B J Videon (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the uniforms of the Australian Colonies, with a letter from Ross Campbell. First edition. Illustrated with twelve colour plates. Collated complete. A detailed account and study of the different uniforms of the Australian Colonies, intended to acknowledge and preserve Australian military dress and accoutrements through history. Written by Alfred N. Festberg, a German-born military historian who moved to Great Britain to escape the Nazi regime, and Barry John Videon, an Australian military historian and member of the Military Historical Society (UK), he is also a founding member of the Military Historical Society for Australia. With a letter sent from the desk of a Ross Campbell on 16th May 1974 to Major General Sir Rohan Delacombe, a senior British Army officer who, after retiring from the army, became the last British-born Governor of Victoria, Australia. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with a mark to the front board. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

Melbourne: Hill of Content, (1971). Folio. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket (rubbed). (x, 58pp.). With title-vign. and 12 full-page col. plates. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover.