II: Pont-Noyelles (Schlacht an der Hallue); Teil III: Bapaume. Leipzig, Friedrich Engelmann, 1912-14.Three volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 202, plus 2 large folding maps (one halftone), letterpress map to the text; 230, (2) publisher’s ads, plus 2 folding lithographed maps; 210, plus 5 folding lithographed maps, letterpress map to the text. Footnotes. Set in Gothic type. Original mustard wrappers lettered in black, shelf labels to spines. Uncut. Vols. II+III entirely unopened. In a very good condition (old institutional stamps and marking, wraps bit dusty, rubbed). Excellent set, practically unused, with crisp sets of maps.
First edition. Exceedingly rare.
€ 225 --
205 SCHOM, Alan. Geoffrey Bennett. Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805. [AND:] Nelson the Commander. [LOT OF 2 BOOKS]. London, Michael Joseph, 1990; New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972.Lot of 2 books. The first, by Schom (1990), is royal octavo pp. x, 421. Plus photo-plates. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Endpaper maps. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine gilt, without dust-jacket. In fine condition (a note or two, at the end of the book, is heightened in yellow). The second, by Bennett (1972) is octavo, pp. 322. Illustrated throughout, endpapers maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Original red cloth, with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Two excellent copies.
€ 25 --
206 SCHÖNPFLUG, Fritz, Ulrich Ewald, and Minna Pixner. Preußens [Preussens] Gloria. Wien, Tusch, 1977.Royal 8vo. Pp. 64. With 24 colour plates. Hardcover, original pictorial cloth. In new condition. Excellent.
First edition.
€ 75 --
207 SÉGUR, Général comte de. Histoire de Napoléon et de la grande-armée pendant l’année 1812. I: Toms premier; II: Tome second. [TWO VOLUMES]. Bruxelles, P. J. de Mat, 1825.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 314; 336, 4 publisher’s catalogue, plus stipple engraved frontispiece portrait of Michel Ney and one facsimile plate. Plus large folding lithograph map, hand-coloured, bound at end, slightly stained. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, rubbed, cloth French corners, spines gilt, sprinkled edges, paper on boards abraded in places, different marbled paper on back cover of one volume. In a very good condition. Very good interiors, tightly bound.
- - Fourth edition.
€ 120 --
208 SFEMENOW, Wladimir. Unser Lohn. Berlin, Mittler, 1910.Royal 8vo. Pp. x, 140. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards with original illustrated cover laid down. In a very good condition. (Old institutional stamps to cover and prelims, shelf label to spine.)
Sequel to “Ratzplata” und “Die Schlacht bei Tsuschima”.
€ 30 --
209 SHAKESPEAR, L. W. History of the 2nd King Edward’s Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles). Volume I. Aldershot, Gale & Polden, 1950.Crown quarto. Pp. xv, 150. Portrait frontispiece. Plus a number of halftone and colour plates printed on different paper; 3 extending lithographed battle plans, two of which coloured; and a large, folding coloured lithographed map, bound-in. Bibliography, 9 appendices. Hardcover, original green and red cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy, superbly preserved.
Second edition, first published 1912.
€ 125 --
210 SIBORNE, H. T. (Editor). The waterloo Letters: A Selection from Original and hitherto Unpublished Letters, Bearing on the Operations of the 16th, 17th, and 18th June, 1815, by Officers Who Served in the Campaign. London, Arms and Armour, 1983.Royal octavo. Pp. 415. Plus 5 folding maps, printed on 3 sheets, bound at end. Illustrated with numerous maps and plans. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent, crisp copy, practically unused.
- - First published By Cassel, London, 1891.
€ 80 --
211 (SOUTHEY, Robert). Life of Horatio, Lord Viscount Nelson, &c. &c. &c. (Abridged from Southey, With Consent of the Proprietor). London, Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1822.Small octavo. Pp. 249, (1) publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, bound in the original full marbled calf by F. Remnant, with his stamp, publisher’s blind-stamp within oval garland to upper board, spine lettered direct and gilt ruled, a little worn and restored, gilt turn-ins, corner-tips rubbed, lower inner hinge cracked but firm, upper inner hinge restored, all edges sprinkled. An attractive copy in overall fine internal condition.
