Militaria
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# 13571
Draper, William, Sir; Cornish, Samuel, Sir
A plain narrative of the reduction of Manila and the Philippine Islands
[London? : s.n., 1763 or 1764]. Duodecimo, later cloth binding (lightly marked) rebacked in half calf, title lettered in gilt on spine; browning to endpapers; title page with former owner’s Chinese red seal stamp; pp 30; woodcut initial and tail-piece; small loss at fore-edges of title and last leaf; else a good copy. Based on internal evidence, this work …
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# 13561
DRAPER, William, Sir, 1721-1787
Colonel Draper’s answer to the Spanish arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing payment of the Ransom Bills, for preserving Manila
from pillage and destruction : in a Letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department. London : printed for J. Dodsley, 1764. Octavo, recent half calf over cloth boards with gilt rule; spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; pp 43 (but lacking half …
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# 21284
HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )
Action Man Story
Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is a stark and relevant commentary …
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# 14223
Izquierdo y Gutiérrez, Rafael
Gobierno P[olitico] M[ilitar] de las Islas Visayas.
[Manila?] : [s.n.], 1873. Broadside, folio (285 x 190 mm); text in two columns, in Spanish and Cebuano, the indigenous language of Cebu; dated in manuscript at the foot ‘Marzo, 1873, Cebú’ and initialled ‘D.P.M.’; housed in portfolio by Aquarius of London, silk boards with gilt lettered morocco label to front. An exhortation by the Governor …
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# 21191
FRY, Gavin
Nolan’s Gallipoli.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1983. Folio, green cloth over boards in dust jacket, 118 pages illustrated in colour, tiny amount of foxing to extremities, a very good copy.
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# 20192
NYE, Gideon (1812-1888)
The opium question and the Northern campaigns :
including notices of some strictures by reviewers of the former ; and indications of the salient points of the latter, down to the Treaty of Nanking … … Canton : [s.n.], 1875. Large octavo, original printed wrappers (brittle and chipped, paper loss along spine, upper wrapper with repair), pp [20], 26, [17]-68, [14]; internally clean and …
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# 20668
BEAN, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), et al.
The official history of Australia in the war of 1914-18. (Complete set)
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1937-1942. Various editions (2nd-9th). Twelve volumes, thick octavo (220 x 140 mm), publisher’s uniform maroon cloth boards with gilt lettered spines (bindings rubbed and most with some flecking, volume IX with bowed upper board); approximately 8,000 pages, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates, maps; most volumes with a small amount …
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# 20513
DINNING, Hector
Nile to Aleppo. With the Light-Horse in the Middle-East (signed copy?)
Illustrated by James McBey. London : George Allen & Unwin, 1920. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (corners a little bumped), tipped-in colour frontispiece, pp. 287, colour and black and white plates, a very good copy. Pencil signature ‘Dinning’ to endpaper, possibly the author’s signature (unverified). An account of the Australian Light Horse in the First World War. …
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# 20648
Magic welcome to China
Nanking : Reproduced by Engineer Section, Army Advisory Group, Nanking, China, circa 1946. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (spine a little chipped, previous owner’s name to upper wrapper), pp. 88, illustrated with sketches by Gyula Singer, a little toned but a good copy. A locally printed guide book for American troops stationed in Nanking. “At the end of …
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# 20661
Anon.
Handwritten invitation to a party in Kure, Japan, during Australian military occupation, 1948.
The YWCA of Kure invite you to a Japanese afternoon on Sat 20 Nov 3.00 to 4.30 pm. This Function is part of our YWCA world fellowship week. Japanese paper with woodblock printed decoration, 235 x 115mm, with manuscript invitation in English (to Mrs Argyle), written vertically and initialed in Japanese characters at the foot; …
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# 20750
McCRAE, Dorothy Frances
The clear call
Melbourne : George Robertson & Company, [1915]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 40, occasional foxing. Wartime poetry about ANZAC troops following Gallipoli.
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# 20072
HSU, Shushi
The North China problem
Prepared under the auspices of the Council of International Affairs, Nanking. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, 1937. Octavo, paper wrappers with pasted on title (rubbed to spine), pp. [vi]; 112, internally clean. Concerns the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
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# 19431
SHUCK, Jehu Lewis (1812-1863)
Portfolio Chinensis : or, A collection of authentic Chinese state papers illustrative of the history of the present position of affairs in China.
With a translation, notes and introduction. Macao : Printed by the Translator at the New Washington Press of F. F. de Cruz, 1840. Octavo, marbled paper wrappers; discrete private collection stamp of G.D. Musso to title page, pp xvi, 191; most of the Chinese is printed from woodblocks, with one edict by Governor Lin Tse-hsu …
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# 19432
NYE, Gideon (1812-1888)
Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace : a lecture delivered before the Canton community on the evening of April 14th 1873.
Also titled: Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace. Comprising an inquiry into the origin of the pretension of universal supremacy by China and into the causes of the first war: with incidents of the imprisonment of the foreign community and of the first campaign of Canton. 1841. Canton : s.n., 1873. Small quarto, original …
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# 19665
CHRISTIE'S
The Trafalgar Bicentenary. The age of Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon
London : Christie’s 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 373, extensively illustrated. Landmark auction catalogue of the Napoleonic era.
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# 19867
RUSSELL-ROBERTS, Denis
My own war in Malaya
s.l. : s.n., [1946]. Octavo, maroon buckram over boards (rubbed and lightly marked), upper board lettered in gilt (dulled), pp [8], 183, with 6 double-page sketch maps; a presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free-endpaper ‘To Buttercup and Victor, Best wishes, Denis. 29.1.46’; laid in at the front of the book are …