Lot 163
Arms and Armour
Catalogues and reference works
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Clarke, C. Purdon. Arms and Armour at Sandringham. London: W. Griggs & Sons, Ltd., 1910. Folio; [and] Griggs, W. Catalogue of the Collection of Indian Arms and Objects of Art presented by the princes and Nobles of India to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales...on the occasion of his visit to India in 1875-1876. Now in the Indian Room at Marlborough House. Folio; volumes in original uniform black quarter morocco with decorative paper covers, bookplates of Michael Moad, some splitting to joints;
Egerton, Wilbraham. An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms. London: William C. Allen & Co., 1880. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;
Brett, Edwin J. Catalogue of the Important Collection of Armour and Arms, many of which have been exhibited at the Tudor, Armada & Vietnam exhibitions... London; Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods, Monday March 18th -26th, 1895. 8vo, marked up by Alfred Nielson and inscribed to his friend in August 1895, with two additional bookplates, original paper-covered boards, joints split;
Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and his Craft. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912. 4to, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket, a neat, later, gift inscription;
Idem. European Arms and Armour in the University of Oxford. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1912. Original blue cloth gilt;
Idem. Inventory and Survey of the Armouries of the Tower of London. London: HMSO, [1916]. 2 volumes, original blue cloth gilt;
Idem. The Gun-Founders of England... Cambridge: University Press, 1937. Original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped;
Whitelaw, Charles E. European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries... London: Philip Lee Warner, [1923?] Folio, original cloth;
Trapp, Oswald, Graf. The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929. Out-of-Series edition of 400, original red cloth gilt, torn dust jacket;
Wilkinson, Henry. Engines of War... London: Longman, Orme, Brown, and Longmans, 1841. 8vo, original cloth gilt, library stamp; and a proof? copy, 1841, inscribed by Wilkinson to his daughter, withdrawn stamp of the Royal Armouries Library;
Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph. The Crossbow. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. 4to, original black cloth gilt, inscribed with the author's compliments;
Thordeman, Bengt. Armour from the Battle of Wisby, 1361. Uppsala, 1939. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth;
Stone, George Cameron. A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor. Portland: The Southworth Press, 1934. 4to, original cloth gilt;
Von Kienbusch, Carl Otto. The Kretzschmar Von Kienbusch Collection of Armor and Arms. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1963. 4to, original green cloth gilt, slipcase, bookplate of Michael Moad with signed typed letter to him from the author tipped-in;
Hoff, Arne - HD Schepelern and Gudmund Bosen. Royal Arms at Rosenborg. Copenhagen, 1956. 2 volumes, 4to, original wrappers, blue dust-jackets and slipcase;
North, C.N. McIntyre. The Book of the Club of the True Highlanders / Leabhar Comunn nam Fion Ghael. London: Richard Smythson, [1881]. 2 volumes, folio, 70 plates, North's signature in purple pencil to the introduction to the reader original cloth gilt in Graham and Farquharson tartans, bindings worn with some cloth torn, pages loose;
and 9 others: Pollard. A History of Firearms; Clephan. The Defensive Armour and Weapons and Engines of War of Mediaeval Times, and of the "Renaissance"; Clark. Mediaeval Military Architecture in England. 2 volumes; Ffoulkes. Arms and the Tower; Penrose. Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Firearms in the Museum of Applied Science of Victoria; Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour, parts 1-3 in two volumes; The Gun Trade Handbook...1906; Illustrated Catalogue of the Historical and World-Renowned Collection of Torture Instruments etc. from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg; De Lacy Lacy. The History of the Spur