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Pax Britannica: the Climax of an Empire; Heaven's Command: an Imperial Progress; Farewell the Trumpets.
MORRIS, James.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00The Pax Britannica trilogy. James (later Jan) Morris was a British historian, author and travel writer. Educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, a...
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I Claudius [together with] Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina.
GRAVES, Robert.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00A really attractive set of the I Claudius books memorably filmed by the BBC and in this condition extremely hard to find.First editions, first imp...
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
CHURCHILL, Winston.
Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the development of t...
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The Second World War.
CHURCHILL, Winston.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00This magnum opus took the ageing Churchill some years to complete although he started making copious notes as early as 1940. Interestingly enough ...
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Remarks on the Scope and Uses of Military Literature and History.
[MILITARY HISTORY].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Calcutta imprint - very rare. One of three known copies of a Calcutta-printed treatise on the history and 'Science of War'. The words, taken from a...
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Bond-Certificate Campaign.
[American Commission on Irish Independence].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00'God Irrevocably Fixed the Boundaries of IRELAND'. A rare political pamphlet promoting the first American bond-drive to finance the newly declared ...
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A Military Course for the Government and Conduct of a Battalion,
SIMES, Thomas.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00With royal provenance. 'From the rebellious conduct of the Americans it appears to me there is a great necessity of publishing something of this ki...
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Affidavit for a patent to secure buildings against fire, 5th January 1809.
CONGREVE, Sir William.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00The first sprinkler system. A signed and dated affidavit to patent a 'mode of construction or arrangement for any building, so as to afford securit...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
GIBBON, Edward.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00First great history of Rome's fall. A beautiful six-volume set of this classic work. Gibbon's (1737-1794) History of the Decline and Fall of the Ro...
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Affidavit to patent a gun carriage for land or sea service, 15th March 1808.
CONGREVE, Sir William.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Invention of a new gun carriage. A signed and dated affidavit to patent the invention of a new gun carriage by Sir William Congreve (1772-1828), co...
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The King's Ships.
LECKY, Halton Stirling.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00The first edition of Lecky's The King's Ships, a fine visual record of the Royal Navy from its earliest foundation to its height at the pinnacle o...
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Her Majesty's Navy
LOW, Lieut. Charles Rathbone.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00The first edition of Charles Rathbone Low's (1837-1918) illustrated history of the Royal Navy, from its origins under the auspices of the Tudor co...
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An Impartial Account of many Barbarous Cruelties exercised in the Inquisition in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
[INQUISITION].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00First edition. An extremely scarce collection of works on the Inquisition in Spain, Portugal and Italy compiled anonymously from several tracts pop...
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Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians.
JESSE, J. Heneage.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00Eton College interest. A beautifully bound copy of Heneage Jesse's (d.1874) two-volume collection of biographies on noted Eton alumni including Wil...
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Moia Zhizn: Opyt Avtolitografii. [My Life. An attempt at an autobiography].
TROTSKY, Leon.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00The first edition . The rare first edition of Trotsky's My Life: An Attempt at an autobiography, written in the first year of his exile in Turkey. ...
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