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The Defence of Sevastopol, Assault of the 6th June 1855. Neatly handwritten on company stationary single pages, as translated by C. Leonard Hurt aboard HMS Canterbury March 23rd 1919 at Sevastopol, intepreted by Lieut Campbell R.N aboard. Together with the original book in Russian published St. Petersburg 1909. 14pp and 6 photo print pages. Paper green cover broken. Rare. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $60
The Australian Memorial, NSW edn, 1919, 158pp with photos, insert photo of first owner Dann, Joseph H, 3rd Field Bakery in uniform. Nearly fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $100
Australian military history, Australian War Memorial, Reproductions in Colour and Duotone of Official War Paintings, 1933, 52 colour plates, leather-bound. Some edge wear otherwise very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Australian War Memorial, Pictorial History of Australia at War 1939-1945, vols I-V Kingsgrove, 1957; Odhams Press London, The War in Pictures, years 1-6. Good. (11)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Australia in the War of 1939-1945, series 1 (Army) I-VII, series 2 (Navy) I and II, series 3 (RAAF) I and II. Unmatched set, two without dust covers, one ex library, otherwise good - fine. (11)
Estimate $130
SOLD $60
Australian War Memorial, 'Wartime' magazine, issues 1-33, Nov 1997 - Mar 2006. In protective sleaves, extremely fine. Also various militaria auction catalogues. (33 magazines plus catalogues)
Estimate $80
SOLD $120
The Amalgamated Press Ltd, The War Illustrated vols 1-9. Good. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Military literature, Ambrose, Stephen E., D-Day, 1994, Simon & Schuster, New York, 655pp, hardbound; Arnold-Forster, Mark, The World at War, 1974, Book Club, London, 340pp, hardbound; Bowen, Ezra, Knights of the Air, 1980, Time-Life, London, 192pp, hardbound; Burchill, Elizabeth, The Paths I've Trod, 1982, Spectrum, Melbourne, 250pp; Gillet, Ross, Australia's Military Aircraft, Aerospace, 1987, 226pp; Glynn, Paul, A Song for Nagasaki, 1990, 168pp; Gwynn-Jones, Terry, Heroic Australian Air Stories, 1981, Rigby, Adelaide, 192pp, hardbound; Manchester, William, Last Lion, Vol II (Alone) 1937-40, 1988, Dell, New York, 768pp; Miller, Russell, Nothing Less Than Victory - The Oral History of D-Day, 1993, Michael Joseph, London, 496pp, hardbound; Nelson, Hank, Prisoners of War - Australians Under Nippon, 1985, ABC, Sydney, 224pp; Page, Martin, Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major - Songs and Ballads of World War II, 1973, Hart-Davis, London, 192pp; Pearson, Ross A., Australians at War in the Air 1939-1945, 1995, Kangaroo, Sydney, 140pp; Peters, J and Nichol, J., Team Tornado - Life on a Front-line Squadron, 1994, M Joseph, London, 245pp, hardbound. Also Arenhovel, Topography of Terror, 1999, 239pp; Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS, 1997, 254pp; Australian War Memorial, As You Were 1947, 201pp, hardbound; Battle of the Beachheads 1942-43, Department of Veteran's Affairs, 2002, 52pp; The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels and Other Verses, 64pp. Fine - very fine. (19)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Apple, Nick P. and Gurner, Gene, The (US) Air Force Museum, 1978, Crown, New York, 216pp, hardbound; Bean, C.E.W., Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18, Vol V The AIF In France 1918, 7th Edition, 1940, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 825pp, hardbound; Bowman, Martin, Thunder in the Heavens - Classic American Aircraft of World War II, 1994, Tiger, London, 144pp, hardbound; Boyle, David, World War II in Photographs, 1998, Rebo, Lisse (Netherlands), 600pp, hardbound; Francillon, Ren‚ J, Vietnam Airwars, 1987, Aerospace, London, 255pp, hardbound; Glover, Edward, War, Sadism & Pacifism, 1933, Allen & Unwin, London, 148pp, hardbound; Gunston, Bill, Modern Military Aircraft, 1979, Salamander, London, 256pp, hardbound; Hackworth, Colonel David H., About Face, 1990, Simon & Schuster, New York, 875pp; Kipling, Rudyard, Barrack-Room Ballads, 1965, Methuen, London, 208pp, hardbound; Lind, Lew, Historical Naval Events of Australia - Day-by-Day, 1982, Reed, 272pp, hardbound; Oldham, Geoffrey P., Badges and Insignia of the New Zealand, 1997, Oldham, Auckland, 88pp; Taylor, A.J.P., The Origins of the Second World War, 1964, Penguin, Middlesex, 357pp; Watt, Donald, Stoker - The Story of an Australian Soldier Who Survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1995, Sage, Sydney, 219pp; Wilson, Stewart, The Spitfire, Mustang and Kittyhawk In Australian Service, 1988, Aerospace, 185pp. Also Anti Guerilla Operations in South East Asia, 1963, Crown, 138pp; Corps Lists of Officers of the Australian Regular Army and Regular Army Supplement, 1967, 1970, Canberra, 184pp, 283pp; Royal Australian Airforce, The Golden Years 1921-1971, 1971, Australian Government, Canberra, 124pp; histories of Westpac and armed services (2), The Desert War, 1975, Purnell, 65pp. Fine - very fine. (21)
Estimate $120
SOLD $40
Bean, C.E.W., Official History of Australians in the War of 1914-1918, XII volumes, not a matched set.
