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Dave Ryan of Caliver Books writes:

All the secondhand listed below are from the Collection. Probably about four more months' worth at the going rate, so watch this space!


Panzer Lehr – Bolt Action

H29444 – Panzer Lehr – Bolt Action – 402212010 / Warlord Games. £17.00 GBP

H29445 – Their Infantry and Guns Will Astonish You: The Army of Hindustan and European Mercenaries in Maratha Service 1780-1803 / Copestake, Andy. 240 pages, eight color plates, 25 black-and-white illustrations, two maps, six tables. By the middle of the 18th Century, the Mughal Empire in India was in serious decline. The rulers of the various breakaway successor states faced a major military problem. Their armies were being effortlessly scattered by much smaller forces of European-led and -trained troops. Their immediate answer was to buy in specialist help in the form of European mercenaries to train their own troops in the methods of the victorious British and French. £19.99 GBP

H29446 – New Knights: The Development of Cavalry in Western Europe, 1562-1700 – 242 pages, 85 black-and-white illustrations, seven black-and-white maps, five diagrams. Analysis of what constitutes the principal combat action of heavy cavalry: the charge. Whilst centered on France, this study refers to the whole of Europe. The battlefields of the French Wars of Religion to the War of the Spanish Succession are examined in detail, along with the types of cavalry, their equipment, and how they performed on the battlefield. £19.50 GBP

H29447 – English Civil War: Secrets of Wargames Design, A Tabletop Toolkit of Ideas, Analysis & Rule Mechanics / Simon, Wally. 40 pages. Large-format paperback. Volume 9 in this superb series. (See Secrets of… in the wargames sections of the website.) Includes very basic solo ECW rules. £16.50 GBP

Wargames Soldiers & Strategy 115

H29448 – Wargames Soldiers & Strategy 115: American Civil War theme. £5.50 GBP

H29449 – Wargames Illustrated #404. Free skirmish rules for any period. £5.25 GBP

WWI Trench Systems

H29450 – WWI Trench Systems: Wargames Terrain and Buildings / Hardy. Making terrain for wargamers. Building British, German and French trenches, as well as developments in defenses through the phases of the war. £13.99 GBP


The List Below Includes Some of the Duncan Macfarlane Book Collection, With Proceeds Going to the Gurkha Welfare Trust


51071 – Mau Mau: An African Crucible / Edgerton, Robert B. Hardback, 298 pages, black-and-white illustrations. Condition like new, very good. £15.00 GBP

51072 – Kampfgruppe Commander (Clash of Armor 2nd edition) – GV paperback. 6mm-20mm games in under three hours. Fast-play grand-tactical WWII rules. £16.00 GBP

51073 – Mounted Infantry at War / St Leger, Cpt. 280 pages, near-fine hardback facsimile of this Boer War memoir. Illustrated. £19.50 GBP

51074 – La Garde Imperiale a Pied / Pigeard, Alain & Bourgeot. Paperback, published 1974, 98 pages. Illustrated with full-color illustrations throughout. French text, like new, small knock to corner of front cover. £25.00 GBP

51075 – La Guerre a Outrance / Shann, Steve. Franco-Prussian wargame rules from an expert in the period. Small pamphlet. English text. Condition looks new. £5.00 GBP

51076 – Les Cent Jours de Waterloo – French/English text. Hardback, all-color photos of the 1990 re-enactment. Very good condition hardback, 100 pages. £8.00 GBP

51077 – Les chars d'assaut: leur creation et leur role pendant la guerre, 1915-1918 / Dutil, Capitaine. Paperback, 243 pages. Illustrated with some black-and-white illustrations. French WWI tanks. French text. Condition like new. £6.95 GBP

51078 – Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History / Crosby, Alfred W. Hardback, 206 pages. Illustrated with full-color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Condition good. £12.00 GBP

51079 – Command or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918 / Samuels, Martin. Hardback, 339 pages. Condition new. Unread. Slight shelf-edge wear. £95.00 GBP

