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Armour

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Prospect Books hold a large collection of new and out of print titles

 

(K1) EUROPEAN ARMOUR – CIRCA 1066 TO CIRCA 1700 Claude Blair, Macmillan 1959, 248 pages with 66 photo illustrations and many detail line drawings, pencil annotation to one photo otherwise Good+ in DJ, £24.00

(K5) ARMS AND ARMOUR Frederick Wilkinson, A.& C. Black 1970, quarto, 64 pages with many intext line drawings, Vg in DJ, £6.50

(K6) A HISTORY OF BODY ARMOUR Harlod L. Peterson, Scribner 1968, Quarto, 64 pages with many line drawings in text, Book Good + in Worn DJ, £6.00

(K14) OBSERVATIONS ON THE BODY ARMOUR ANCIENTLY WORN IN ENGLAND Samuel Meyrick, disbound extract from ‘Archaeologia’, from a letter dated 1818, 26 pages, £6.00

(K15) EUROPEAN WEAPONS AND ARMOUR Ewart Oakeshott, Lutterworth Press, 1980, quarto, 288 pages with 24 photo plates and 114 other illustrations, excellent and comprehensive work, Book VG in DJ, £38.00

(K22) EUROPEAN WEAPONS AND ARMOUR Ewart Oakeshott, Boydell, Reissued 2000, 288 pages, with line illustrations by the Author, from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, an account of the story of arms over the period, Book V.G. in V.G.D.J.£25.00

(K24) ARMOUR IN ENGLAND J. Starkie Gardner, Seeley & Co. 1898, quarto, 96 pages with 16 coloured plates and over 80 other illustrations, book good, bound in three quarter green leather £60.00

(K26) UZBROJENIE W POLSCE SREDNIOWIECZNEJ 1350 – 1450 Andrezeja Nadolskiego, Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii Kultury , 1990, 530 pages, with many line drawn illustrations, Text in Polish, Book Good in card covers, ex library, £15.00

(K28) VAPEN INDUSTRIERNA I ARBOGA. UNDER ALDRE VASATID AV Ake Meyerson, Kungliga Liv-Rustkammaren Stockholm 1939, Quarto, 255 uncut pages, with illustrations and line drawings, Book Good + in card covers ex library, £30.00

(K29) ARMS AND ARMOUR IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES Charles Boutell, new edition 1907, 296 pages with many intext illustrations, Good +, £25.00

(K30) IMPERIAL AUSTRIA - TREASURES OF ART, ARMS & ARMOR FROM THE STATE OF STYRIA Peter Krenn & Walter J. Karcheski, Prestel 1993, quarto, 133 pages with excellent colour photo ills., VG in DW, £32.00

(K31) THE HISTORY OF CHIVALRY AND ARMOUR Dr. F. Kottenkamp, Braken Books, 1988, Oblong quarto, 110 pages of text plus 60 full page colour plates of weapons, dress and armour, Book VG in DJ, £20.00

(K32) EUROPEAN ARMOUR J.F. Hayward, H.M.S.O. 1951, 24 pages plus 32 plates in card wraps, G+, £4.50

(K33) ARMS AND ARMOUR – MASTERPIECES BY EUROPEAN CRAFTSMEN FROM THE THIRTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Bruno Thomas, Ortwin Gamber & Hans Schedelmann, Thames and Hudson 1964, folio, 252 pages with 97 full page and some tipped in colour plates of armour and weapons, book Good + in torn DJ, with 1 library stamp, £30.00

(K57) BRITISH & FOREIGN ARMS AND ARMOUR Charles Henry Ashdown, Jack 1909, quarto, 384 pages with 41 photo plates and many intext line drawings, Book covers poor hence £20.00

(K58) BRITISH & FOREIGN ARMS AND ARMOUR Charles Henry Ashdown, Jack 1909, quarto, 384 pages with 41 photo plates and many intext line drawings, Good+, £45.00

(K63) ARMES ET ARMURES. DE CHARLEMAGNE A LOUIS XIV. Paul Martin, Fribourg 1967, 297 pages, with 237 illustrations in colour and black and white, line drawings, text in French, Armour, Book Good + with illustrated boards. £35.00

NEW BOOKS ON ARMOUR

(NK3) ART AND ARMS FLORENCE, CITY OF MEDICI International Arms And Armour Conferences 2003, 21cm x 30cm, Conference proceedings, 148 pages comprising 7 comprehensive articles on Arms and armour, by Jan Puype, David Edge, Christopher Dobson and others, soft covers, NEW PRICE NOW ONLY £15.00

(NK7) AN INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE ARMOUR Ian Bottomley , Royal Armouries, 32 pages in card covers, many colour photographs of pieces from the museums collection, £4.95

(NK8) PETER FINER CATALOGUE 2006 22cm x 31.5cm, 306 pages hardbound, containing details and superb colour photographs of 50 items, armour, firearms, edged weapons and crossbows, an excellent high quality reference, £37.00

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