Robinson Commander Chas (25 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 20 pages. Illustrated. Whale Island: The Naval Gunnery School at Portsmouth / The Royal Military Academy / Wonderful photographs (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. The Calcutta Naval Volunteers On Parade / Lawrence Swinburne "Our Special Correspondent Afloat" / Red Cross "Tommy Atkins Married" / The 19th (Princess Of Wales's Own) Hussars On Parade At Bangalore (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Commander T C Fenton "Some Stories Of The Whitehead Torpedo" / Major Dalbiac "Polo In The Army" / The "Little Army" Of Trinidad - Marvellous period advertisements.U.K. Military history with photos & info -Over 125 years old. (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. TARS of the "NILE" - Training and Temperance / Edward Fraser "The True Story Of Nelson's Famous Signal" / F Hamilton-Knight "Stage Soldiers And Soldiers On The Stage" / Our Indian Army - The 26th Punjab Regiment of Bengal Infantry. U.K. Military history with photos & info -Over 125 years old. Marvellous period advertisements. (Papers). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. Admiral Sir R Vesey Hamilton "Arctic Reminiscences" / "Football in the Army" / "On Service Across the Atlantic" (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. "The Sea Regiment" by one of the Units / Marvellous period advertisements.U.K. Military history with photos & info - Over 125 years old. (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. Francis Miller "The Food Of The Bluejacket" / Captain Claude Bray "Our Four-Footed Soldiers". U.K. Military history with photos & info -Over 125 years old. Marvellous period advertisements. (Papers).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No date of publication given; published 1900 according to Jisc Library Hub Discover. Tall 8vo. 122 pages. Beige cloth boards with bevelled edges; decorations and titles in gilt and black. Text block with all edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. Photographic portrait of Queen Victoria as frontispiece; numerous monochrome illustrations, mostly photographic, some full-page; several maps. 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at front and rear. Boards lightly rubbed; corners bumped; ends of spine crushed. A few spots on endpapers; otherwise pages almost entirely clean. Binding firm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No date of publication given; published 1900 according to Jisc Library Hub Discover. Tall 8vo. 128 pages. Beige cloth boards with bevelled edges; decorations and titles in gilt and black. Text block with all edges gilt. Black endpapers. Photographic portrait of Lord Roberts as frontispiece; numerous monochrome photographic illustrations, some full-page; several maps. 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at front. Boards lightly rubbed; corners bumped; ends of spine crushed; a few spots on spine and rear board. Pages clean. Binding firm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Brown decorated cloth boards with black lettering to spine and brown lettering to front. All edges gilt. Boards have marks commensurate with age. Slight bumping to corners. Spine is slightly age darkened with bumping to ends. Textblock is in good condition, clean and tight. 122 pp + catalogue of other titles. Previous owner's bookplate showing this to be a prize from Sunday Schools (Derby), awarded to Sydney Davis for diligence and good conduct. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 574g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 035531:13g) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 574 G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date circa 1900. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Undated history of Transvaal and South Africa with maps etc Book 1 The Making of War by Wheeler128 pages Book 2 The Stoey of South Africa by John Leyland 122 pages well illustrated Prize lable on front paste down Boards darkened edges rubbes.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No DW. 1st Edition. Red cloth lettered in gold. 72 colour portraits with accompanying text. Clean tight text. Upper inner hinge celotaped. COVERS VERY WORN. So just a good working copy. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1800g.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No DW. 1st Edition. Green cloth lettered in gold. 72 colour portraits with accompanying text. Clean tight text. COVERS VERY MARKED. So just a good working copy. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1800g.

8vo, 122 pages, over 200 illustrations, six specially prepared maps, calendar of dates, adverts : the double column text gives a history from 1795 to 1899; thin card covers, sl loss to top & base of backstrip, almost vg south africa natal cape colony boer war african history transvaal south african history boers dutch africa.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. A large-format catalogue of more than seventy major figures in the British Army, including Kitchener, Roberts, and Wolseley. Colour illustrations and biographical accounts. Originally issued in part-work format and bound into one volume by the publishers. Condition: Some bending to the corners of the covers and splitting to the lower spine. Fading and discolouring to the cover and some of the pages, otherwise a firm binding. Copyright A© Newnes.…

Large 4to. 144pp. Original gilt-blocked blue cloth. Full-page colour plates. A very good copy. First complete edition (origially issued in parts). Great leaders of the Boer War period: Baden Powell, Redvers Buller et al.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ND, bookplate to front pastedown dated 1902. AEG. Boards a little grubby with fingerprints, pp 79-82 loosely attached, several cracked gutters, the odd fingerprint to pp, else text and plates clean and bright. Size: 4to.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Type: Z 144pp. 1900. First edition. A lovely, clean, tight bright copy in very good or very good plus condition. Original publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine and to the front board. Bevelled edges. Original yellow endpapers. 72 colour plates illustrate the text. The text block, like the book remains very clean and tight. There are several bumps to the board edges - one with the slightest of associated splits to the cloth. There are several light rub marks to the rear board. There is a 1cm closed tear to the head of the front endpaper - now expertly repaired. A lovely, clean, tight very well preserved copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Spine is sunned, heavily worn, particularly at head and tail edge. Tears in cloth binding nearly the entire length between spine and boards. Boards are stained and worn, particularly around edges, bumped at corners. Gilt edges scuffed, with some staining. Some wear to endpapers, back free endpaper half-detached, with 35mm tear in bottom edge. Front free endpaper also slightly detached from bottom edge. Pages are browned, many are foxed and stained, some torn. Occasional pencil marks. Stamp on front free endpaper. Book is very worn, in poor condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound. **This book weighs over 1kg and may attract additional postage charges for international buyers. Please contact the bookseller for a quote.…

Nearly two Hundred Illustrations and several Specially Prepared Maps. 122 pp. Octavo. Gilt stamped cloth. Cover slightly rubbed, otherwise in a good condition. britische Kolonien.

307 pp, b&w photographic plates, maps (4 folding), intermittent foxing, spine sunned, cloth on upper board bubbled, else very good copy in illustrated, blue, cloth boards.

Paper Wraps. Condition: Very Good Minus. A selection of this magazine journal comprising a total of 67 magazines running from January 1896 to July 1898 with 9 magazines missing. Also a special double number October 21st 1897 with white paper wraps. There are also the paper wraps for the first journal of Volume I published in December 1895 without the body of the magazine. The magazines are illustrated with numerous line drawings and numerous contemporary advertisements. Most of the magazines are in very good condition with complete wraps attached to the pages, though tanned. There is slight soiling to a the periphery of several magazines and several of the magazines have a few short tears from the edges of the paper wraps and creasing to the corners. 6 of the magazines have loose paper wraps with a couple having split spines. The paper wraps for volume one are separated and have several tears from the edges. A few small areas of loss to a few of the magazine wraps. On the whole the magazines are clean. Most of the staples are present but rusty. A good collection of this antiquarian magazine series.…

Numerous coloured portraits. Very good in red green cloth. London, Newnes.

Paper Covers. Condition: Very Good. [All 12 volumes] 96 pp. Green illustrated paper covers in a paper folder. Filled with stories of the British navy and fantastic full-page colour illustrations of battle-ships; an essential artifact for those interested in the history of the British navy or battle-ships in general. A small burn to first volume, however, text of leaves are unaffected. Some slight staining/yellowing to boards and leaves but inside is generally pleasant and colours on the illustrations vibrant. Oblong 4to. Dixon, Charles (illustrator).…