Beatson Major General (22 results)

Condition: New. SB 224pp 2020 N&MP Reprint of 1931 Original Edition Following the repulse of the last French offensive in 1813, Wellington began to take the fight into France; what faced him and his men was an unenviable position to attack: in the east stood the formidable Pyrenees mountains, bristling with redoubts and French troops; in the west, the difficult tidal estuaries. It would be a tough nut to crack, but Wellingtonâs army was experienced, blooded and the momentum that had carried them forward all the way from the borders of Portugal should be enough. On the French side, Marshal Soult had problems aplenty of his own, he was ordered to stage his defence as close to the Spanish border as possible and the troops themselves were outnumbered by the Allied army. He chose to defend the mountain passes that he had used to attack the Allies earlier in the year with the bulk of his men, relying on the difficulty of a river crossing to ensure his safety to the West.Wellington prepared meticulously for his assault, opted for the element of surprise by deciding to assault across the Bidassoa estuary. Sending troops to hold the attention of the French inland, his rugged peninsular veterans cross the Bidassoa with ease pushed on into France. It was to be the second time Soult was levered from a river line by Wellington and, as illustrated by this masterful piece of generalship and co-ordinated planning, it would not be the last before Napoleon was to abdicate.

Condition: New. SB 370pp 2020 N&MP Reprint of 1931 Original Edition After the glorious victory of Vittoria, Wellington followed the retreating French army to the very borders of France itself. The campaign in south-west France in late 1813 and early 1814 was the final campaign of the Peninsular War. An allied army of British, Portuguese and Spanish soldiers under the command of Wellington fought a string of battles against French forces under the command of the able Soult, from the Iberian Peninsula across the Pyrenees and into south-west France ending with the capture of Toulouse and the besieging of Bayonne.

Condition: New. SB 288pp + Illustrations 2017 N&MP Reprint of 1925 Original Edition Originally published in 1925, this is a volume in the authorâs multi-volume study of Wellingtonâs life and campaigns. The book deals with the final phase of the Peninsular War when the Iron Duke chased the fleeing French across the Pyrenees into France itself, defeating them in the Battle of Orthez, and crossing the River Gaves. Illustrated with early 20th century photographs of the battlefields and significant sites, the book recounts Welllingtonâs campaign plans and includes his battlefield orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 288pp, 13 b/w illustrations. Light wear to the ends of the spine, light foxing of the title page, otherwise a very nice copy.

The Crossing of the Gaves and the Battle of Orthez Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pp. (1-4) 5-288 incl. index, illustrated by b&w photographs. Facsimile reprint of 1925 first edition, as-new condition, with like d.w. (now protected).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. red boards with titles to spine, darkened boards, light bumping to spine ends, spotting and dust marks on the page ends, frontispiece, 288pp, pages clean and VG condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1924 first edition hardcover in good condition. Owner's name and a plate on inside cover. Some foxing to page edges and a little to prelims. Pages are otherwise clean, binding is tight and even. The blue cloth boards have a mark to the front, a tiny mark to the spine and a little fading to the spine. Otherwise just minor shelf wear. Overall a neat and tidy good+ copy (please see photos). Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in rebound in blue cloth with bright and vivid gilt titles to spine.Binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.New cream endpapers.There are NO former names present.Illusdtrated with 11 plates with the book lacking the 2 frontispiece plates.The copy was acquired from a very impressive private collection of books on The Crimea,Napoleon,Wellington and The First World War,8vo 288pp First Edition [1925].

