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Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Including maritime subjects, military history post -1945 &c.   115 Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Militia & Volunteers. [Bound together with:] Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on the Militia & Volunteers (Volume I.); Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on the Militia & Volunteers (Volume II.); Appendices to The Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on the Militia & Volunteers. Printed by Command of His Majesty. 4 Vols., v+78pp., xii+459pp., viii+578 & xiii+275pp., foolscap. HMSO. 1904  #68942
[HLMainPic] This post-Boer War Royal Commission was established to enquire into the organization, numbers & terms of service of the Militia & Volunteer Forces, & so to report on their military efficiency. The principal requirement was to establish whether the Militia & Volunteers were the most suitable method for defending the UK, as an adjunct to the Regular Army. During the course of deliberations over 82 sittings & the examination of 134 witnesses (which included FM Lord Roberts, Sir John Ardagh, Sir John French, many commanding officers of volunteer units, members of the mercantile community, Maj.-Gen. Sir Alfred Turner (Inspector-General of Auxiliary Forces) the overriding conclusion was that the volunteer force was not fit for purpose, although disclipine in units, & the services performed by various individuals & contingents during recent operations in South Africa was creditable. $ Vols. in very clean orig. blue printed wraps, bound together in contemp. ledger binding. See illustrations on our website.   £165
Compilation of General Orders, Circulars & Bulletins of the War Department Issued between February 15, 1881, & December 31, 1915. 1st Ed., 669pp. Washington: Govt. Printing Office. 1916  #64178
[HLMainPic] Various orders & directions for the United States Army re all manner of arrangements: appointments & promotions, foreign service, enlistment &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG with bookplate & spine stamp of NZ General Assembly Lib. See illustration on our website.   £45
Army & Militia. Annual Report of The Inspector-General of Recruiting for the Year 1902. Orig. printed wraps., 43pp., foolscap. HMSO. 1903  #64895
[HLMainPic] Including sections on recruiting for the Regular Army, Militia & Imperial Yeomanry, together with War Recruiting & Concluding Remarks, General Observations & notes on the Civil Employment of Discharged Soldiers & Reservists. This edition includes such interesting matter as Statement Showing the Period of Engagement, Ages on Enlistment & Re-Enlistment, Pay, Bounties, Gratuities, &c., for the various Corps raised during the South African War. Various other interesting tables &c. Orig. printed wraps., VG, 1750 copies printed & scarce survival. See illustration on our website.   £45
Imperial Yeomanry (In Great Britain) Training Return, 1902 [Together with:] Imperial Yeomanry (In Great Britain & Ireland) Training Return, 1904 [And:] Imperial Yeomanry (In Great Britain & Ireland) Training Return, 1906. Three issues, orig. printed wraps., each 3pp., foolscap. HMSO. Contemp.  #64901
[HLMainPic] Each contains a tabulated statement of the strength of each unit, plus other details. Orig. printed wraps., little chipped & worn, VG. 700 copies printed of the first two, & 1000 of the third. See illustration on our website.   £45
Illustrated Programme of The Royal Jubilee Procession, June 22nd [1897]. Authorised by H.R.H. The Price of Wales, K.G., Published in Aid of the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund for London. Orig. dec. wraps., 60pp., drawings throughout. Printed for The Prince of Wales Hospital Fund by George Robert Parker & Augustus Fildes Thomas.  #65123
[HLMainPic] Full listing of those dignitaries, regiments, Foreign Missions &c. participating in the parade through London to mark Queen Victoria's Jubilee inc. the names of The Deputation of Officers of The Imperial Service Troops (Indian officers), the Escort from The Regular Indian Army (around 50 Indian officers of the Indian cavalry) & more, followed by fine drawings of the various contingents & carriages. VG. See illustrations on our website.   £60
Aide-Memoire to The Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers of The Different Services, & Edited by a Committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers. 1853. 2nd Ed., corrected, 3 Vols., vii+544pp., approx. 150 plates/diagrams; iv+589pp., approx. 100 plates/diagrams; iv+799pp., approx. 60 plates/diagrams. Lockwood & Co. 1861/1862  #65413
[HLMainPic] An immense, heavily illustrated, & exceptionally detailed compendium of the military (& other) sciences. This three-part work, some 1800pp. in all, with around 300 plates & many text engravings, covers just about everything that a student of the military profession should be aware of. Three matching volumes bound in later (somewhat amateur, but sound) half brown morocco over marbled paper covd. boards with red leather letting labels to sps. See illustration on on our website.   £125
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. Vol. XXVII. 1883. Vol. XXVII consisting of four quarterly editions published during 1883. 838pp., in all, + plates, maps & sketches (many fldg.). RUSI. Contemp.  #65424
[HLMainPic] The premier forum of its time for articles on campaigns & theory, Naval & Military Notes, announcements of new publications, book reviews, notes on military manoeuvres &c. The volume offered here includes articles on a wide range of issues & technical developments in the British & other armies inc. articles such as Cyprus as a Strategical Position; The Effect of the Bombardment of the Forts of Alexandria, July 11, 1882; The Russo-Turkish Frontier in Asia Minor; Machine Guns; Military Ballooning &c. Contemp. half morocco, somewhat rubbed & worn, generally sound. See illustration on our website.   £35
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. Vol. XXIX. 1885. Vol. XXVII consisting of four quarterly editions published during 1885. 1218pp., in all, + plates, maps & sketches (many fldg.). RUSI. Contemp.  #65425
[HLMainPic] The premier forum of its time for articles on campaigns & theory, Naval & Military Notes, announcements of new publications, book reviews, notes on military manoeuvres &c. The volume offered here includes articles on a wide range of issues & technical developments in the British & other armies inc. articles such as The Russo-Afghan Frontier; The French Railway Corps; The Organization of Camel Corps in Warfare; Soudan Warfare, &c. Contemp. half morocco, somewhat rubbed & worn, generally sound. See illustration on our website.   £35
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. Vol. XXX. 1886. Vol. XXX consisting of four quarterly editions published during 1886. 1250pp., in all, + Appendix, + plates, maps & sketches (many fldg.). RUSI. Contemp.  #65448
[HLMainPic] The premier forum of its time for articles on campaigns & theory, Naval & Military Notes, announcements of new publications, book reviews, notes on military manoeuvres &c. The volume offered here (which is bound in two parts) includes articles on a wide range of issues & technical developments in the British & other armies inc. articles such as The Field Telegraph, its Use in War & its Employment in the late Expeditions in the Soudan & South Africa; Mounted Infantry (by Maj. E.T.H. Hutton, KRRC, late commanding Mounted Infantry in Egypt), &c. Bound in two vols., contemp. half morocco, somewhat rubbed & worn, generally sound. See illustration on our website.   £40
"Home Rule Notes." A Year's Record of the Home Rule Movement. Volume I. December, 1911, to November, 1912. 1st Ed. in volume form containing 12 monthly issues of Home Rule Notes, approx. 700pp. in all (bound without the orig. wraps. & advertising matter). Westminster: The Home Rule Council 1912  #65854
[HLMainPic] Much detail on the issue of Irish Home Rule, the state of the Irish nation (with much on religion), comments of various figures, accounts of disturbances in Ulster, &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt to front & sp., little stained & worn, generally VG with bookplate of the Peter Symonds' Memorial Library. See illustration on our website.   £85

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