Estimate $600
SOLD $0
Boyle, Andrew, Trenchard - Man of Vision, 1962, Collins, London, 768pp, hardbound; Eade, Charles, Victory - War Speeches by the Rt Hon Winston S Churchill, 1946, Cassell, London, 239pp, hardbound; Divine, A.D., Road to Tunis, 1944, Collins, London, 256pp, hardbound (spine part detached); Edwards, Herbert, Their Lawful Occasions, 1956, Marshall, London, 256pp, hardbound; Gleeb, Norman, Scramble - A Narrative History of the Battle of Britain, 1985, Harcourt, London, 348pp, hardbound; Gray, Edward, Imperial Defence College, 1977, Crown, 83pp, hardbound; Hickling, Vice Admiral Harold, One Minute of Time - The Melbourne Voyager Collision, 1965, Reed, Sydney, 234pp, hardbound; McCombs, Don, World War II - 4,139 Strange and Fascinating Facts, 1994, Random House, New York, 659pp, hardbound; Page, Geoff, Benton's Conviction, 1985, Angus & Robertson, London, 175pp, hardbound; Perret, Geoffery, Old Soldiers Never Die, 1996, Random House, New York, 663pp, hardbound; Reynolds, Quentin, The Curtain Rises, 1944, Cassell, London, 291pp, hardbound; Dress Rehearsal, 1943, Angus & Robertson, London, 199pp, hardbound; Terraine, John, The Road to Passchendale,1977, Cooper, London, 365pp, hardbound; Tupper, Admiral Sir Reginald, Reminiscences, 1931, Jarrolds, London, 281pp, hardbound, autographed by author with note inked to former colleague. Also other minor publications (7). Fine - very fine. (18)
Estimate $120
SOLD $40
Cassells, Vic., The Destroyers; The Capital Ships, Roseville, 2000; Hall, R.J., The Australian Light Horse, Blackburn, 1968; Laffin, John., Guide to Australian Battlefields of the Western Front 1916-1918, Kenthurst, 1992; Massey, Graeme., Gallipoli Heroes, Warracknabeal, 2004; Harding, B., and Wigmore, L., They Dared Mightily, Sydney, 1963; Thomason, W.E., Marching On - The Bendigo Regiments and Companies 1858-1988, Bendigo, 1989. Good. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Military history, Cawthorne, Nigel, D-Day - Dawn of Heroes, 2004, Selectabook, Wiltshire, 144pp; De La Billiere, General Sir Peter, Storm Command - A Personal Account of the Gulf War, 1992, Harper Collins, Glasgow, 348pp; Denton, Kit, Gallipoli - One Long Grave, 1988, Time-Life, Sydney, 168pp, hardbound; Doyle, John, Changi (script, television series), 2001, ABC, Sydney, 289pp; Forty, George, The First Victory - O'Connor's Desert Triumph, 1990, Guild, 191pp, hardbound; Galland, Adolf, The First and the Last, 1955, Readers Book Club, London, 385pp, hardbound; Kipling, Rudyard, Barrack Room Ballads, Heron, London, 208pp, hardbound; McKernan, Michael, All In! Australia During the Second World War, 1984, Nelson, Melbourne, 286pp, hardbound; McKinlay, Brian, Australia 1942 - End of Innocence, 1985, Collins, Sydney, 208pp, hardbound; Macdougall, Tony, War Letters of General Monash, 2002, Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 224pp; Melegari, Vezio, Great Sieges, 1970, Collins, London, 126pp, hardbound; Nalty, Bernard et al, Illustrated Guide to, Air War Over Vietnam, 1981, Salamander, London, 159pp, hardbound; Prange, Gordon W., Pearl Harbour - The Verdict of History, 1986, McGraw-Hill, 699pp, hardbound; Reader's Digest, True Stories of Great Escapes, Vols 1-2, 1991, 704pp, hardbound; Simpson, John, From the House of War, 1991, Arrow, London, 390pp; Watt, Donald, Stoker - The Story of an Australian Soldier Who Survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1995, Viacom, 173pp. Fine - very fine. (18)
Estimate $120
SOLD $50
