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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
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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
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[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
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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
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[LENNOX (Willam Pitt)] Comp.
Memoir of Charles Gordon Lennox, Fifth Duke of Richmond, K.G., P.C.
1st Ed., xi+348pp., portrait frontis. Chapman & Hall.
1862
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Lennox (1781-1860) when known as Earl of March served on Wellington's staff in the Peninsular War, during which time he joined the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regt. as a volunteer & accompanied the regiment's advance storming party on the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo. He formally joined the 52nd Foot in 1813 & commanded a company at the Battle of Orthes, 1814, where he was severely wounded; the musket-ball in his chest was never removed. During the Battle of Waterloo he was ADC to the Prince of Orange & following the latter's wounding, served as ADC to Wellington. Detailed memoirs of his life based on various correspondence & family sources. His military career is detailed in around 40pp., the rest of the book (apart from his early life & education) being devoted to his work as a landowner, &c. Orig. red cloth, blindstamped & gilt, rebacked, somewhat rubbed/worn, sound & VG thus. See illustration on our website.
£125
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ADDISON (Henry R., FSA, late 2nd Dragoon Guards)
A Rough Sketch of the Field of Waterloo.
1st Ed., 179pp., fldg. state of Wellington's Staff at Waterloo, fldg. chromo. map (with dispositions of the forces). Brussels: The Belgian Company of Booksellers, Hauman & Co.
1839
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A description of the battle & the various features of the battlefield designed for the use of visitors. Includes tables of regiments present & their casualties, list of officers killed or wounded, list of Wellington's Staff (on the fldg. table, noting their appointment). Text, table & map somewhat heavily foxed, generally VG, bound in later half calf, raised bands to sp. with claret leather lettering label, marbled paper covd. boards, VG thus. A quite valuable near contemp. description with excellent map. Rare. See illustration on our website.
£220
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ALGER (John Goldworth)
Napoleon's British Visitors & Captives 1801-1815.
1st Ed., viii+342pp. Constable.
1904
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An account of various interested visitor's to "The Corsican's" court, the experiences of English PoWs during the period, &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, near fine with armorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox. See illustration on our website.
£45
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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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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., 6 plates, fldg. map. Longman et al.
1809.
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Rare original edition of the classic account of Corunna campaign. Contemp. full tree calf, sympathetically rebacked in calf with red leather lettering label. VG thus. See illustrations on our website.
£165
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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