- - First edition thus. Robert Southey (1774-1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and one of the so-called “Lake Poets”. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries such as William Wordsworth, Southey’s verse enjoys enduring popularity. Born in Bristol, he was educated at Westminster School (from which he was expelled for writing a magazine article condemning flogging) and Balliol College, Oxford. (Of his time at Oxford, Southey was later to say “All I learnt was a little swimming... and a little boating.”) He published his first collection of poems in 1794, and continued publishing over 20 major works throughout his life.
€ 590 --
212 SOUTHEY, Robert. M. Cordemans (Editor). Wij Schreven 1815... Dagboek van een rondreis in de nederlanden in den herfst van 1815. Antwerpen, Standaard, 1946.Crown quarto. Pp. 136. Plus frontispiece portrait and 11 other illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter cloth and gilt decorated boards, gilt lettering to spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First Ducth edition.
€ 60 --
213 TANERA, Carl. Illustrated by Ernst Zimmer. Die Befreiungskriege 1813 bis 1815. München, Oskar Beck, 1913.Crown octavo. Pp. viii, 392, (8) publisher’s ads. Plus 15 halftone plates including frontispiece, 4 folding lithographed maps, printed in two- and three colours, bound in. Title printed in red and black. Decorative initials. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original decorated buckram, printed in red and black. Top edge red. In a very good condition (cloth lightly foxed, private ownership stamp). Clean interior, crisp maps.
With a nice collection of Zimmer’s lively battlefield scenes, beautifully reproduced, and a nice set of maps.
€ 65 --
214 TERRAINE, John. A. F. Fremantle. Trafalgar. [LOT OF 3 BOOKS]. New York, Putnam’s Sons, 1933.Lot of 3 books on the history of the battle of Trafalgar. The first, by Terraine (Ware, Wordsworth, 1998), is a crown quarto pp. 205, (4), profusely illustrated throughout. Stiff pictorial wrappers, in fine condition. The second, by Fremantle (1933) is octavo, pp. 168, with frontispiece and other plates. Hardcover, original cloth, in fine condition.
- - ADDED: “Ramage at Trafalgar” by Dudley Pope (London, Secker & Warburg, 1986), hardcover.
€ 25 --
215 TERRAINE, John.; W. A. James. Trafalgar. [AND:] The Durable Monument: Horatio Nelson. [LOT OF 2 BOOKS]. London, Longmans, Green, 1948.Lot of 2 books on Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar. The first, by Terraine, (Abingdon, Purnell, 1976) has pp. 205, (4). Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page. Text illustrations. Endpaper maps. Hardcover, red cloth, spine gilt, without dust-jacket. In a very fine condition. The second, by James, has pp. 312. It has a beautiful (helio)gravure frontispiece, full-page maps and some excellent plates, also in (helio)gravure. Hardcover, with dust-jacket. In a very good condition. Two excellent copies.
€ 30 --
216 THIRIAR, James. Waterloo. Bruxelles, A. de Boeck, 1914.Oblong crown quarto. Unpaginated (54pp). Introduction with large illustrated head- and tail-pieces, and 25 leaves of plates, each printed with text on verso. Decorative title-page, half-title present (old inscription to corner). Hardcover, bound in half cloth and paper over boards, with the original pictorial wrappers, illustrated by Thiriar, printed in red and black, laid-down. Light dumpmark in inner corner, some stickiness to inner corner of few leaves as a result, but overall in fine condition.
- - First edition. James Thiriar (1889-1965) was a prolific artist who painted and drew extensively military scenes, particularly uniform studies. In 1938 he was commissioned by the Belgian King to design the new uniforms of the Royal Guard. His design, inspired by the uniforms of the gendarmerie before 1914, was a great success, much admired by the King and people of Belgium. From the library of the late H. J. Wijsman, with his handsome bookplate, incorporating the header “1815”, the Napoleonic Royal Seal, and a miniature shadow-picture of a battalion led to battle by a mounted Napoleon. Very rare. KVK locates just 2 copies, in British Library and in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München. OCLC 64286309 adds a single copy, in Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen. A facsimile reprint appeared in 2006.
€ 500 --
217 THIRY, Jean. Waterloo. Paris, Berger Levrault, 1947.Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 324. With 4 (double-page) maps. Hardcover, bound in half red cloth and matching boards, title labels to cover and spine. In fine condition.
- - Second edition.
€ 45 --
218 TIRPITZ, Alfred von. Erinnerungen [Alfred von Tirpitz]. Leipzig, Koehler, 1919.Octavo. Pp. xii, 526, (2) publisher’s ads. With (helio)gravure portrait frontispiece, printed in brown ink; facsimile signature. Footnotes. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s purple boards, lettered in white, Spine plasticized. In good condition.