Military and political history, Cawthorne, Nigel, Vietnam - A War Won and Lost, 2003, Arcturus, London, 240pp; Carlyon, Les, Gallipoli, 2001, MacMillan, Sydney, 600pp; Day, David, John Curtin - a life, 1999, HarperCollins, Sydney, 610pp, hardbound; Geddes, Margaret, Blood, Sweat and Tears, 2004, Penguin, London, 503pp; Geraghty, Tony, Who Dares Wins - The Store of the SAS 1950-1980, 1980, Collins, Glasgow, 339pp; Keneally, Thomas, Schindler's Ark, 1982, Hemisphere, London, 432pp, hardbound; O'Brien, Terence, Out of the Blue - A Pilot with the Chindits, 1984, Collins, London, 272pp, hardbound; Ryan, Cornelius, A Bridge Too Far, 1975, Coronet, Hodder and Stoughton, 576pp; Speer, Albert, Inside the Third Reich, 1998 (fourth imprint), Phoenix, 821pp; Thomas, Lowell & Jablonski, Edward, Bomber Command - The Life of James H. Doolittle, 1976, Sidgwick & Jackson, 368pp, hardbound; Waller, Douglas C., Big Red - Three Months on Board a Trident Nuclear Submarine, 2001, HarperCollins, New York, 336pp; Wood, Derek, Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook, 1982 (new addition), Jane's, London, 559pp. Illustrated Guides to Modern Elite Forces, German, Italian and Japanese Fighters of World War II and Modern Warships, 1980, 1992, Salamander, London, 160pp each, hardbound. Also minor fiction and non-fiction works (8). Fine-very fine. (23)
Estimate $120
SOLD $40
Ellis, Capt A.D. M.C., The Story of the Fifth Australian Division. With foxing, good.
Estimate $100
SOLD $40
Favine, Andrew.,The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood, London, Printed by William Jaggard, 1623, 2 parts in 1. [18], [24], 572; 406, [18], 407-538 pp. Title-page printed in red and black, 12 pages of woodcut illustrations at the front printed on rectos only; plus numerous woodcut illustrations within text. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials. Shoulder notes. (Folio) 13x8, period blind-ruled speckled calf. Massive compendium of the various chivalric orders throughout Europe, translated into English, with histories of arms, emblazons, escutcheons, descriptions of the different crowns; covers military orders and religious knights, etc. Also of interest to the Shakespearian scholar as this volume was printed by the same printer later in the same year as he printed the First Folio. Both books contain the same emblematic head-pieces and tail-pieces. Binding worn at edges and spine, upper and lower cover nearly detached; internally about fine or better, a little dust-soiling and soft creasing to first and last few leaves, otherwise very nice and crisp.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,250
Harding, William., War in South Africa 1899, 690pps, rebound copy. Good.
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Military books, including Army Lists 1951, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1966; Corps Lists of Officers, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979; Army Lists of Officers, 1970. Some spine damaged on one. (11)
Estimate $200
SOLD $250
Military books, including Graduation List of Officers of the Australian Military Forces Active List, 1946; Regimental Lists. Worn. (12)
Estimate $250
SOLD $320
Military books, including McNeill, Ian., The Team Australian Army Advisors in Vietnam 1962-1972, Queensland, 1984; Wigmore, Lionel., They Dared Mightily, Canberra, 1986; Davis, Brian Leigh., Badges - Insignia of the Third Reich 1933-1945, London, 1997; Lyndhurst, Joe., Military Collectable, London, 1983. Good. (13)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Military books, including Regimental Lists and Manning Tables of Officers on the Active List, 1944; Graduation List of Officers 1945; 1941; Army List of the Australian Military Forces 1940; Staff and Regimental Lists of Officers 1941. Some with covers and spines missing. (12)
Estimate $200
SOLD $290
Military books, including Turner, John Frayn., VCs of the Air, London, 1993; Bennett, John., Highest Traditions, History of No.2 Squadron RAAF, Canberra, 1995; Gliddon, Gerald., VCs of the First World War, Arras & Messines 1917; U.K., 2000; Snelling, Stephen/. VCs of the World War, Gallipoli, U.K., 1999; Lunn, Hugh., Vietnam A Reporter's War, Queensland, 1985. Used - new. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $50
