A collection of books primarily focused on military history and landscape photography. The most prominent volume is a large-format hardcover titled Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness, edited by Andrea G. Stillman and published by Little, Brown and Company, featuring a photographic front cover depicting a mountain landscape. The lot includes several octavo-sized titles: Commanding Presence: Wellington in the Peninsula 1808-1814, Logistics – Strategy – Survival by Ian Robertson, published by Spellmount in a hardcover binding with a dust jacket; Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War by Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch, a softcover edition from Free Press; Guthrie’s War: A Surgeon of the Peninsula and Waterloo by Michael Crumplin, published by Pen & Sword as a hardcover with a dust jacket; and The Flyers by Brian Bridgeman, a softcover aviation history. Also present is a slim white volume titled The Last Stand. The books feature various publishing imprints and trade dress consistent with late 20th and early 21st-century military and art historical publications.
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