51080 – La Garde de Paris 1849-1870 – Tradition Magazine special. 76 pages, near-fine, large format paperback, exceptionally well illustrated in color French text. £20.00 GBP

51081 – Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715 / Lynn. Mint hardback, still in shrinkwrap (no jacket). £69.50 GBP

51082 – With the Guards in Flanders: The Diary of Captain Roger Morris, 1793-1795 (From Reason To Revolution) / Harrington, Peter. Paperback, published 168 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. Condition like new. Light surface-wear only. £12.00 GBP

51083 – Cavaliers: The Royalist Army at War, 1642-1646 / Barratt, John. Hardback, 244 pages, illustrated with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Condition: light shelf edge wear. Looks unread. New. £18.00 GBP

51084 – Second Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 (Wargaming in History) / Herbert. Mint paperback. £7.50 GBP

51085 – In Good Faith: A History of the Vietnam War, Volume I: 1945-65 / Rea. Near-mint hardback. £13.95 GBP

51086 – Major Robert Farmar of Mobile / Rea. Near-mint, crease to cover. Fought in Europe, Cuba and the Caribbean, then against the French in America. £16.50 GBP

51087 – Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon 1-5 / Phipps, R W. Near-mint hardback OUP 1968 5-volume set. £250.00 GBP

51088 – Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 / Rediker, Marcus. Paperback, 322 pages. Some black-and-white illustrations. Condition very good/near fine. £35.00 GBP

51089 – Battle of Poitiers 1356 / Green, David. Paperback, 153 pages, black-and-white illustrations. Condition very good. £6.00 GBP

51090 – Fleet Battle and Blockade: The French Revolutionary War 1793-1797 (Caxton pictorial histories) / ed. Gardiner, Robert. Hardback, 190 pages, black-and-white illustrations. Condition like new. £8.00 GBP

51091 – Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage / McWhinny & Jamieson. Hardback, 209 pages. Condition very good. £8.00 GBP

51092 – Blue, the Gray and the Red: Indian Campaigns of the Civil War / Hatch, Thom. Hardback, published, 274 pages, illustrated in black-and-white. Condition like new. £18.50 GBP

51093 – Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1793-1815 (Spring Symposia) / Lavery, Brian. Hardback, 352 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Condition very good. £25.00 GBP

51094 – Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship, 1650-1840 (Conway's History of the Ship) / Gardiner. Hardback, 208 pages, illustrated in black-and-white throughout. Condition like new. £12.50 GBP

51095 – Arming the Fleet: U.S. Navy Ordnance in the Muzzle-Loading Era / Tucker, Spencer. Hardback, 308 pages, illustrated in black-and-white. Like new. £75.00 GBP

51096 – Amazon Frontier: The Defeat Of The Brazilian Indians / Hemming, John. Hardback, 647 pages, illustrated in black-and-white. Condition like new. £8.00 GBP

51097 – Bush Fighting: Illustrated by Remarkable Actions and Incidents of the Maori War in New Zealand (Classic Reprint) – Paperback. Facsimile of original book, 326 pages, black-and-white illustrations. New. £15.00 GBP

51098 – Army of Tennessee: 30 (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) / Horn, Stanley F. Paperback. Condition new. Still in unopened shrink wrap. £10.00 GBP

51099 – Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson And America's First Military Battle / Remini, Robert V. Hardback, 226 pages, illustrated in black-and-white. New. £5.00 GBP

51100 – Civil War in Louisiana / Winters, John D. Paperback, 534 pages. Condition like new. £11.50 GBP

51101 – Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607-1713: History, Organization and Uniforms / Esposito. Hardback, 180 pages, illustrated in full-color and black-and-white. Condition new. Mint. £10.00 GBP

51102 – Bayonets, Bugles and Bonnets: Experiences of Hard Soldiering with the 71st Foot, the Highland Light Infantry, Through Many Battles of the Napoleonic Wars Including the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns / Todd, James Thomas. Paperback, 124 pages. Condition like new. £5.00 GBP