Bean, C.E.W., The Official History of Australian in the War of 1914-18, Vol XII (Photographic Record of the War), 14th edition, 1940, Angus & Robertson, Sydney. Also Adam-Smith, Patsy, Australian Women at War, 1984, Nelson, 386pp hardbound; Anderson, Francis, Peace or War, 1935, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 47pp; Odgers, George, 100 Year of Australians at War, 2000, Ken Fin, Melbourne, 400pp; Robinson, Bruce, Record of Service, 1944, Macmillan, London, 177pp, hardbound; Deutschlands Kriegsflotte, illustrated, minor fiction titles (5). Official Australian military publications, R.A.S.C. Basic Training - Animal Transport, Part III, 1922, 392pp; Manual of Elementary Drill (All Arms), 1935, 98pp plus 11 plates; Improvised First Aid Methods in the Treatment of Battle Casualties, 1943, 13pp; Infantry Brigade Headquarters, 1939, Defence Against Gas, 1939, Wire Obstacles, 1942 (reprint of 1939), Withdrawal, 1943, Military Map Reading, 1943; New Testament - Active Service Edition, pocket-size, circa 1943; The Seventeenth Infantry Brigade Magazine, c.1945; A Guide to Customs of the Army, 1983. Generally fine. (21)
Estimate $200
SOLD $50
Police books, Grant, M., They Served in Khaki & Blue, Victorian Police in the Military Forces During World War I, Gisborne, 2005; Farmery, Peter J., Police Gallantry, Nth Manly, 1995; Hardy-Rix, S., & Starely, R., True Blue, Melbourne, 1997; Evans, J.W., Piping Through Time, Westgarth, 1986; Carey, David., On Patrol in Gippsland, Bairnsdale, 2001. Good. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Police books, Ascoli, D., The Queen's Peace (Origins and Development of the Metropolitan Police 1829-1979); Hiscox, C.L., The Down Stand to (The Life of I V B P Mills QPM, CPM); Wall, David S., The Chief Constables of England and Wales; Herlihy, Jim., The Dublin Metropolitan Police; Morton, G.J., Just do the Job (Some Experiences of a Colonial Policeman); Annieson, A., The One Eyed Dragon (Inside Story of a Hong Kong Policeman); Clarke, Hugh V., The Long Arm; Ministere De L'Interieur and Ministere De La Defense Nationale., Encyclopedie Nationale De La Police, La Gendarmerie Nationale; also Police and Constabulary Official Registrar 1961, 1972, 1997 and books relating to Hong Kong Police, The Northern Rhodesia Police Handbook. Good - very fine. (20)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Railways at War. A record of the Activities of the New South Wales Government Railways in the Second World War. Sydney, ND (1946?), 71 pages. An illustrated history of the Railways operation, works implements and staff during the war, includes a roll of honour. Fine.
Estimate $30
SOLD $20
Rosignoli, Guido., Illustrated Enclyclopedia of Military Insignia of the 20th Century; Joslin, E.C., Spinks Catalogue of British and Associated Orders, Decorations and Medals, 1983; Fearon, D., Spinks Catalogue of Commemorative Medals 1588 to the Present Day, 1984; Lehmann, Joseph., Remember You're an Englishman; Buggy, Hugh., Pacific Victory; Johnston, George H., Australia at War; Morrison, George., The Irish Civil War; Whiting, Charles., The Long March on Rome; Mockler, Anthony, Our Enemies The French. Good. (17)
Estimate $100
SOLD $40
Smitherman, P.H., Infantry Uniforms of the British Army, second series 1790-1850, third series 1850-1960; Legge-Bourke, Henry., The Household Cavalry: The Household Guards; Festberg, Alfred N., Uniforms of the Australian Colonies; Braddon, Russell., All the Queens Men; Coronation souvenir programmes (10), coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, May 12th 1937, Queen Elizabeth II; Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles., The Art of Heraldry, An Encyclopedia of Arms. Good. (18)
Estimate $100
SOLD $40
Assorted books on military collectables, model soldiers, including Rinker, H., and Herstand, R., World War II Collectables, London, 1993; Rosignali, G., Military Insignia of the 20th Century, Leichhardt, 1986; Badges and Insignia of World War II - Airforce, Naval, Marine, London, 1976; Rose, Andrew., Toy Soldiers, London, 1985; Cassin-Scott, Jack., Making Model Soldiers of the World, London, 1973; Harris, Henry., Model Soldiers, London, 1972; also Bond, Brian., Britain France and Belgium 1939-1940, London, 1990; Leverington, K., Fighting Aircraft of World War II, England, 1995; Stern, Robert C., Air War Over the Pacific, London, 1986; War Memorials of Victoria, 1994; Greener, W.W., Modern Breech-Loaders, London. Good. (28)
Estimate $100
SOLD $40