Vendeur : Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. First Edition. Some rubbing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 303, [1 (blank)] pages + plates. Map of The Congo on front endpaper. "Genealogical Table" of mercenaries on rear endpaper. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. "All mercenary history up to and including the present day can be traced back to the Free Companies that infested feudal France. Taking this period as his starting point, Mr Mockler goes on to discuss the condottieri of Renaissance Italy and a whole nation of mercenaries - the Swiss. His examples also include an intriguing account of the British Government's clumsy manoeuvres to hre mercenaries in Europe for the suppression of the rebellious American colonists, and an attempt to unravel the web of romance shrouding the reality of the French Foreign Legion." - from dust-jacket blurb.; 8vo. N° de réf. du vendeur 24625
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Vendeur : Book Folk, Buxton, DERBY, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First U.K. Edition. 299pp. Maps on front endpapers, geneaology at back. Illustrated with b/w photography. Brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket unclipped. A very scarce book in nice condition. Binding sound. Clean content. No inscriptions. N° de réf. du vendeur BF1020
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Vendeur : Eaglestones, Oudtshoorn, Afrique du sud
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair - Shelf Bumped. First Thus. 'Seditious unfaithful disobedient destroyers of all places and countries whither they are drawn on being held by no other bond than their own commodity' was how Sir Walter Raleigh described them our hundred years ago. ---- 303 pages including b/w photographs. A child has scribbled with green crayon on some of the pages. Entirely readable, tight copy. Size: Approx 5½ " Wide and 8½ " Tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 001418
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