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Catalogue No. 184 “Ciudad Rodrigo”
December 2022
My final catalogue for 2022 has taken some time to complete. It includes a fine and
extensive selection of choice new stock commencing with an excellent range of
memoirs and other works relating to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo.
Other categories include the customary offering of interesting and collectable
volumes, notably a very good selection of Rolls of Honour of the Great War, 1914-
1918.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all my customers for their orders throughout
what has felt like another long year, and to wish you all a very happy Christmas.
We are a leading dealers in rare and second hand books on British military history from around 1800 to 1945. The Great War, 1914-1918, has always been our speciality and we hold extensive stocks of regimental and divisional histories, official histories, standard works, memoirs, Rolls of Honour, Army Lists and so forth. For more information see www.turnerdonovan.com. |
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The Advance from Mons 1914.
 Highly regarded account by an officer of the German 12th Brandenburg Grenadier Regt., from Mons (where they were heavily engaged with 1st RWK in 5th Div.) to the Aisne. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG in neatly internally repaired but complete & rare dw with neat pencil ownership inscrip. "James Farrell 17-3-31" plus a very interesting loosely inserted handwritten letter from FM Montgomery of Alamein, although at the time of writing (October 1931) he was commanding the 1st Battalion of his regiment - The Royal Warwickshire Regiment - in Palestine (regimental notepaper with ms. note Jerusalem at head): "My dear Farrell, I return one of the books: The Advance from Mons. It is quite the best book of its kind that I have read. It is particularly interesting to me in that I was there at the time, and in many of the engagements mentioned. I was actually opposite Capt. Bloem and his Brandenburg Grenadiers. Thank you very much for letting me read it. Yrs. sincerely B.L. Montgomery." A great copy, rare in dw & read by Monty! See illustrations on our website. 1930 £375
My Seventy-Five: Journal of a French Gunner (August-September 1914).
 Classic French account of 1914 in the ranks of an artillery unit armed with the famous 75mm. Battles of the Marne, Aisne &c. Author was KiA 1916. Orig. maroon cloth, gilt, VG in dw, this with some neat internal renovation but excellent copy thus & rare in dw, especially in this condition. See illustration on our website. 1929 £145
The Battle Below: Being the History of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps.
 A very fine, detailed account of the operations of this Army Co-operation Squadron, i.e., artillery observation &c., flying RE8s in France 1917-1918 (Flanders, Somme, Amiens 1918 &c.), with excellent photos. (inc. several named group photos.) & fine maps. Appendices include rolls of all ranks who served with the squadron, roll of awards. Orig. blue cloth, titled in black, VG in internally repaired but equally nice dw. It is believed that just 75 copies were printed, & it is certainly exceptionally rare, especially in this condition with dw, & this copy additionally inscribed "Helen Wrigley" - presumably a relative of the author. See illustrations on our website. 1935 £850
Sans Peur: The History of the 5th (Caithness & Sutherland) Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, 1942-1945.
 Western Desert, Tunisia & NW Europe campaigns with 51st (Highland) Div. Roll of Hon., awards. Very well written & rare: very nice copy in exceptionally rare dw. See illustrations on our website. 1946 £165
Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army under the Duke of Wellington in Spain, between the years 1811 & 1814.
 Definitive study of siege operations in the Peninsula. Excellent near contemp. hatched full calf boards, dec. spines with leather lettering labels, neatly rebacked with orig. sps. laid down, very attractive copy thus. See illustration on our website. 1827 £250
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The German Air Force in Maps & Diagrams 1939-43.
 Air Publication 3038. November, 1943. (RESTRICTED) FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY. NOT TO BE TAKEN INTO THE AIR. Valuable contemp. official survey including sections on: Operational Areas of Commands; Administrative & Supply Areas; Flying Units; Army & Naval Co-Operation; Air Transport; Supply & Maintenance; Signals; Training, each supported with interesting maps &/or diagrams, The work covers the Fronts in Europe, Russia & North Africa, with Appendices on Functions of the Luftflotten, Fliegerkorps & Lufgaus; Moves of the Fliegerkorps; Functions of Airfield Commands; Ground Organisation in North Africa (March, 1943); Flying Units & Their Mobility; Naval Co-operation & Air Transport (Employment of). Orig. orange printed wraps., VG, full of interesting detail & seems to be a rare survival. See illustrations on our website. 1943 £165
The Ninth Queen's Royal Lancers 1936-1945: The Story of an Armoured Regiment in Battle.
 Superb history: BEF 1940, Western Desert (Gazala, Alamein &c.) & Italy campaigns, starting off in cruiser tanks, then Crusaders, Grants & Shermans. Roll of Hon., awards, officers' services, nominal roll. Very well illustrated. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, fine copy in little chipped, attractive & rare dw. See illustration on our website. 1951 £175
Wykehamists Who Died in the Great War 1914-1918.
 Excellent obits. & portraits of the 500 Wyekhamists who fell. Orig. qtr. cloth with printed paper covd. boards, amongst the rarest of all the public school Rolls of Honour. Somewhat tanned o/w excellent clean set. See illustrations on our website. 1921 £450
Account of the War in Spain & Portugal, And in The South of France, from 1808, to 1814, Inclusive.
 Standard study: revised & enlarged 2nd edition but without the rare Atlas volume. Very nice near contemp. full calf, raised bands to sps., sps. richly gilt with leather lettering labels, a very attractive pair indeed, exceptional state throughout, Vol I with ink ownership inscrip. "E. Florence Jones" - presumably a relative of the author. See illustration on our website. 1821 £275
The Marquis of Wellesley's History of the Marhatta War [AKA:] Notes Relative to the Late Transactions in the Marhatta Empire.
 Wellesley's despatches as C-in-C of the Madras Army during the Mahratta War 1802-03 when, inter al., the Mahratta Force was defeated at the Battles of Assaye & Gwalior. The title page calls for "five military plans" but these are rarely present, a tipped-in note from the Publisher stating that "anxious to gratify the Public by laying before them, at the earliest moment, the following Narrative, would not delay it on account of the Plans, which will be ready in a very few days, and which may be had of him price 4s. 6 d. neatly coloured." Indeed, it is unusual to see even one of the fldg. coloured maps (in this case, the Battle of Delhi, fought on 11th Sept. 1803, & a most excellent map), present. See illustrations on our website. 1804 £425
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