- - First edition. A memoir of one of the most able naval administrators of modern history and the architect of the Imperial German Navy that fought World War I.
€ 15 --
219 TRADIEU, Ambroise. Relation anglaise de la bataille de Waterloo, ou du Mont Saint-Jean, et des événemens qui l’ont précédée ou suivie, accompagnée des Rapports français, prussien et espagnol, d’un Plan très exact de la Bataille, et d’une Carte générale du Théâtre de la Campagne: ces deux Planches très bien coloriées; traduite sur la deuxième édition publiée à Londres en septembre 1815. Seconde édition, revue et augmentée d’une vue en couleur, de la Ferme de la Belle Alliance, dessinée deux jours après la Bataille. Paris, Tradieu, Courcier, Delaunay, Fillet, Treuttel et Wurtz, Magimel, 1815.Octavo. Pp. 87. Includes an “Avertissement du traducteur”. Plus a large, folding sheet of ca. 60 x 40 cm, printed with engraved general map of the theatre of war, and a detailed plan, by Tradieu, both hand-coloured, with a hand-coloured legend. Half-title present, with old minute paper label at foot. Disbound; dog-eared, half-title (age toned and edge frayed), title, and map loose. Still a desirable copy, generally very clean, fine map, and with ample margins all round. Very good.
- - Second, revised edition. Provenance: Colonel Boreel des Hussards Hollandais’ copy, with, on verso of half-title, his ownership inscription and coat-of-arms bookplate. It incorporates a lion passant guardant, a chevron between three bugle horns stringed, and a small shield (palm) with underneath the initials “BvH” (i.e. “Boreel van Hussaren”). Ambroise Tardieu (1788-1841). Scarce, with a very fine provenance.
€ 1100 --
220 TROELTSCH, Rudolf. Deutschlands Flotte im Entscheidungskampf: Eine Einführung der Laien in das Wesen des modernen Seekrieges. Berlin, Mittler, 1914.Crown octavo. Pp. xi, 152. Plus a number of photographic plates, printed in tinted ink, bound in. Fold-out naval chart, several schematic drawings to the text. Index. Hardcover, original pictorial boards printed in red an blue. In fine condition. (Old ownership signature.) A very handsome copy.
- - First edition.
€ 45 --
221 TROTHA, Adolf von. Großadmiral [Grossadmiral] von Tirpitz. Breslau, Korn, 1933.Crown 8vo. Pp. 181, (6) publisher’s catalogue. Portrait frontispiece. Plus one plate. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original black cloth, lettered in white. In fine condition. (Private ownership stamp, signature.) Excellent copy.
First edition.
€ 35 --
222 UXKULL, Boris. Armeen und Amouren. Ein Tagebuch aus Napoleonischer Zeit. Reinbeck bei Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1965.8vo. Pp. 322. Frontispiece. Photo plates; fold-out map. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original brown cloth gilt, decorated spine, with pictorial dust-jacket. In a very good condition. Handsome copy.
First edition.
€ 19 --
223 VIVIEN, L., Lucien Bessières, D. Marcolino Prat, Émile Marco de saint-Hilaire. Illustrations by H. Belange, E. Lamy, De Moraine, Ch. Vernier. Histoire de Napoléon, du Consulat et de l’Empire. AND: Histoire de la familie Bonaparte. AND: Biographies des Grands Hommes et des personnages remarquables qui ont vécu sous l’Empire. AND: Histoire anecdotique, politique et militaire de la Garde Impériale. Volumes I-VI. COMPLETE. With EXTRA PLATES. Paris, Penaud, (1847).6 VOLUMES. COMPLETE. WITH EXTRA PLATES. FULL TITLE-LIST AS FOLLOWS: Histoire de Napoléon, du Consulat et de l’Empire. AND: Histoire de la familie Bonaparte. AND: Biographies des Grands Hommes et des personnages remarquables qui ont vécu sous l’Empire. AND: Histoire anecdotique, politique et militaire de la Garde Impériale. Volumes I-VI. - - Royal octavo. Pp. 302, 316, 332, 336, 344, 345-688. Engraved frontispiece to each volume. Plus a total of 31 full-page, contemporary hand-coloured plates of uniforms studies, many heightened with gold, and 51 full-page steel-engraved plates (inc. frontispieces) of battlefield views and of military personage. All plates printed on thick paper, often protected by tissue-guards, bound-in. This number includes 2 extra, finely engraved plates bound at the end of Volume I, not called-for in the “Placement des Gravures” list. General index in Volume IV. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half crimson morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Despite some flaws (worn spines restored, a piece chipped from head of one spine; boards rubbed, bit chafed at corners; text leaves sometime considerably foxed) a rather handsome set with nicely preserved plates.
