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8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 6 plates and maps on front and rear paste-downs; navy blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from and institution with its bookplate and markings on front free endpaper, and neat blind stamp on title. Very scarce. NMM II/1 701.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
pp. 244, (16) [Illustrated Playing Card Advertisements]. 12mo. Original full printed wraps. Very slight loss at head and tail of spine. Slight loss at bottom corner of front cover. Half of rear cover separated from spine, with no loss. Still, a very nice copy. Covers all sorts of card games, including: whist; poker; five hundred; bridge; auction bridge; cribbage; sixty-six; bezique; gaigel; pinochle; rum; conquain; euchre; rams; napoleon; monte bank; faro; solitaire; piquet GAMES BOX 1
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome plates (many full-page) throughout; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, ivory endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
6 vols., sm. 8vo., with 5 [of 6] engraved frontispieces (all original tissue guards present), 5 engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), 40 diagrams in the text and 28 large folding tables, endpapers spotted; original blue cloth, gilt backs, uncut, backs rubbed and faded (but all gilt entirely legible), backstrips frayed (without major loss) at heads and tails else a very good, bright, remarkably clean set. Sold from an institution with its tape-marks on covers, bookplate on front paste-downs and small blind stamp on titles. Wanting the frontispiece to volume five. 'A standard contemporary authority for detailed naval events of the period. Although criticised on the grounds of prejudice, still invaluable as a work of reference' (NMM). 'Useful for its minutely detailed play-by-play account' (Albion). This compact but entirely unabridged version is a reissue of the seventh edition of 1886 with considerable additions by Professor York Powell. Albion p.244; NMM 5, 2158; Sandler 1827.
2 vols., 8vo., First English Edition, on laid paper; blue cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in blind, gilt backs, blue tops (faded), a good, firm, clean set. Sold from an institution with the usual markings
Cassel Keegan 1999, In-4 reliure toile éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 223 pages. Importante iconographie. Index. Trés bon état. Texte en anglais
vi p., 87 l. 95 pl. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, top of spine worn
pp. 624 + Plus frontis, half title and Twenty portraits. Inked ownership of Joseph Macdowell. Small 4to. Original full gold decorated red buckram binding. Spine repaired. FRENG 5
342 p. Light age stain. Lacks fly leaves. Stippled edges. 24mo. 140 mm. Disbound. Needs to be resewn. An epic poem in blank verse which begins with Napoleon's attack on Russia; and ends with his departure for Elba. In 1833, St. Clairsville contained a brick courthouse and jail, five houses of worship, seventeen or eighteen mercantile stores, several groceries, a drug store, a book store, five taverns, three printing offices, four or five physicians, and fourteen or fifteen lawyers, and a large number of mechanics' shops. S&S/AI 18967. AI BX 5
246 pages. Index. "It is my object in this book to display... the battle between the President of the United States and the Masters of Money, so that my reader may be able to watch the struggle for himself, and, as I hope, take part in the struggle as a good citizen." - from Preface. Bright gilt lettering on backstrip. Blue boards. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper. Bit of writing inside front board else unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 12 fine chromolithographed pates showing uniforms (all original tissue guards present), 2 portraits in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and several monochrome illustrations in the text; original black diced cloth, upper board with elaborate gilt frame border enclosing crest and motto blocked in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, corners bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. With an armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Decent copy of one of the best illustrated and most lavishly bound cavalry histories of the period; Norie's plates are particularly fine. Includes detailed account of the regiment's service in the Peninsular and at Waterloo. A remainder issue was published without plates. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p 68; White, p.20.
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition thus, with 2 fine portrait frontispieces in heliogravure (original tissue guards present) and 9 maps (3 folding), some light and inoffensive age-staining; handsomely bound in red half morocco, marbled boards, backs with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, small bookplate scars on front paste-downs, an elegant and most attractive copy. Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin [later Baron] de Marbot (1782-1854) fought in virtually every battle of the Napoleonic Wars and was wounded no fewer than ten times. 'Not overly endowed with modesty, he is the original of Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard' (Sutcliffe). His famous Memoirs were first published in France in 1891 and in English in the following year. See Sandler 2231.
