Buckle Captain E (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. 4th Edition. Very good condition, gilt on the spine remains bright and the boards and binding are intact. There is foxing on the page outer edges but the contents themselves are perfect. There is slight wear on the top and bottom of the spine. 300 pages.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9789391928308.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. The first company of the Bengal Artillery was raised in 1749, and consisted of one Captain, one Second Captain, one Captain Lieutenant, three Lieutenant Fireworkers, four Sergeants, four Corporals, three Drummers and one hundred Gunners. This book is a history of the Bengal Artillery and gives a detailed account of its internal organization. The first company was destroyed in the Black Hole of 20 June 1756, where 45 of their men perished. The company was re-organized, and a second and the third company were raised. Captain Buckle's memoir has been considered a definitive work on the subject and covers the formation, development, equipment and the campaigns of the Bengal Artillery in detail.

Condition: new.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A scarce history of the Bengal Army, the first edition of this work penned by its former captain. The first edition of this scarce work.A study on the Bengal Army, a presidency army which existed from 1756 to 1908. At its largest, the army commanded 105,000 soldiers. This history looks at the army and how they had occupied themselves from their founding up to the 1850s, a space of almost a century, and what attacks and battles they had been in.With the occasional in-text illustration.By the Captain of the Bengal Army, E. Buckle, edited by J. W. Kaye. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, lacking the backstrip. Light bumping to the extremities. Cloth to the head of the front board is a little cockled. A few light marks to the cloth and a little rubbing to the rear board. Hinges are starting but firm. Faint tidemark to the front paste down and endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fair. book.

Thick 8vo, xvi, 592pp., 18 drawings (mostly of guns & equipment), rebound in wine cloth gilt titles, fine. History of Bengal Artillery from 1756 to 1852. Bengal Presidency.

First Edition. By the late Captain E. Buckle. Edited by J. W. Kaye. Pp. xvi+592, text illustrations and tables, [original?] dark brown coated endpapers, index; demy 8vo; rebound in qr. red leather which has been neatly rebacked with a more recent red leather spine lettered in gilt, navy cloth boards [early but not original], a trifle scuffed; uncut; hinges reinforced, the lower pastedown slightly grazed, a couple of tiny edge chips or splits, fore-corners of a few leaves slightly creased, a little light foxing and soiling; Wm. H. Allen & Co., London, 1852. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on the upper pastedown. Edmund Buckle (1808-1846) was a Captain in the Bengal Artillery. The editor, Sir John William Kay (1814-1876) was a British civil servant, army officer and military historian whose works included a three volume History of the Sepoy War in India.