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4to., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. This catalogue should not be confused with its similarly titled but much smaller counterpart [Mulholland & Jordan H81] issued in purple wrappers to accompany the same exhibition held at Marlborough House. THE PRESENT WORK IS THE ONLY CATALOGUE TO LIST IN FULL THE CITATIONS OF ALL 640 VICTORIA CROSSES ON DISPLAY AND IS CONSIDERABLY SCARCER THAN THE ABRIDGED 39PP VERSION. The catalogue is arranged chronologically from inception to 1951. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Mulholland & Jordan, H80.
PARIS, Ed. du tambourin, 1920 - In 12° - Reliure 1/2 basane havane, signée Lilié - Dos lisse orné de filets dorés, titre doré, Mention en queue " bibliothèque des S.Officiers du 129 Régiment d'Infanterie - 228 pages - Envoi rapide et soigné
Pages 989-1014 plus many additional pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: Honours for the R.F.C.; The Roll of Honour; Wing Bracing and Head Resistance; The Burges Speed Scout Biplane (with scale drawings and three photos); The Royal Aero Club - Official News; Turin to London Non-Stop - with map and photo of Captain Laureati and Michael Angelo Tonzo; ; Airisms from the Four Winds; "X" Aircraft Raids; The British Air Services - appointments and promotions; Aircraft Work at the Front - Official Information; Magneto Ignition - simple explanation of the fundamentals with illustrations; The Society of British Aircraft Constructors - official notices; Side-Winds; Imports and Exports 1916-1917; Full-page illustration with text honouring Second Lieutenant J.C. Currie "for conspicuous gallantry" while acting as observer to another officer; Fantastic full-page Avro ad; Nice full-page ad with photo for Palmer Cord Tyres and Wheels; The Huns Air Service; Flight-Lieut. Curt Wolff (who replaced Baron von Richthofen as leader of Squadron 12) killed in action; Air photo of massive damage to the village of Bermericourt; Photo of the Kaiser decorating officers on the western front; Photo of Italian F.B.A. flying boat; Two photos of the first of the U.S. Navy's 'blimps'; Great full-page illustrated ad for "Triplex"safety glass for use in goggles and windshields; Personals; Great illustrated ad for the "Newhaven Coat"; and more. Bit of faint underlining to magneto article otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs and maps throughout; original laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1998. Detailed accounts, including gazette entries, of the thirty-eight recipients.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and numerous monochrome plates, cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy. Smyth reviews the history of the VC in five main phases: 1854-1924; 1914-1919; 1920-1939; 1939-1945; post-1945. Appendices include statistical data of VC awards, transcripts of extracts of London Gazette VC warrants and a list of VC recipients (and their relatives) who attended the 1962 Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. Mulholland & Jordan S60.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 37 monochrome plates on 20, title clipped at upper out corner; cloth, gilt back, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), boards lightly age-marked, a good working copy. Includes a list of Empire Gallantry Medallists.
In-8°, pp. 10. Bross. edit. Scritte e segni in cop. FRANCO (Benevento 1515 - Roma,1570), poi segretario dell'Aretino, fu poeta sempre originale, pieno di sé e piuttosto incline all'invettiva che alla lode; giunto giovanissimo a Venezia nel 1536, per farsi ben accogliere, pubblicò il "Tempio di Amore", copiando di sana pianta (forse da una copia manoscritta recata con sé?) lo sconosciuto "Tempio di Cupido" del napoletano Iacopo Campanile detto CAPANIO (appena edito a Alife, 1536), sostituendo i nomi delle adulate dame napoletane con quelli delle veneziane. Ben curioso documento di cortigianeria. Censito alla sola Biblioteca Benedetto Croce - Napoli
<p>22 cm, rilegatura in mezza tela, titolo in oro su tassello al dorso, conserva le copertine illustrate, originali ma con qualche traccia d'uso; p. 382. Moltissime brevi descrizioni di vite di donne galanti, in ordine alfabetico</p>
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; original photographic wrappers, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Detailed and well-illustrated accounts of the WWI awards made to Private William Buckingham, The Leicestershire Regiment, and Captain Robert Gee, 2 Bn The Royal Fusiliers. Uncommon.
