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AN OFFICER [PORTER (Robert Ker)]
Letters from Portugal & Spain, written during the March of the British Troops under Sir John Moore.
With a Map of the Route & Appropriate Engravings [from drawings by the author]. 1st Ed., xvi+320pp., 7 plates, fldg. map. Longman et al.
1809.
#56806
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Rare original edition of the classic account of Corunna campaign. Contemp. qtr. leather, gilt, marbled paper covd. boards, somewhat rubbed & chipped at edges, with a little damage to the marbled sides; frontis. & one other plate have some hand-colouring of no merit. See illustrations on our website.
£225
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BARRES (M.) Ed.
Memoirs of a Napoleonic Officer, Jean-Baptiste Barres.
1st Eng. Ed., 316pp. A&U.
1925
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Campaigns in Prussia, Peninsular War &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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BECKE (Major A.F.)
Napoleon & Waterloo: The Emperor's campaign with the armee du Nord 1815.
Revised Ed., xv+320pp., 5 fldg. & 6 sketch maps. Kegan Paul.
1936
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Acclaimed work. Somewhat sunned o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£15
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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
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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 servivce 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. & front panel stained, o/w VG. See illustrations on our website.
£65
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DUNFERMLINE (James, Lord)
Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby K.B. 1793-1801: A Memoir by His Son.
1st Ed., vii+328pp. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas.
1861
#57225
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Flanders 1793; West Indies then Helder expedition, Cadiz & the successful Egypt campaign in 1801 when he was mortally wounded at Aboukir. Orig. green cloth, gilt, cloth lifting a little o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£95
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GWYNN (Stephen) Ed.
A Brotherhood of Heroes: Being Memorials of Charles, George & William Napier.
1st Ed., viii+266pp., 4 col. plates. Mowbray.
1910
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Material largely adapted from other works, but a very scarce & useful work on the Napiers in the peninsular, India &c. Orig. red cloth, gilt, sp. sunned & sl. chipped o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£30
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JAMES (Lt.-Col. W.H., RE [Retd.])
The Campaign of 1815 Chiefly in Flanders.
1st Ed., xi+340pp., 8 maps/plans (4 fldg., one in end-pocket). Blackwood.
1908
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Orig. red cloth, gilt, little spotted, sp. sunned, pocket map torn but complete, o/w VG & very scarce original edition of a standard work. See illustration on our website.
£50
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KENNEDY (Gen. Sir James S., KCB)
Notes on the Battle of Waterloo.
1st Ed., iv+199pp., fldg. map, several plans. Murray.
1865
#52310
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Detailed description & notes on the battle by a participant, with an autobiographical memoir inc. his life & services (Peninsula War at Badajoz &c., on QMG Staff with Picton's 3rd Div. at Waterloo) & his Plan for the Defence of Canada. Orig. red cloth, gilt, spine split, fldg. map torn (but complete). Scarce. See illustration on our website.
£60
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KNOWLES (Sir Lees, Bart.)
The War in the Peninsula: Some Letters of Lieutenant Robert Knowles, of the 7th, or Royal Fusiliers, a Lancashire Officer.
2nd Ed., 92pp., frontis., 2 plates, 2 fldg. maps. & one other. Bolton: Tillotson & Son.
1913
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Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca & Vittoria; Killed in Action in the Pyrenees, July 1813. Orig. cloth, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£85
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MOORE SMITH (G.C.) Ed. & Comp.
The Autobiography of Lt.-Gen. Sir Harry Smith 1897-1819.
1st single volume Ed., xvi+333pp., portrait frontis., maps. Murray.
1910
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Distinguished rifleman & general with much detail on a wealth of campaigns from Peninsula (with the 95th Rifles) & New Orleans to the Sikh & Kaffir Wars. Orig. red cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.
£30
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