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Patents for Inventions. Abridgements of Specifications. Class 92, Ordnance & Machine Guns. Period 1855 [to] 1904.
Eight vols. bound in two, approx. 1105pp., 4to, profusely illustrated throughout. Patent Office.
1896-1907.
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The patents for various weapons & their carriages, mountings &c., all with detailed specifications & drawings. Includes ordnance of all kinds (naval & land service) but especially important at this period for the development of the machine gun, from ten years before Gatling's first patent (No. 790/1865) to twenty-one years after Maxim's first (No. 3483/1883) for the gun that was to bear his name. Contemp. official ledger-style three-qtr. calf, green cloth covd. boards, red & black morocco lettering labels, gilt, VG throughout, handsome & scarce.
£200
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Types of the British Army: Scots Guards.
Portfolio of 8 col. plates produced from photos. Stevenson, Clark & Co., Edinburgh. nd (c.1930).
#41002
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Col. plates depicting the regiment's dress during the inter-war period.
£25
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The Commonwealth Army: Shall it be Based on Conscription or Voluntary Service? A Series of Articles by the Military Representative of the Sydney Daily Telegraph upon the Proposed Creation of A National Army for Australia by the Introduction of Compulsory Military Training.
Reprinted from the Sydney Dailey Telegraph, Jan. 4-13, 1908. 29pp. orig. wraps. Sydney, Cunninghame & Co., Printers.
1908.
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Outline of several proposed systems for an Australian Army. Chipped orig. wraps., previously has been bound with other pamphlets, VG thus & uncommon, ex-RUSI lib. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Is it Beneath the Dignity of a Nation to Employ Foreign Soldiers?
By an Officer Lately on the Staff. 46pp. No imprint/date.
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The author addresses the question: "Would it the expedient to keep a Foreign Legion permanently in the British Service?" Reference to the 'late war with Russia' & the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, plus extract from Hansard dated 1850, would seem to date this to c.1860. Later brown binder's cloth, bookplate of Basil Liddell Hart.
£10
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Henry Richard Compton, Lieutenant, Coldstream Guards, A Few Notes Relating to His Short Life & His Death, Collected by a Friend to Whom he was Devoted.
1st Ed., 52pp., portrait frontis. Printed for Private Circulation by Hatchards.
1925.
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Ed. Eton & Sandhurst, gazetted to the Coldstream in Aug. 1918 & died of illness in 1923.
£20
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The Aero Manual: A Manual of Mechanically-Propelled Human Flight, Covering the History of the Work of Early Investigators, & of the Pioneer Work of the Last Century. Recent Successes, & the Reasons Therefor, Are Dealt With, Together With Many Constructive DEtails Concerning Airships, Aeroplanes, Gliders, Etc.
Compiled by the Staff of 'The Motor.' 2nd Ed., [xviii]+208pp. (+ adverts), num. photos. & sketches. Temple Press.
1910.
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Early aviation, with many interesting illus. Somewhat soiled & worn, sound. See illustration on our website.
£15
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Royal Navy Navigation School: Navigating Officer's Dinner (1926-1939, 1947-1950, 1954, 1956-1964, 1981, 1984 & 1991).
Two blue leatherbound Visitor's Books recording those present at these annual dinners: for the earlier years (up to mid-1950s) each event has a hand drawn & usually appealing & decorative themed 'title' leaf. Every dinner had a distinguished guest of honour & many interesting signatures of guests-of-honour & others present at the dinners include Winston Churchill, Mountbatten of Burma, Auchinleck, Adml. Sir Roge Keyes, &c.
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Guest of Honour at the first dinner (1926) was Adml. Sir Henry F. Oliver (he also came in 1927 when the Guest of Hon. was Adml. Alban Tate). Most prominent guest, all of whom signed the book, include: Adml. of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe (1929); Adml. Sir Roger Keyes (1930); Winston Churchill (1936); Adml. Sir Edwd. R.G.R. Evans (of 'the Broke' & Scott's second-in-command on the south polar expedition of 1910-13) (1938); Adml. of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery (1939); FM Sir Claude Auchinleck (1956) & Adml. of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1957). Among the many hundreds who attended over the years are dozens of admirals; we note at least one VC (Carpenter of Zeebrugge) & other well-known names; doubtless a naval expert could easily identify many other interesting characters. An excellent collection of signatures. See illustrations on our website.
£1250
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Deanes' Manual of the History & Science of Fire-Arms.
1st Ed., viii+[276]pp., 3 fldg. plates. Longman et al.
1858.
#36296
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Very scarce original copy of standard treatise, the three fldg. plates insect ravaged but the images unaffected, ditto to the last few leaves of text. Orig. red cloth, blindstamped & gilt, VG but for aforementioned & sl. tear at head of sp.
£36
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British Troops in Austria. Exercise Highball. D.S. Issue. Austria, 26th-30th July 1948.
160pp. approx., foolscap, sketches & diagrams. C.-in-C. Austria.
1948.
#35896
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RESTRICTED. The Directing Staff edition with additional matter not in the general issue (this differentiated by being printed on pink paper) of the comprehensive study notes & directives for a major exercise relating to recent & possible future events in Palestine & the Suez Canal. A particular object of this exercise was to enable officers to "study the latest machinery & technique" of Air Support, notably Air movement of troops; Air supply & Offensive air support. Unusual survival, near fine.
£50
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Naval General Service Medal Roll: Syria.
269pp., bound carbon typescript.
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Bound in half blue morocco (rubbed, but sound), being an alphabetical roll of around 7000 officers & men entitled to the clasp for the Capture of Acre & operations connected with it on the coast of Syria in 1840. Includes their rating & ship, other clasps earned & occasional other notes, plus list of ships present. An anonymous, major research project superseded by the published & online NGS roll but handy quick reference for anyone interested in this particular campaign.
£20
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