<p>17 cm, ril. moderna, muta, in cartone ricoperto da carta pastello, tagli dorati, (4), 298, (2). Antiporta inciso in rame con scena bucolica, frontespizio calcografico, con grande ghirlanda floreale, firmato dall'incisore Johann Jakob Falkeisen. All'interno, 4 belle tavole incise fuori testo protette da carta velina, una delle incisioni è firmata da Giuseppe Carpano Ripamonti. Delizioso esemplare ottimamente conservato. Raccolta di aneddoti storico-romantici sulla cavalleria ed i modi galanti.</p>
Paris, Famot 1980. In-12 pleine reliure éditeur de 283 pages illustrées. Très bon état
Mm 215x215 Due volumi rilegati in uniforme similpelle nera con scritta in oro al piatto e al dorso, custodia editoriale con piatti figurati a colori, 925 pagine complessive. Numerose le illustrazioni in nero nel testo. Perfetto lo stato. Si tratta della seconda edizione ampliata dopo quella del 1948 per la quale i due autori furono processati e poi assolti. Opera non pruriginosa e solcata da venature ironiche. In appendice Lexicon sessuologico del dott. Fortunato Pautrier. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Features: Cover portrait of Brevet-Colonel John Vaughan Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., who won the Victoria Cross by leading an attack when his personal example and gallantry turned the fortune of the day. Includes Chapter CCXXVI - "For Valour - Heroes of the Victoria Cross in the Third Year of the War" Includes photos of many dozens of V.C. recipients, plus other photos. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: The Hun's Last Hope - Gravity of the Coming German Offensive on the West; Photos of Railways and Waterways where war has passed by; Doughty Gurkhas and Punjabis in the Desert; Won from the Crescent by the New Crusaders - Allenby captures Jerusalem; Exit the Enemy from 'German' East Africa; With Marshall's Men in Mesopotamia; Booty of the 'Bonnets' on the way to Bourlon; The Rumbling of the Storm - how Russia entered the war in a spirit of Brooding Unrest; Gallantry at Guislain and Mercy at Masnieres; Inspiriting Incidents in the Cambrai conflict; The Kaiser's spies in England - how the system worked and failed in this country, by Tighe Hopkins; Where the 'Tanks' went forward towards Cambrai; Moving heavy guns to meet the Menace on the West; Various victims of vagrant and warring airmen; German ships used by United States Soldiers; Royal interest in the work of British inventors; St. George & Jerusalem - article (and full-page map) - End of Four Centuries of Turkish misrule in the Holy City. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
<p>18 cm, bella rilegatura in piena tela, titolo e fregi in oro al dorso, tagli colorati; p. 251, (4), numerose foto in b/n a piena o a mezza pagina. Stemma nobiliare italiano applicato al risguardo</p>
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous portraits; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1997. Includes full citation for each of the 106 VCs won during WWII. Mulholland & Jordan L3 (recording the first edition).
L'Histoire galante du XVIIIe si?cle 1 22,5x14 cm., in brossura con immagine applicata alla copertina, pagg. 224 (4), 4 incisioni con immagini d'epoca fuori testo, in francese, buone condizioni. Le Prince Apprius - Orgies du Palais-Royal - Chronique scandaleuse - Don Juan, mar?chal de France - La Grivoise du Temps ou la Charolaise
1 22,5x14 cm., in brossura con incisione applicata in copertina, pagg. 263 (4), 4 tavole con immagini d'epoca in nero fuori testo, in francese, buone condizioni. Le M?nage de Louis XVI - Les Pamphlets contre Marie-Antoniette - Chronique indiscrete de la Cour - De la galanterie au Sadisme - Filles d'Op?ra et d'ailleurs - Grisettes et Raccroheuses - Police des moeurs au XVIIIe si?cle - Les Maisons Closes
1 22,5x14 cm., in brossura con immagine applicata in copertina, pagg. 262 (1), 4 illustrazioni con immagini d'epoca in nero fuori testo, in francese, buone condizioni. Madame de Mailly - Les soeurs de Nesle - La Duchesse de Chateauroux - Madame de Pompadour - Louison Morphy dite Sirette - Mademoiselle de Romans, Ma Grande - Mademoiselle Tiercelin . Manon Lan?on, file de joie - Madame du Barry, sultane
In-8, 256 pp., 8 planches hors texte, broche, couverture illustree. Etat d'usage. [CL-8]
8vo., First Edition, with plates, small corner clipped from title, some occasional underlining; cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded (but all gilt wholly legible) else a good, clean copy. Vividly-written account of 22 VC holders. Enser, p.463; Mulholland & Jordan H26.
In 12° (14,7x9 cm); (4), 155, (5) pp. Bella legatura artigianale coeva in mezza pelle rossa con dorso a 5 nervi e etitolo e autore impresii in oro ai tasselli. Esemplare in barbe ed in ottime condizioni di conservazione. Opera tirata in soli 750 esemplari, questo è l'esemplare numero 67. Prima edizione nella tiratura delle "Le Coffret du Bibliophile" di questo scritto galante di Guillaume Apollinaire, pseudonimo di Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apollinaris de Waz-Kostrowicky (Roma, 25 agosto 1880 – Parigi, 9 novembre 1918) celebre poeta, scrittore, critico d'arte e drammaturgo francese che fu anche sostenitore del movimento futurismo italiano. Opera in bella legatura ed in ottime condizioni di conservazione.
Volume in ottavo, brossura editoriale figurata, titolo al piatto ed al dorso, occhiello, frontespizio, IV, 320 pp.. Una carrellata attraverso testi ed illustrazioni galanti del secolo dei Lumi, con una presentazione e le note del Grand-Carteret, che preferisce giustamente far parlare i racconti e le vignette. Gran contenitore d'erotismo e letteratura "libera" il Settecento, con una serie d'illustratori di grandissima capacità nel cogliere la galanteria ed il suo cugino erotismo. L'opera è condotta con garbo e misura, presenta testi classici insieme con altri poco noti ed ha un'iconografia ampia e succosa. In barbe, in buono stato (mende alla legatura), stuzzicante e poco comune
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black; original brown cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, brown top, backstrip faded (but all lettering just legible) else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH 'PRESENTATION COPY' BLIND STAMP ON TITLE. Dedicated to Lord Ribblesdale, this work includes essays on La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere and Vauvenargues, and Gosse's well-known encomium on France in the Great War.
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs and maps throughout; original laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1998. Detailed accounts, including gazette entries, of the fifty recipients in the two actions concerned.
