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Auction: 8016 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 522

LAURIE, Lt.-Col. G. BRENTON. History of the Royal Irish Rifles. London, 1914. Thick quarto, frontispiece, xx, 540 pages; 10 coloured plates, 24 illustrations, 15 maps. De-luxe edition of only 82 printed with a list of those to whom the copies were issued. Full decorated green and black leather, gilt, raised bands, title label, silk endpapers, all page-edges gilt. A superb copy of a rare work. FALLS, CYRIL. The History of the First Seven Battalions. The Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War Vol. II. Aldershot, 1925. Quarto, xi, 188 pages; 3 illustrations, 19 colour maps and sketches. Original decorated green cloth, gilt, Minimal wear, a little rubbed. Rare. (2) Estimate £ 350-400

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£500