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LOT 2224
General Books - Histoire de L'Armee Francaise
1887 A.D.
8 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. (539 grams, 22 x 14 cm).
Paul Lehugeur - Paris, 1887, cloth covers, 221 pp, gold blocking to edges; to inside cover, pasted label indicating the book having been awarded as a prize for handwriting in 1892. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex gentleman.
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General Books - Field Sketchbook of Lucien Jonas - Armee Anglaise
1915 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Lucien Jonas - Reproduction of the field sketchbook of Jonas subtitled 'Armée Anglaise Juin 1915' (British Army, June 1915) with studies of Sir John French, Douglas Haig, Brigadier Maurice, General Lambton and other officers, many with a location; inside front cover with listing of British and Indian regimental officers; inside back cover with list of Interpreters, French and Belgian mission officers, studies of Ypres (2) and the Pas de Calais; hardback with cloth covers (partly detached)' publisher's note to inside back cover (in French) stating that this sketchbook by the painter Jonas, who was attached to the Musée de l' Armée, has been reproduced in facsimile through Librarie Dorbon-Ainé in Paris; this volume is one of 200 monochrome offprints; with artist's manuscript initials. 799 grams, 32.2 x 24.2 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Unique first-hand study of the British Army in the early stages of the First World war. -
General Books - Histoire de L'Armee Francaise
1887 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Paul Lehugeur - Paris, 1887, cloth covers, 221 pp, gold blocking to edges; to inside cover, pasted label indicating the book having been awarded as a prize for handwriting in 1892. 539 grams, 22 x 14 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
General Books - A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America
1896 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £9
Thomas Nuttall - Vol.II Game and Water Birds - Boston, 1896, hardback with cloth covers, 431 pp. 993 grams, 21.5 x 15 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
