Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Manual of Seamanship.
By Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Two Volumes, published by H.M.S.O., London, 1932, 446pp. and 357pp., with numerous charts, diagrams, and photographic plates, both volumes with index, hardbound, good condition

Uniform Regulations of Officers of the Fleet.
Admiralty, published by H.M.S.O. 1924, 28pp., together with 18 plates, hardbound; together with five supplementary Amendment sheets, published 1926-31; two copies of the complete revised edition for 1937, one hardbound, the other with paper covers; and an Amendment sheet published in May 1939, the two bound copies annotated with amendments, generally good condition

Regulations for the Royal Naval Reserve (Men).
Admiralty and Board of Trade, published by H.M.S.O. 1928, 133pp., with index, hardbound; together with a similar revised edition for 1933; and various Orders in Council regarding the Mercantile Marine, good condition

Dress Regulations for Officers of the Royal Air Force.
Air Ministry, published by H.M.S.O. 1929, 26pp., together with 21 plates, hardbound; together with three supplementary Amendment sheets, published 1930-35; and a copy of the complete revised edition for 1939, with paper covers; a copy of King’s Regulations and Air Council Instructions for the Royal Air Force 1944, with appendices and index, hardbound; and a copy of Regulations for the Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service 1929, hardbound, good condition (lot) £80-£100

Sold with various other pamphlets and publications, including ‘Tailor and Cutter’; ‘Service Uniforms’; ‘Notes on the Uniform of Naval Officers’; ‘Rig of the Day 1805-1955’; ‘The Dress of the British Sailor’; ‘The Dress of Naval Officer’; and ‘The Royal Navy 1790-1970’, the last part of the Osprey Men-at-Arms series.