Adventures And Recollections Of Colonel Landmann, Late of The Corps Of Royal Engineers. In Two Volumes. Signed.

LANDMANN, Colonel:

Published by London, Colburn and Co., 1852 1st

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Two Volumes. Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. In textured pink cloth covers, with blind embossed decoration to boards and spines, with gilt spine lettering. Yellow endpapers with adverts. In very good condition. Cloth are quite faded, on spines and around boards. Small splits to cloth at ends of spine on vol.1. Inner hinges between endpapers cracked, with ?invisible? tape reinforcements. Some minor marks to endpapers else bright. Authors neat inscriptions to top edges of title pages in both volumes; ?To Christian Hope Hayward, from his affectionate brother, The Author, 1852.? Some minor tanning to pages, some occasional minor handling marks else pages clean and tight. Else very good clean and tight copies. 2 vols: 328 & 347pp. With 16 & 24pp catalogues at rears. Colonel George Thomas Landmann (1779 ? 27 August 1854) was an English military and civil engineer. He served with the Royal Engineers in Canada, Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain and Ireland. Following his retirement from the army, he worked as a civil engineer and was engineer of the London and Greenwich Railway, the world's first suburban passenger railway.

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• Title: Adventures And Recollections Of Colonel Landmann, Late of The Corps Of Royal Engineers. In Two Volumes. Signed.
• Publisher: London, Colburn and Co., 1852 1st
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