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The Dickson Manuscripts: Being Diaries, Letters, Maps, Account Books, With Various Other Papers of the Late Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson, GCB, KCH, KTS, Royal Artillery. Facsimile reprint, 5 Vols., approx. 1000pp. in all, several fldg. maps. Cambridge: Ken Trotman. 1987-1991  #65027
[HLMainPic] Complete series of Dickson's superlative detailed records of the Royal Artillery during the campaigns in the Peninsular, 1809-1813. Reprinted by Ken Trotman in a good quality, limited & numbered edition of 200 copies, of which this is copy no. 12. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £100
[FITZMAURICE (Gerald)] Biographical Sketch of Major General John Fitzmaurice K.H. Written for private circulation. 1908. The Centenary of the Formation of the 95th Rifle Corps now The Rifle Brigade. 1st Ed., 102pp., portrait frontis., fldg. map. Anghiari (Italy), Tiber Printing Press. 1908  #66220
[HLMainPic] John George Fitzmaurice served with the 3rd Bn. 95th Rifles in the Peninsular, was present at numerous engagements & had his leg broken at Badajoz. Was also at Waterloo with the 1st Bn. where he was again wounded. Includes some 45pp. relating to his services in the Peninsular, including transcriptions of various letters, & a short account of his participation at Waterloo. Not particularly revealing but a very rare memoir. Just one copy on Library Hub (formerly COPAC), at Oxford University, is recorded by Victor Sutcliffe (Sandler Collection) but not Brett-James (Life in Wellington's Army bibliography). Orig. black & green cloth, sp. panel, corners & eps sympathetically renewed, VG thus, presumably printed in a very small edition & this copy with compiler's inscription: "To Nina Clifford great great granddaughter of John of Duagh is presented by the author, Gerald Fitzmaurice great grandson of John of Duagh this memoir of John Fitzmaurice grandson of John of Duagh. March 1914." With bound-in later ink notes re family history & recording the death of Nina Clifford & subsequent presentation of this copy to Col. L. Fitzmaurice, & another, later, note on family history. See illustrations on our website.   £265
BATTY (Capt. Robert) Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army, in the Western Pyrenees & South of France, in the Years 1813-1814, under FM The Duke of Wellington. Facsimile reprint of 1823 1st Ed., xx+185pp., plates, fldg. hand-coloured map. Ken Trotman. 1983  #65079
[HLMainPic] No. 40 of limited edition of 250 copies, high quality facsimile edition of classic work on later stages of the war in the Peninsula. VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £50
BOUTFLOWER (Charles) The Journal of an Army Surgeon during the Peninsular War. 1st Ed., 182pp., 4to. Manchester: Privately printed for the author's family by the Refuge Printing Dept., Strangeways. 1912  #65038
[HLMainPic] Daily journal of Surgeon to the 40th Ft. in the Peninsula 1809-13. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. It is believed that 100 copies only were printed. See illustration on our website.   £85
CANNON (Richard) Historical Record of the 53rd or The Shropshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1755 & of its subsequent services to 1848. 1st Ed., xxxv+69pp., 3 col. plates. Parker. 1849  #57449
[HLMainPic] Useful early records inc. 1st Bn. in American War of Independence, Low Countries, West Indies, Mahratta Wars &c., 2nd Bn. raised in 1803 & served in the Peninsular War 1809-14 inc. (with much interesting detail). Orig. red cloth, gilt, nice clean copy, VG. See illustration on our website.   £65
CLERK (Rev. Archibald) Memoir of Colonel John Cameron, Fassiefern, K.T.S., Lieutenant-Colonel in the Gordon Highlanders, or 92d Regiment of Foot. 1st Ed., [iii]+108pp., 4to, tinted litho. portrait frontis., 2 other tinted litho. plates (monument & family home). Printed for Sir Duncan Campbell, Bart., of Fassiefern, by Thomas Murray & Son, Glasgow, For Private Circulation. 1858.  #65082
[HLMainPic] Memoir of John Cameron, who was commissioned in the Cameronians in 1793; transferred to the 93rd then to the 92nd as a Captain in 1794; served in Holland, Egypt, Walcheren Expedition then in the Peninsula from 1810-13, in various actions with Hill's 3rd Division; then in the Waterloo campaign, where he was killed in action leading his regiment at Quatre Bras. Detailed account of his services & campaigns, with some extracts from his letters. Near contemp. half morocco gilt sp. with raised bands & lettering labels, USC bookplate (presented by Sir Duncan Cameron, Bart., 1858). Front joint partially split o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
COOPER (John Spencer. Late Sgt. in the 7th R. Fusiliers) Rough Notes of Seven Campaigns in Portugal, Spain, France & America during the Years 1809-10-11-12-13-14-15. 2nd Ed., vii+160pp. Carlisle: George Coward. 1914  #65032
[HLMainPic] Rare locally printed memoir of Peninsular War (inc. Talavera, Almeida, Bussaco, Albuhera, Pyrenees &c.) & New Orleans 1815, containing appealing & atmospheric reminiscences of army life & campaigns. Orig. red cloth, gilt, with college bookplate to ffep, VG thus. The original edition of 1869 was printed by the same Carlisle printer (& is very rare): this edition includes "a few small amendments in regard to the numbering of chapters & spelling of names," brief notes on the author &, more significantly, a portrait frontis. of him in later life wearing his Peninsula Medal. See illustration on our website.   £95
CRAUFURD (Rev. Alexander H.) General Craufurd & His Light Division. With Many Anecdotes, a Paper & Letters by Sir John Moore...&c. 1st Ed., xiv+298pp., portrait frontis., facsim. letter. Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh. nd 1891  #65000
[HLMainPic] Life & services of Maj.-Gen. Robert Craufurd until mortally wounded at Ciudad Rodrigo in 1812, utilising such private correspondence &c. as was available. Orig. rifle green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £120
CROSTHWAITE (J. Fisher, Hon. Maj., 1st Cumberland Rifle Vols.) Brief Memoir of Major-Gen. Sir John Geo. Woodford K.C.B., K.C.H. 1st Ed., [iii]+63+xiipp., real photo. portrait frontis., 6 plates. London: Kent & Co., Keswick: M. Bailey & T. Mayson, & Kendall: T. Wilson (printed by the last named of the three joint publishers). 1881  #65031
[HLMainPic] A paper read to the Keswick Literary & Scientific Society on March 29th, 1880 (it must have been a long but interesting evening) containing an account of Woodford's immediate antecedents & life. He was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in 1800 & saw active service at the Siege of Copenhagen in 1807, then in the Peninsula 1808-14 (DAQMG & ADC to Moore at Corunna, when he had his horse shot under him, & AQMG under Wellington at battles of Nive, Nivelle &c., afterward in the Waterloo campaign). Includes some extracts from his letters written during these campaigns & concludes with an autobiographical memorandum by his elder brother, Gen. Sir Alexander Woodford, & various other documents. Not in Sutcliffe (Sandler Collection catalogue). Orig. red red cloth, gilt, sp. sunned, VG. See illustrations on our website.   £75
FRASER (Edward) & CARR-LAUGHTON (L.G.) The Royal Marine Artillery 1804-1923. Volume II: 1859-1923. 1st Ed., xv+[540]pp., 56 plates, 22 maps. RUSI. 1930  #65950
[HLMainPic] Magnificent detailed record of the RMA ashore & afloat. This volume including New Zealand, Zulu 1879, Egypt 1882, China, Boer War &c., but largely devoted to the Great War 1914-18 (inc. Gallipoli, Western Front, East & German South-West African campaigns). Roll of Hon., awards &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little rubbed, VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.   £145

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