Captain James Hanson (2 results)

Full green diced morocco boards, rebacked preserving original spine. Upper and lower with triple gilt fillet border. Spine with gilt rules and motifs, gilt lettering on 2 black morocco labels. Blind dentelles. Brown pasted and free endpapers., Sir Miles Nightingall (1768 ? 1829) was a British Army officer. He sat in the House of Commons as a Tory from 1820 to 1829. Nightingall entered the army in 1787. He served in India and in England with Lord Cornwallis. He was also Military Secretary during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty in India. In 1811, Nightingall took command of the 1st Division in the Anglo-Portuguese Army in the Peninsula War before he again went to India, where he served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army from 1816 to 1819. , Size : 8vo. (220 x 140 mm), Includes folding frontis-map, subscriber?s list, and errata slip. Score for Italian ?Canzonetta? at back., Ex-Libris; bookplate of Honourable James Butter on front free endpaper., 284 pp. A near fine-to-fine example in an attractive green leather binding.

First (only) edition. viii, [ii], 284pp., errata leaf at end, folding map, modern half calf gilt over old marbled boards, a very good example. 500 - 600 First and only edition. Hanson, 'Late Assistant Quarter-Master-General with the Field Army of the Madras Establishment', acted as ADC to Sir Miles Nightingall, commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army, on his return home from India in 1819. The party sailed on the Teignmouth, an East Indiaman, from Bombay to Suez via the Red Sea but were grounded on a sandbank in the Gulf of Aden, before landing at Jeddah where they were welcomed by the Turkish governor, newly installed following the restoration of Ottoman rule in Egypt. Having taken advice from Henry Salt, consul-general in Egypt, they decided on an overland route across the desert that would take in the 'most interesting and marvellous ruins' at Thebes. Hanson's book is dedicated admiringly to Lady Nightingall - Florentia Darell, daughter of Sir Lionel Darell, chairman of the East India Company - who underwent 'fatigues, privations, and even dangers 'with an admirable sangfroid and 'characteristic cheerfulness'. Decidedly uncommon - the subscribers' list accounts for only 145 copies.