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8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole M96.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers the unit's service in Sumatra, Java and Timor, with resulting captivity. Includes ROH.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, photographs in the text and maps; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip letter in gilt, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., with a frontispiece and maps in the text; grey boards, ivory cloth back lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vernacular account of the events and aftermath of two days following the atomic bomb attack. THE CLOTH EDITION IS ALREADY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine plates, illustrations, makers' marks and tables in the text, and endpaper maps; sky blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE
8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16 and 14 maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned (as usual) at backstrip. The definitive study by an acknowledged authority, this detailed account covers the vital role of 7th Armoured Brigade in the retreat to India and the subsequent struggle against convention until Admin Box and Japan's first clear defeat at British hands. Also includes much on the bunker-busting methods of the Arakan, the elan of the old Indian cavalry regiments and the savage fighting along the Irrawaddy Bend. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION; the dustwrapper is almost invariably sunned. Enser, p.43; Graham & Cole, K56.
171 p., 705 lots illustrés en coul. Inv. 24859
269 p., 858 lots la plupart illustrés en coul. Coin de la couverture légèrement pliée. Inv. 24862
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Walker commanded 4/8th Gurkhas in 7th Indian Division throughout the Burma campaign. Graham & Cole, L19; not recorded by Enser
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and chipped at upper edge of front panel and head of backstrip. WITH A LONG (4pp) T.L.s FROM GENERAL WALKER LOOSELY INSERTED, AND SEVERAL ITEMS OF PRINTED EPHEMERA RELATING IN PART TO HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIVIL ASSISTANCE ORGANISATION. Walker commanded 4/8th Gurkhas in 7th Indian Division throughout the Burma campaign. Graham & Cole, L19; not recorded by Enser
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates; brown cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Author's biography set in Tientsin, China, during the 1920s and 1930s.
Book is in excellent condition with blue HB covers, white print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, edge wear at corners and spine. A great many full color, full page photos throughout of unusual, even outlandish historical architecture, some modern, from around the world. 320 pages, contents include wood architecture in The far east, Northern Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, America, South East Asia, Australia, etc. Remainder mark bottom page ends.
8vo., on laid paper, text in French, with engraved portrait of the author, an engraved plate, a large folding engraved map and engraved head- and tail-pieces in the text; contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked in twentieth century calf to style, sprinkled edges, a remarkably clean, crisp copy. Complete with half-title, advertisement and comprehensive index. The engraved portrait of Raynal is by Charles-Nicolas Cochin. The plate (by Eisen) is bound at the beginning rather than facing p.89. The map is transcribed by Bonne. An uncommon edition of Raynal's classic account. This first volume [of seven] contains Books I-III. Book I describes the activities (discoveries, wars and conquests) of the Portuguese in the Middle East, India, East Indies and Far East, including Indostan, Malabar, the Persian Gulf, the Moluccas and China. Book II follows the Dutch in the same regions, including Formosa, Timor, Japan, the Celebes, Borneo, Sumatra, Siam, Ceylon, Coromandel, Malabar, Cape of Good Hope and Java. Book III is devoted to the English in their relations with the Dutch and Portuguese in the Middle East, Malabar, Coromandel, Bengal, St. Helena and Comoros Islands. This volume is complete in itself. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. See Sabin 68080; this edition not recorded by Kress.
Book is in excellent condition, back cover appears to have gold paint at upper corner. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
176 pages, illustrated, gazetteer. eng
71 pages, illustrated, index. eng
8vo., Second Edition, text in French, with 159 photographs on 64 plates, 8 plans in the text and 1 (of 2) folding map, top lightly dust-soiled; original wrappers printed in red and black, uncut, a near fine copy. WANTING MAP I: CARTE HISTORIQUE DE L'INDOCHINE. Etudes d'Art et d'Ethnologie Asiatiques I. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, photographs in the text and numerous folding maps coloured in outline; laminated pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on endpapers [only]. The official, highly detailed campaign report, profusely mapped and illustrated. Not recorded by Enser.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and photographs and maps in the text; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The success of American codebreakers in reading the messages of the Japanese armed forces and diplomatic service.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver and red, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper. The success of American codebreakers in reading the messages of the Japanese armed forces and diplomatic service.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, Slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased, with minor traces of storage. 158pp. An account of visits to Japan between the country's opening-up in 1853 and the ending of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1922, mostly in the words of the visitors themselves. Illustrated with period photographs and colour illustrations, this gives a rare account of Japan over this period.
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, plates and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Taken prisoner at Singapore, the author records his time in Changi and on the Burma-Thai railway.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole N13.
8vo., Second Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy. Revised and enlarged version of the first UK edition of 1944. SCARCE. Graham & Cole, G29 (recording Harrap's later 1946 edition).
