A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages.
OMAN, (Charles)
The Middle Ages from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century. Twenty-four plates, maps and plans. Some foxing to the fore-edge and endpapers, otherwise very good in the original plum cloth. xvi, 668pp.Methuen & Co., 1898
A nice copy with the ownership inscription of Aubrey Herbert to the front free endpaper and a number of pencilled markings and marginalia in his hand.
Orientalist, advocate of an independent Albania, MP for Yeovil, soldier and agent. Herbert is a fascinating figure and served as the model for Sandy Arbuthnot, hero of Buchan's Greenmantle
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