283 pages. Black cloth covers; blind stamped title and coat of arms on front cover, gilt title on spine. Index. 7 illustrations, one map of Italy in 1821 and two sketch-maps in text. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Light wear to top/base of spine, corners a little bumped.
8vo., Second and Best UK Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 11 plates and 21 maps and battle plans on japon, endpapers faintly browned; original navy ribbed cloth gilt, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers very lightly rubbed at extremities, an unusually bright, crisp, clean copy. First published in two volumes in 1897. The revised edition recasts and amplifies the original discussion of Nelson's action towards the Neapolitan Republicans in 1799. New material is included connected with the separation of Nelson and his wife. Mahan also expands some points, most importantly the reasons for withholding the medals at Copenhagen. Hattendorf, A6d; NMM II/1 975. See also Sandler 2198 (recording the first edition).
Two volumes. Engraved frontis. Double column. Tall 12mo. 220 mm. Original full gold gilt decorated full leather bindings, slightly worn. Volume II front joint fragile. Nice set. To supplement information gleaned from reading and from correspondence with military and political figures, Scott made a research trip to London in October 1826, where the government had granted him free access to archives dealing with Napoleon's exile in St. Helena. Later in the same month he visited Paris to speak with former colleagues of Napoleon, and was lionized by the social and literary world. Among Scott's influential network of correspondents in both the British and French governments was the Duke of Wellington himself who provided a first-hand account of Napoleon's Russian Campaign. This is a very early American edition of Scott's massive work. FRENG 5
Two volumes. Engraved frontis, foxed. XLib stamp on title pages and elsewhere. Library bookplate. Foxed. Age stained. Double column. Tall 12mo. Original full leather binding. Boards detached. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FRENG 3
pp. (2), 473, (6)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus engraved portrait frontis. Top edge gold. XLib stamps on title page and elsewhere. XLib bookplate. Inked ownership of M. C. Gifford. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly worn. FRENG 1 **.
ONLY Volume One of Two. pp. xii, 401, (12)[Publisher's catalogue] + half title, frontis and folding maps and views. Numerous text engravings. XLib. Stamp on half title and elsewhere. Library bookplate. Text clean. Folding maps and views brown but not brittle. Tall 8vo. Original full gold decorated brown cloth binding, slightly worn. FRENG 1
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and facsimile endpapers; original red cloth, gilt back, red top, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Wheeler served with the 51st in the Walcheren Expedition, the Peninsula and Waterloo. Sandler 3456.
8vo., First UK Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Costain relates the relationship between Napoleon and 'Betsee' [Betsy Balcombe] in novel form. Dustwrapper artwork by Barbara Walton. The US edition was published in the previous year. Scarce in this condition.
8vo., First Edition, title lightly browned at outer margin, neat signature on front free endpaper; diced blue cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, top mildly spotted else a very good, bright copy. Detailed account of Napoleon's rise from military leader to Emperor. VERY SCARCE. Not recorded by Sandler.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 2 full-page maps in the text and a folding map; original series binding of decorative white buckram gilt, navy blue buckram back gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. XCVI. Very scarce.Scarce, especially in this condition.
Pages 919- 950. Features: Cover photo of magnificent jewel encrusted silver crown found in mysterious Royal tomb; Four pages of photos and text describe treasure from intact tombs of mysterious Nubian kings; One-page photo portrait of the Austrian Chancellor ("Little Napoleon") of his country, Dr. Dollfuss, sworn enemy of Nazis, in a London garden; photos of personalities of the week include Austrian diplomat Dr. Wasserbach, Miss Freya Stark, Dr. Habicht (Nazi state inspector for Austria), Sir Edward Grigg, Sir A. W. Renton, Prof. Raymond Moley, Sir Ernest Moir, and King Feisal of Iraq with King George in London; Two pages of illustrations explain modern air war training; Two pages of photos of Corpus Christi procession around the little island of Frauen-Insel, in the Chiemsee, some 40 miles from Munich; Two pages of text and photos describe South Africa's new London headquarters; Article on Brachiopids; Illustrated article explains the light of the sun at midnight; Photos of prize horses "Brown Jack" and "Limelight; Photo of the Sino-Japanese Armistice, Lieut. Gen. Nishi accepting the armistice proposals from a Chinese envoy; One-page ad for the new Vauxhall Light Six; and more. Centre page loose but present. Outer advertising pages not included. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