Condition: Good. Title: Wellington, Crossing of the Gaves & the Battle of OrthezAuthor: Major General F C BeatsonPublisher: Heath Cranton LimitedPublication date/edition: 1925Binding: HardbackIllustrated: Half-tone plates. Plate facing page 250 detachedPages: 288 Description / Condition: Wear, discolouration, grub, scuff and stain marks to boards, bumps to corners, fading to spine. Foxing to fore-edge, browning to endpapers and page edges, shipped from the UK Please see pictures for further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Inventory No: 46254. For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Inventory No: 46255. For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. William Daniell (illustrator). First Edition. Map; 6 plates 'Engraved by Mr. William Daniell, from the Drawings of Samuel Davis Esq'; Contemporary ownership inscription "Lieut Cole Kinnaird, Comandant St. H. A. 12th Octr 1818" with his notes to rear free end-paper and 4 pages of text; Leather-Bound Hardback: half brown calf on marbled boards, spine panelled with raised bands, black leather lettering-piece; Some wear to leather, i section of spine damaged, a little foxing, vg+.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). Two smart volumes on the campaigns of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington during the Napoleonic Wars. Two volumes. This set contains: The Campaign of Waterloo, 1987. With numerous maps and plans throughout. Published for the first time as a separate volume, this work provides a complete account of the campaign at Waterloo, the climactic battle of the Napoleonic Wars, abstracted from Fortescue's monumental History of the British Army. Written by Sir John William Fortescue, a British military historian who was a historian of the British Army and served as Royal Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle. With Wellington in the Pyrenees, 1993. Later printing. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-nine images across fifteen plates, and eight plans to the rear. Collated complete. The classic history of the Battle of the Pyrenees, one crucial week in the six-year-long campaign to relieve Spain of French occupation and rule. Written by Major-General Finlay Cochrane Beatson, a British Army officer known for his service in South Africa and as an instructor at the Staff College. He also authored several books on military history. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 288pp including index. Red cloth boards with black titles to spine. Ownership signature to fep. Lightly bumped at extremities and lightly foxed. Otherwise a very nice tight and authentically aged copy.

Condition: New. Softback 3 Volumes, 882pp in total N&MP Reprint of Original Editions Major-General F.C.Beatson CB was born in 1855 and joined the army in 1873. After a period of regimental soldiering he served as an instructor and Professor at the Staff College from 1889-1898. One of his more well-known pupils from that period was Douglas Haig. He served in South Africa 1899-1902 with his regiment and on the Staff, being wounded twice, mentioned in despatches and created a CB. He served as Deputy Adjutant-General in India, 1906-1910 and Director, Personal Services, War Office, August 1914-March 1916. The âBidassoa and Nivelleâ was his thrid and last book, appearing in 1931. General Beatson died in 1933.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Collation pp. xiv, 163. 23.5cm x 14.5cm. 4 engraved plates. 1st edition 1820. Original paper-covered boards, new spine. Extremities rubbed, pages uncut. Occasional slight foxing, pencil notes on rear pastedown.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the Duke of Wellington and the Battles of Bidassoa and Nivelle. First edition. Very scarce edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine images across seven plates, with two folding maps to the pocket at the rear of the text. Collated complete. A detailed account and study of the Battles of Bidassoa and Nivelle during the Peninsular War, lead by Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Written by Major-General F. C. Beatson, a British army officer who later wrote several books about the Napoleonic Wars. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 28 cm. Bound three-quarter leather and marbled boards. Front board detached. Spotting/foxing, mostly to plates, especially at outer margins. lxxxvii, 295-330 pages. 6 plates. No map present. Library book plate, blind stamps. Goldsmiths'-Kress 21458.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION, Quarto.(275 x 220mm). Half-title. [occasional light spotting /soiling] Engraved map, 6 aquatint plates by William Daniell after Samuel Davis. Contemporary half calf rebacked. Beatson was a reforming governor whose measures were not always appreciated (there was a mutiny on the island in December 1811), but his main aim was to make the island more self-sufficient and less reliant on the East India Company. His period as governor lasted from 1808 to 1813. Abbey Travel I, 312; Gay 3088. Good Copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Quarto. Bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards, expertly restored with covers reattached preserving the original binding. Very good condition. Complete with all seven b/w plates engraved by William Daniell from the drawings of Samuel Davis. An important illustrated account of the island at the time of Napoleon's captivity.

1st Ed. xv + 163pp. 4 plates. Some light browning, early marbled boards, C20th calf corners and spine, gilt motifs and gilt lettered label to spine. Alexander Beatson (17591830), army officer in the East India Company and colonial governor. '. After his return to England in November 1813 he devoted much attention to experimental agriculture on his farms, his major work in this respect being his influential A new system of cultivation without lime or dung, or summer fallows, as practised at Knowle-Farm, in Sussex (1820), with a supplement (1821). This work ran through three editions in German (1828, 1829, 1830) .' US$184.

Half Calf. Condition: Very Good. Daniell, William (engraver) ; Davis, Samuel (drawings) (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. xix, lxxxvii, 330 pp. 6 aquatints. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with blind tooling to edge of leather at boards and gilt lettering, ruling and devices to spine; all edges and endpapers marbled. Sympathetically recased with the head and tail strengthened. Rubbing to binding. Minor marking/spotting internally, though generally quite clean. The aquatint views are engraved by William Daniell, fromd drawings by Samuel Davis. Also included is a geological plan and elevation of the island. Major-General Beatson was in 1816 late Governor of the island. 4to.