51103 – Buck Barry, Texas Ranger and Frontiersman / Greer, James K. Paperback, 254 pages. Condition very good. £27.50 GBP

51104 – Chasseur Barres – The experiences of a French Infantryman of the Imperial Guard at Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Friedland, in the Peninsular, Lutzen… and Hanau during the Napoleonic Wars. Barres, Jean Baptiste. Paperback, 303 pages. Condition new. £8.50 GBP

51105 – Armies of Angkor: Military Structure and Weaponry of the Khmers / Hergoualc'h. Hardback, 178 pages, illustrated in black-and-white throughout. Condition mint. Very slight shelf edge wear. Unread. £35.00 GBP

51106 – Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army / Cheesman, M.A. Paperback, 192 page. Condition new. £9.50 GBP

51107 – Capture of New Orleans, 1862 / Hearn, Chester G. Hardback, 292 pages, illustrated in black-and-white. Condition like new. Very slight shelf edge wear. £18.00 GBP

51108 – Battle of Copenhagen 1801 / Feldbaek, Ole. Hardback, published 1990, 270 pages, illustrated in black-and-white. Condition like new. Near fine. £8.50 GBP

51109 – After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942-1943 / Glantz, David M. Hardback, published, 534 pages, illustrated in black-and-white. Condition very good. £32.50 GBP

51110 – How to Survive Under Siege (Clarendon Ancient History Series) / Whitehead, David. Paperback, 214 pages. Condition like new. £20.00 GBP

51111 – Black Napoleon: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Liberator of Haiti / Hannon, James Jess. Paperback, 473 pages. Fiction. Condition like new. £15.00 GBP

51112 – Battle of Sackett's Harbor. 1813 / Wilder, Patrick A. Hardback. 134 pages, illustrated in black-and-white. Like new. Near fine. £59.50 GBP

51114 – Suicide Battalion: 46th Canadian Infantry on the Western Front, World War One / Williams & Steel. Paperback. 217 pages. Condition like new. Light surface wear only. £38.00 GBP

51115 – Story of Butler's Rangers / Cruikshank. Near-mint paperback reprint of this classic account of a not-quite-so-famous Ranger battalion in the AWI. £11.50 GBP

51116 – Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) / McMurry. 224 pages, near mint. £13.50 GBP

51117 – Gunpowder Armies / Newark, T. All-color plates, near-mint paperback. £7.25 GBP

51118 – Archidamian War (New History of the Peloponnesian War) / Kagan. Near-mint hardback, lacks jacket, 400 pages. £32.50 GBP

51119 – Blitzkrieg: Armor, Camouflage and Markings, 1939-40 / Zaloga. Near-mint, large format, all-color paperback. £25.00 GBP

51120 – Memoirs of a Polish Lancer: The Pamietniki of Dezydery Chlapowski / – Near-mint hardback. Napoleonic memoirs. £36.50 GBP

51121 – PBI II: Peter Pig 15mm WWII rules / Near mint. £5.00 GBP

51122 – Minden and the Seven Years War / Knowles. Near-fine quality paperback facsimile reprint by Ken Trotman Publishing. £11.50 GBP

51123 – Cannon: The Conservation, Reconstruction and Presentation of Historic Artillery / Carpenter. 200 pages, large format, very well illustrated hardback. £35.00 GBP

51124 – Combat: South Africa at War Along the Angolan Frontier / Venter. 330 pages, very well illustrated, near-mint hardback. £14.50 GBP

51125 – Battle Tactics of Napoleon and His Enemies: Brent Nosworthy. 520 pages, near-fine, scarce hardback edition. £25.00 GBP

51126 – William Washington, Cavalryman of the Revolution / Haller. 240 pages, near-mint paperback. Biography of this cavalry commander who played pivotal roles in battles such as Cowpens and Guildford Court House. £17.50 GBP

