Lot 5212

Description

Gallipoli Diary, by General Sir Ian Hamilton G.C.B., Volumes 1 and 2, 1st edition 1920, hard covers (14.7x22.7cm), 387pp and 349pp with b&w photos and map foldouts; Forty-One Years in India, from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief, by Field Marshal Lord Roberts K.P., V.C., 1st edition in one volume being 29th edition 1898, hard cover (14.7x20.8cm), 597pp; Empire of the East or Japan & Russia at War 1904-5, by Bennet Burleigh, 1905 edition intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies, hard cover (14.5x20.5cm), 458pp; An Outline of British Military History 1660-1936, by Major D.H.Cole and Major E.C.Priestley, 2nd edition 1937, hard cover (14.3x22.3cm), 448pp, signed inside front cover by W.J.V.Windeyer; The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783, by Captain A.T.Mahan, United States Navy, 1892, hard cover (16x23cm), 557pp, signed at front by W.J.V.Windeyer and J.Le Gay Brereton. The first volume with loose cover at front and loose first page with tear, edges of many other pages roughened, some with small tears or paper loss, the last book with spine damage, all with some foxing, otherwise good - very good. (6)

J.Le Gay Brereton (poet, critic and Professor of English at Sydney University) and W.J.V.Windeyer (Maj. Gen. and Justice of High Court of Australia).