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The first Italian War of Independence depicted by the Austrians

ADAM, [Eugen and Franz]. Erinnerungen an die Feldzüge der K. K. Oester. Armee in Italien in den Jahren 1848-49.
Munich, Cotta, [1851]. Royal oblong folio (62.5 x 45.5 cm). With tinted lithographed title, dedication leaf to Radetzky, preface and 24 lithographed plates. With 24 ll. of explanatory text printed on blue paper. Plates loose in a contemporary red cloth slipcase with a silk lining. [24] ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Austria Central Europe Horses & Horsemanship Italy Military History (19th Century)

Fascinating album amicorum of a German captain in military service of the Batavian and French Imperial Army

[ALBUM AMICORUM - HEINRICH, Carl Gottlieb]. [Album amicorum of Carl Gottlieb Heinrich with entries written in Bischofswerda and surroundings, The Netherlands, France, Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, Bengal, and Reading, England].
[Bischofswerda and surroundings, etc., 1802-1818]. 8vo oblong (12.8 x 18.2 cm). Richly illustrated with 13 watercolour drawings, some full-page, of tombs, a temple of friendship, vases, hunting scene, nice portraits, basket with fruit, etc., 2 views: washed drawings of Cape Town (folding) and Jamestown, St Helena, 2 drawings of children and an altar, 6 (stippled) engraved small plates pasted down of Amor, the military camp of Wallenstein, children and exotic people, and 3 embroideries. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf with a lighter brown leather oval inset as a centrepiece in both boards, gold-tooled spine with red and green morocco labels lettered in gold "Denkmal der Freundschaft" and an initial "H" (= Heinrich) in a gold-tooled laurel wreath, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 120 ff., irregularly paginated: some ff. apparently cut out, some added. Full description

€ 4,500

Alba Amicorum Military History (19th Century)

Invasions of Gaza and Jaffa, from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali

ALDERSON, Ralph Carr. Notes on Acre and some of the coast defences of Syria.
London, John Weale, 1843. Large 4to (23.5 x 28 cm). With a general engraved frontispiece, 60 plates (52 numbered plates plus plate XLIV* and 7 unnumbered plates; comprising of 1 folding double page plate, 48 double page plates, and 11 full-page plates). Plates VI-IX belong to the "Notes on Acre" article. Part of: Papers on subjects connected with the duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Contemporary half black cloth. XI, [1], 220 pp. [Notes on Acre on pp. 19-62]. Full description

€ 2,800

Military History (19th Century) Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia

Downplaying "The Great Skedaddle", this copy inscribed by the author to one of the panicking senators

BARNARD, John Gross. The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run.
New York, D. Van Nostrand; London, Trübner & co. (back of title-page: C.A. Alvord), 1862. 8vo. With 5 folding maps. Publishers red cloth, with title in gold on front board. 124, [12] pp. Full description

€ 850

Military History (19th Century) North America

The Battle of Austerlitz in Napoleon's own words, printed in a famous 17th-century Arabic type

[BONAPARTE, Napoleon (attributed)]. Kitāb majmuʻ ḥawādith ʼal-ḥarb ʼal-wāqiʻ bayna ʼal-Faransawīyah wa-ʼal-Namsāwīyah fī ʼawākhir sanat 1805 ʼal-Masīḥīyah ʼal-muwāfiq lahā sanat (translation: A book of summaries of the war between the French and the Austrians at the end of 1805).
[Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1806]. Small 4to. With a woodcut decorative border on the title page, and a woodcut Islamic headpiece at the start of the work.
Mid-19th-century gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a brown morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine and the initials "P. T." lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. 306 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy France Military History (19th Century)

A Dutch view on the military campaigns of Napoleon

BOYMANS, Johannes Andreas. Le garde d'honneur, ou episode du règne de Napoléon Buonaparte.
Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1822. 8vo. With 2 large folding maps after designs by G.F. Baron de Derfelden de Hinderstein, partly coloured by hand, a white on black phantasmagoric folding lithographed plate, and 4 folding lithographed views by Kierdorff after E. van Boeckhoven. Later gold-and blind tooled half green calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, green decorative paper sides, green decorative paper end papers. XXXIV, 69, XLI, XVIII, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,600

France Geography Law & Politics Military History (19th Century) Netherlands Travel & Voyages Europe

Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions in the East

Jean CHANLAIRE, Pierre Gregoire and Edme MENTELLE. Carte du théâtre de la Guerre en Orient.
Paris, Chanlaire & Mentelle, 1798-1799. Original outline colour. Dissected and laid on linen in two sections, 880 x 940 mm & 660 x 940 mm. Full description

€ 28,000

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Charts & Maps East Africa Egypt Germany Iran / Persia Malta Military History (18th Century) North Africa Turkey & Ottoman Empire UAE - United Arab Emirates

Authentic pictorial record of the first revolts of the Chinese Revolution of 1911

[CHINA - PHOTOGRAPHY - CHINESE REVOLUTION]. War scenes of the Chinese Revolution book 1.
Shanghai, Commercial Press, Limited, [1912?]. Oblong 8vo (15 x 22.5 cm). 160 black-and-white photographs, all protected by tissue paper guards. Original publisher's orange-brown pictorial cloth, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], 40; 40; 40; 40, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

China Greek & Non-Western Types Military History (20th Century) Photography

On the sales of arms and arms deals in the Middle East

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS. New perspectives on the Persian Gulf. Hearings before the subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia of the committee on foreign affairs, house of representatives, ninety-third congress, first session. June 6, July 17, 23, 24, and November 28, 1973.
Washington, U.S. Government printing office, 1973. 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm). With a small map of the Persian Gulf. Original printed paper wrappers. VIII, [1], 227 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Armory, Military Science & Technology Economic History & Trade Iran / Persia Kuwait Military History (20th Century) North America Saudi Arabia USA - United States of America

On "the escalating level of arms sales to Gulf states"

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The Persian Gulf, 1975: the continuing debate on arms sales. Hearings before the special subcommittee on investigations of the committee on international relations, house of representatives, ninety-fourth congress, first Session. June 10, 18, 24 and July 29, 1975.
Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. 8vo. Original printed paper wrappers. VI, 261 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Armory, Military Science & Technology Economic History & Trade Iran / Persia Military History (20th Century) North America

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