Middleton Colonel (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Good Copy in Original red cloth with gilt titles to spine and front cover.One former ownership name of what appears to read 'GJB Bundle or Buckle and it's dated 1895.Illustrated with some 44 fold out plans/maps within the text and housed ina rear pocket are 6 fragile maps of France & Belgium 1815,North West France 1812,Russian Campaign 1812,Spain and Portugal 1809,N Italy 1800.There is some wear and tears to these fragile maps but a wonderful thing that they have survived still in it's rear pocket.The work covers significant European campaigns between 1740 and 1870 frequently cited in military literature, likely including the Seven Years' War, Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, and the Franco-Prussian War. There are some copious notes made in pencil to the errata page and it's verso (could be erased of course) Contents remain clean internally with some offset browning to the title page and with slightly weakened at the title page join and also to the rear pastedown hinge join.Undated but Circa 1895 published in London.8vo 323pp Circa 1895.

Condition: Good. Outlines of Military History or, a concise account of the principal campaigns in Europe between the years 1740 and 1870, being those generally referred to in our military text books.by Colonel O.R. Middleton, c.1890's.Published by Mitchell & Co., London.Illustrated - pull-out maps aplenty to pages + 7 loose leaf maps to rear pocket.Pages: 323 + intro + maps.Condition: Some shelf wear and minor edge bumps to boards with little chipping to spine edges. Ownership label to inner board and title page. Light foxing to pages with some spotting, edge wear and creases in places. Minor pencil marks in places and a couple of pen marks to pages. Maps in rear pocket a tad worn/torn to edges.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1904. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is copy No. 11. [x], iv, 255pp., a frontispiece showing Stirling Castle and 10 other black and white illustrations. Top edge gilt. The raising of a militia force in Scotland was outlawed by statute before 1794 to prevent powerful landowners putting together private armies, yet the increasing tension in relations with France in the latter years of the 18th century led to the passing of the Militia Act of 1797, which empowered the Lieutenants to raise militia forces. Militiamen were to be selected by ballot, annual training was to be provided and in times of crisis Corps were to be embodied. The counties of Fife, Stirling, Clackmannan and Kinross were united for the purpose of becoming a militia, known as the 5th or Fifeshire Regiment of North British Militia. In 1803, Dumbarton was substituted for Fife to form the Stirling, Dumbarton, Clackmannan and Kinross Militia, later called the 90th Regiment of British Militia. Stirling Militia was disbanded as a standing army at the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1816. The Militia (Scotland) Act of 1854 revived the Militia, giving it a permanent peacetime existence but the use of volunteers rather than recruits reduced the responsibilities of the Lieutenancies. From 1855, the Stirling Militia was known as the Highland Borderers Light Infantry and then, from 1881, as the 3rd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The Stirlingshire Volunteers became volunteer battalions in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and they were transformed into the Territorial Force with the creation of the Territorial Army in 1908. This volume of Records of the 3rd Battalion also contains a comprehensive Roll of Officers from 1801 to 1903. The book is bound in the original red buckram cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and gold emblem on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some light soiling to the boards. The spine has faded to a light brown colour and there is also some fading around the edges of the boards. The bottom of the spine is lightly bumped and there is heavier bumping to the top of the spine. The contents are tight and clean and the page at the start of the book containing numbering details has been flat signed by the compiler. The free endpapers are browned and there is a decorative bookplate (of Scottish brewer, James Younger) on the front fixed endpaper. PLEASE NOTE: This is a fairly heavy book and extra postage may apply for delivery outside the UK. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Quite a bit of wear to red cloth hardcover. Spine is worn and has been taped. Owner signature and Black Watch library stamp on title page. Front free end paper has been removed. Traver Williams-Taylor memorial label pasted to inside front cover. Otherwise a solid, unmarked book. xvii, 323 pp + numerous fold-out maps and 5 folded maps in rear pocket.

Pp. [x]+iv+256, frontispiece (foxed), lettered guard, 2 portrait plates (lettered guards), 8 plates, title page in red & black, appendix; cr. 4to; red boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, worn and soiled, spine and portions of boards faded, fore-corners bruised; upper hinge cracked, bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers offset, leaves browned and lightly foxed; Eneas Mackay, Stirling, 1882. First trade edition. White p. 158. *With the ownership inscription of J. R. Couper, dated April 1911, Stirling Castle on upper free endpaper, who is listed on page 182 of the text.