Published by Forces & Corporate Publishing Ltd, Rushden, Northants, 2008
Seller: Washburn Books, Pateley Bridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 10.39
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Foreword by Col A D Mathewson OBE. News and articles from the Scots Guards. 162pp, illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white. Slight surface scuffing to cover, otherwise near fine copy with no inscriptions. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 3/4 morocco and pebbled cloth, simple spine stamping in gilt, 2438pp., publisher's ads in four leaves. With the large, linen backed folding map inserted at pp. 112-113. A Good+ to Very Good copy.
Seller: Goltzius, Lisse, Netherlands
Paris, Charles Bechet/Ambroise Dupont, 1827, 162+8+(4)pp. engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena as frontispiece, by Couche fils, original paper binding, some damage to front hinge and spine, age staining throughout. Documents relating to the stay by Napoleon on Saint Helena until his death in 1821.Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland KCB (7 September 1777 - 30 November 1839) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He rose to the rank of rear admiral and held a number of commands. The most famous event of his career occurred when Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to him aboard HMS Bellerophon, marking the final end of the Napoleonic Wars. This is the scarce Paris edition of this important book on the last few years of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Publication Date: 1826
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. 8vo. Orig. paper boards (rebacked; edges worn). (xvi, 248, x, 4pp.). With fold. map as frontisp. Book adverts at end. Uncut.