51127 – Charge!: Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars / Digby Smith. Near-fine hardback, 290 pages, illustrated. £7.50 GBP

51128 – Later Roman Empire: (A.D. 354-378) (Penguin Classics) by Ammianus Marcellinus and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill – very good condition paperback. £3.50 GBP

51129 – Ksiega kawalerii polskiej 1914-1947: Rodowody, barwa, bron [ / Rodowody, barwa, bron. Hardback, published 1989, 527 pages. Illustrated with full-color illustrations throughout. Condition very good. £65.00 GBP

51130 – L' Epopee Napoleonienne / Hourtoulle, F.G. Hardback, published 2008, 207 pages. Illustrated with full-color throughout. Condition like new. Small bump to front cover edge. £40.00 GBP

51131 – Rousselot Plates 1) Chevau Legers Lanciers 1811-1815 – 1965 printing. Near-mint, small stamp marked Don Hagger Collection. £18.00 GBP

51132 – Rousselot Plates 2) Carabiniers 1810-1815 – 1965 printing. Near-mint, small stamp marked Don Hagger Collection. £18.00 GBP

51133 – La Grande Armée par Victor Huen / Herscher. Hardback, published 2004, 102 pages. Illustrated with full-color illustrations throughout. Condition new. £30.00 GBP

51134 – Puritan Revolution 1603-1660 / Gardner. Small gilt leatherbound hardback. An attractive edition of a classic. However the interest lies in the fact that it has a bookplate of the Victorian Admiral Sir Wilmot Hawksworth Fawkes, GCB, KCVO. £13.50 GBP

51135 – Fighting Kings of Wessex (Medieval Military Library) / Baker. Near-mint paperback, 300 pages. £10.00 GBP

51135 – Les Uniformes Du Premiere Empire: L' Infanterie / Bucquoy, Cdt. Hardback, published 1979, 223 pages, color illustrations throughout. French text. Good condition, some minor damage to dust jacket and inscription to flyleaf. £50.00 GBP

51136 – La Garde Imperiale / Lachouque, Cmndt Henry. Very good condition, very large format hardback. Very well illustrated in some color. French text. 510 pages. £37.50 GBP

51136 – British Reconnaissance Corps in World War II (Osprey Elite 152) – near mint. £4.00 GBP

51137 – Korean War Aces: No.4 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces) – near mint. £4.00 GBP

51138 – Confederate Cavalry West of the River / Oates, Stephen B. Paperback, 234 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. Condition unread. Small knocks to edge corners. £6.00 GBP

51140 – Belisarius: The Last Roman General / Hughes, Ian. Hardback, 272 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Condition new. Unread. Mint. £20.00 GBP

51142 – Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship / Morrison & Coates. Paperback, 266 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. Condition Looks new. Slight wear to corner of cover. £6.95 GBP

51143 – Bushveldt Carbineers: the War Against the Boers in South Africa and the Breaker Morant Incident / Witton, George. Paperback, published 225 pages. Condition unread. Looks new. £12.95 GBP

51144 – Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage. McWhinney, & Jamieson. Hardback, 209 pages. Condition very good. Some surface wear. £7.00 GBP

51145 – Captain of the 95th (Rifles), an Officer of Wellington's Sharpshooters During the Peninsular… / Leach, Jonathan. Hardback, 250 pages. Condition like new. Near mint. Small knock to corner of cover. £14.25 GBP

51146 – Battle of Maida. 1806: 15 minutes of glory / Hopton, Richard. Hardback, published, 197 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. Condition like new. Unread. Near mint. £9.00 GBP

51147 – Great Siege of Chester / Barratt, John. Paperback, 192 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations Condition unread. Looks new. £7.50 GBP

51148 – Spanish Frontier in North America (Yale Western Americana Series) / Weber, David J. Paperback, published, 579 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. Condition very good. Light surface wear. £15.00 GBP

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