James Simpson Esq (2 results)

Condition: Good. 1815. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Brown half bound cloth and leather boards. Insert to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mottles light brown cloth boards with red blocked slip and gilt titles to spine, 185 x 125 mm approx. Publisher's green and brown floral made end papers, top edge gilt, xiv + 314 pp + 2 double page maps of the Battle of Waterloo - 1st Morning and Ditto -Crisis of the Battle - with forces coloured. 1853 First Edition (Preface dated December 1852) The copy offered is inscribed in ink to the top margin of the half title "With the Author's Compliments". Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Cloth boards- spine sunned with slight fraying to head and extreme corner tips, mild shelf soiling, Previous owner name in ink to preliminary blank, insc. to half title as above, moderate foxing to prelims, rear few pages and occasionally to some leaves of book block.Face of maps clean, binding sound with no cracks to end papers. No other notable defects). Inscribed by Author(s).…