MacKenzie, Charlotte: Psychiatry for the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum. London: Routledge, 1992. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 234, inc. plates, figures and tables. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use with mild creasing to jacket edges: still very good. Brief neat pencil annotation to a rear blank. In the Wellcome Institute series in the History of Medicine. Ref: 53935
Mallinson, Allan: 1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War. London: Bantham Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 503 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good. Ref: 54239
Massie, Robert K.: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. London: Head of Zeus Ltd, 2012. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 625 + plates. Maps. Hardback: cream cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A little foxing towards edges, more to endpapers, light signs of use, otherwise very good. Ref: 54241
Mellyn, Elizabeth W.: Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 290. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a touch only of shelf-wear, almost as new. Ref: 53625
Mellyn, Elizabeth W.: Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 290. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, light bump to one top corner with 2cm closed tear to covering jacket and one other small closed tear, otherwise a touch only of shelf-wear. Ref: 54288
[Military History] Flanders Delineated or, a view of the Austrian and French Netherlands. [...] Reading: printed and sold by J. Newbery and C. Micklewright, [...] 1745 FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. [8], 310, [2] (last leaf with directions to the binder) + 3 engraved, hand-coloured folding maps of Flanders, Germany and northern Italy, and 1 plate with fortifications and gunnery. Uniform light age browning, the odd very minor marginal spot, upper edge a little dust-stained. Contemporary polished calf, double gilt ruled, raised bands, spine gilt, gilt-lettered red morocco label, recently and well rebacked with boards and (slightly bumped) corners refurbished. Late 18th-century armorial bookplate of Capt. Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake. A good, clean copy of the first edition of this scarce, beautifully illustrated work on military history. It is a detailed survey of the ongoing war for the Austrian Succession (1740-8), 'of great Use to all who are willing to have a clear idea of the Operations of the several Armies'. The first part, by an anonymous 'Officer of the Allied Army now in Flanders', comprises a geographical survey and a military history of the Austrian and French Netherlands, prefaced by a short history of the Low Countries. The second part, similarly anonymous, is a brief account of the topography and history of Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia and Austria, and an account of the 'Pragmatic Sanction' which started the war against Germany. At rear is a military dictionary, as well as a page of instructions to the binder. In addition to three detailed maps of Flanders, Germany and northern Italy, it features an engraved plate with beautifully delineated samples of fortifications and gunnery. The work is dedicated to Field Marshal George Wade (1673-1748), who served in all the major European wars from the late 1680s to the mid-18th century. He was also 'Commander in Chief of His Majesty's forces, castles, forts and barracks in North Britain', by which he oversaw the construction of hundreds of miles of military roads and 30 military bridges in Scotland. Capt. Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt (1749-1810), MP for Amersham (1795-1810) and Sheriff of Glamorganshire (1786-7). ESTC T140942. ESTC lists only 6 copies (3 in the UK and 3 in the US). Ref: 53648show full image..
Moorehead, Alan: (Hastings, Max, intro.:) Gallipoli. London: Aurum Press, 2015. First edition thus, second impression. 8vo., pp. xvi, 384. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. First published in 1956 by Hamish Hamilton, and then by Aurum Press in 2007. Now in a new edition with Introduction by Sir Max Hastings. Ref: 54260
Moorehead, Caroline: Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France. London: Chatto & Windus, 2014 First edition. 8vo., pp. 374. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, slightly creased on top edge, light shelf-wear, still very good. Ref: 54261
Mortensen, Otto: Jens Olsen's Clock: A Technical Description. Copenhagen: Technological Institute, 1957. First English edition. Folio, pp. 157. Numerous illustrations. Hardback: white cloth-backed blue patterned cloth boards, blue-lettered to spine, two corners slightly bumped, other than a hint of dust to edges book and contents unblemished, very good. White dust-jacket, now somewhat grubby with closed tear to one corner, a little fraying to the others and creasing to edges, still good overall. Translated from and published simultaneously in Danish. A detailed description of a complex astronomical clock, now situated in Copenhagen Town Hall, completed posthumously between 1944 and 1955 (Jens Olsen died in 1945). Ref: 53961show full image..
Mousnier, Roland: (Spencer, Joan, trans.:) The Assassination of Henry IV. The Tyrannicide Problem and the Consolidation of the French Absolutee Monarchy in the Early Sevebteenth Century. London: Faber and Faber, 1973. First edition in English. 8vo., pp. 428 + plates. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, a small cross in blue pen over price on front flap, very light creasing to edges, very good. First published in French in 1964. Ref: 53573