- - First edition. The complete opus, written by several authors and embellished by some of the most outstanding illustrators, engravers, and draughtsmen of the time. All the plates are present and bound in their rightful place, with additional plates added. A lovely set, exceedingly scarce.
€ 875 --
224 VOGT, Herrmann. Illustrated by R. Knötel. Das Buch vom Deutschen Heere. Dem deutschen Volke gewidmet. Bielefeld, Velhagen & Klasing, 1886.Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 569. Beautifully illustrated with 144 finely engraved illustrations by R. Knötel. Illustrated head- and tail-pieces. Fine illustrated device to title. Hardcover, original elaborately decorated cloth, upper cover embossed with illustrations in blind, black, and gilt within ornate border, corners gilt embossed, decorative spine illustrated and gilt lettered, lower cover panelled in blind. All edges dyed red, foliage-green chalked endpapers. In fine condition. A very handsome copy in exceptionally fine state of preservation.
- - First edition. With the charming illustrations of R. Knötel.
€ 120 --
225 WAGNER, Eduard. Tracht, Wehr und Waffen im Dreissigjährigen [Dreißigjährigen] Krieg. Hanau, Dausien, 1980.Royal 8vo. Pp. 296. Bibliographies. With over 1000 watercolour illustrations, mostly on full-page. Hardcover, original cloth, with dust-jacket (very good, small shelf label). In fine condition. Excellent copy.
First German edition. A remarkably well-detailed and thorough visual account - a catalogue, really - of the men, animals, weapons, and equipment which were part of the 30-Year War. Wagner painstakingly illustrates and explains such minute details which no other study attempts to cover. This is a wonderful sourcebook for military and art historians, museum, theatre and film designers, model builders and collectors. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 320 --
226 WARNER, Philip. Army Life in the ’90s [ninety’s]. London, Hamlyn, 1975.Royal 4to. Pp. 144. Profusely illustrated throughout. Hardcover, original copper cloth, spine gilt, with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent, flawless copy, practically unused.
First edition. The British Army at the end of nineteenth century as represented on the pages of “Naval and Army Illustrated”.
€ 28 --
227 WEDGWOOD, C. V. Der Dreißigjährige [Dreissigjährige] Krieg. München, List, 1967.Crown 8vo. Pp. 517. Frontispiece folding map, printed in numerous colours. Some maps to the text. Notes, index. Hardcover, original orange cloth, spine lettered in black, with dust-jacket (this very good, spine panel sunned). In fine condition. Excellent copy.
First German edition.
€ 20 --
228 WELSCHINGER, Henri. Le Maréchal Ney, 1815. Paris, Plon, 1893.Royal octavo. Pp. iv, 427. Plus 2 fine aquatint heliogravure portraits, one of which is a frontispiece, both after Gérard, printed by the Heliographers firm of Lemercier. half-title present, publisher’s catalogue printed on verso. Footnotes. Hardcover, bound in half cloth and marbled boards, cloth bit faded. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. From the library of the late H. J. Wijsman, with his handsome bookplate, incorporating the header “1815”, the Napoleonic Royal Seal, and a miniature shadow-picture of a battalion led to battle by a mounted Napoleon.
€ 100 --
229 WEYGAND, Général. Histoire de l’armée Française. Paris, Flammarion, 1938.Quarto. Pp. 395. Plus (Helio)gravure frontispiece. Illustrated title-page and final page. Plus 12 full-colour or tinted (helio)gravure plates. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous illustrations, printed in (helio)gravures, reproducing art, maps, artifacts, and documents, including a double-page artwork. Illustrated initials, head- and tail-pieces. Bound in the original stiff-card binding with integrated dust-jacket printed in red, with armorial decoration embossed in silver onto cover and spine; small contemporary shelf label. In about fine condition. A remarkably neat copy internally.
- - First, limited edition. Exceptionally rich in superbly reproduced illustrations.
€ 95 --
230 WHARTON, Lieutenant W. J. L. A Short History of H.M.S. “Victory”. With particulars of the Battle of Trafalgar and the Death of Lord nelson, gathered from various sources. Portsmouth, Charpentier, 1923.Duodecimo. Pp. 46. Frontispiece. Plus full-page plates and battle plans, text illustration. Illustrated head-piece. Handsome publisher’s device to verso of title. Original printed wrappers, cloth spine. In a very good condition.
- - Sold for the benefit of the Royal naval and Marine Orphan Home. Written by Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, K.C.B., it was probably published for the first time in 1878 by Griffin, Portsmouth, and went through several editions, all varied. Scarce. OCLC lists just one copy of the 1904 edition; another one of the 1908 edition, but not a single copy of this edition worldwide. British Library has a copy of the 1888 edition. No copy in OLIS nor Bodleian.
€ 120 --
231 WHARTON, Lieutenant W. J. L. A Short History of H.M.S. “Victory”. With particulars of the Battle of Trafalgar and the Death of Lord nelson, gathered from various sources. Portsmouth, Charpentier, 1923.Duodecimo. Pp. 46. Frontispiece. Plus full-page plates and battle plans, text illustration. Illustrated head-piece. Handsome publisher’s device to verso of title. Original printed wrappers, these marked and a little chipped, old signature at top, else in a very good condition.
- - Sold for the benefit of the Royal naval and Marine Orphan Home. Written by Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, K.C.B., it was probably published for the first time in 1878 by Griffin, Portsmouth, and went through several editions, all varied. Scarce. OCLC lists just one copy of the 1904 edition; another one of the 1908 edition, but not a single copy of this edition worldwide. British Library has a copy of the 1888 edition. No copy in OLIS nor Bodleian. select a SoldWhen... 0
232 WILSON, Robert Thomas. History of the British Expedition to Egypt; to Which is Subjoined, a Sketch of the Present State of That Country and Its Means of Defence. Volume II. London, Printed by C. Roworth, and Sold by T. Egerton, Military Library, 1803.Two parts in one volume. Crown octavo. Pp. (iv), 129 (verso blank); 131- 314. Plus 4 folding tables (neat repair to one). Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled edges, spine worn, upper board practically detached. A very good interior (signature to first free endpaper).
- - Fourth edition. Volume II of two.
€ 90 --
233 WROCHEM, P. von, and D. Haevernick. Geschichte des Großherzoglich [Grossherzoglich] Mecklenburgischen Füsilier-Regiments Nr. 90, 1788-1888. Berlin, Mittler, 1888.Octavo. Pp. xi, 406. Fine chromolithograph frontispiece. Plus one other chromolithograph plate bound-in. Plus three folding lithograph maps, one of which printed with additional colour, tipped-in at rear. With an appendix listing the Regiment’s officers. With the 1788 Regiment’s badge at the opening leaf; that of 1888 at the end. Illustration to the text. Tables. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original blue cloth with a Royal regiment’s crest gilt stamped and hand-painted in red, set within triple-rule silver panel and blind border; lower cover silver stamped; spine lettered and decorated in silver. All edges gilt; fine golden patterned endpapers. In about fine condition. (Neat minute paper repair on blank verso; some foxing to last leaves.) A very handsome copy, exceptionally well preserved. Excellent.
First edition. With the neat, contemporary signature of J. L. Wagner, 1st Lieutenant Jagers. A remarkable production, exceedingly rare. The first part of the book covers the Regiment’s history from 1788 to 1867; the second part that from 1867 to 1888. The two lovely chromolithographs are group uniform studies by G. Kriekel, handsomely printed by C. L. Keller of Berlin. With nice cartography. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 750 --
234 ZIMMERMANN, Wilhelm. Geschichte des großen Bauernkriegs. Nach den Urkunden und Augenzeugen, I-II. Neue ganz umgearbeitete Auflage. [TWO VOLUMES]. Stuttgart, Rieger, 1856.Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xviii, 518; 610. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, handsome gilt ruled spines, bit stained, crimson morocco lettering-piece to each. Foxed as usual due to paper quality, else a lovely set in a very good condition.
- - New, completely revised edition. The German Peasants’ War of 1524-1525 involved an estimated 300,000 peasant rebels. cContemporary estimates put the dead at 100,000. It was Europe’s largest and most widespread popular uprising prior to the French Revolution of 1789. Wilhelm Zimmermann (1807-1878). See also: Norbert Conrads: Wilhelm Zimmermann. Ein Stuttgarter Historiker. (Stuttgart, 1998).
€ 180 --
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