Napier Lt Colonel (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Pages are age tanned, quite well used, with intermittent foxing. Binding is internally very good. Front cover is detached. Leather spine and green marbled boards are quite worn. Not illustrated.Approximately 5 1/2" X 9". 224 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Volume 1: Publication of 320 pages. Frontispiece, with a protective tissue guard // Volume 2: Publication of 354 pages. Frontispiece is missing. /// Drawings taken from Nature. Complete with all Plates, except the frontispiece in Volume 2. Bookplate from the previous owner tipped in on the front inner boards, in both volumes. No edition stated. The spines of both book have mostly been replaced, retaining some of the old spine. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There are age related marks and foxing within both the books. The text remains legible. The binding is strong. In good condition considering the age of the book (1844). Set Of Two Volumes. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

3/4 calf with marbled boards. Complete set in 6 volumes of Napier's Peninsular War, published between the years 1828-1840, first volume published by John Murray, volumes 2-6 by Thomas and William Boone; all volumes 3/4 maroon calf with 6 compartments to spine (2 black title labels with gilt titling, 4 gilt devices), marbled boards, marbled endpapers and text block; includes numerous full-page plates, being maps illustrating key battle moments and strategies; also includes substantial reference appendices; to foot of title page vol 5 reads 'to which are prefixed answers to some attacks in Robinson's Life of Picton, and in The Quarterly Review; with counter-remarks to Mr. Dudley Montagu Perceval's remarksupon some passages in Colonel Napier's fourth volume of The History of the Peninsular War', and similar to vol 6; vol 1 530pp with 96pp appendices, 8 plates; vol 2 467pp (67) 8 plates; vol 3 564pp (76) 12 plates; vol 4 479pp (110) 9 plates; vol 5 581pp (41) 8 plates; vol 6 688pp (22) 10 plates; all volumes with foxing to endpapers and prelims (mild-medium), offset from maps, shelfwear to boards, o.w. Very Good throughout; leather scuffed (and with occasional minor loss) to corners and to head and tail of spine, and along hinges; leather a little tanned to spines. . 3289pp (412). 6 volumes 8vo. All volumes Very Good throughout boards/leather lightly scuffed and rubbed All volumes Very Good throughout boards/leather lightly scuffed and rubbed. b&w maps (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. To Which is Prefixed A Reply to Various Opponents; Together With Observations Illustrating Sir J. Moore's Campaigns. 8vo, full calf, raised bands and gilt titles and decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. A uniformly bound set of mixed editions, mainly first. 1832-1840 with vol.s I & II second edition (1832), vol.s III (1831), IV (1834), V (1836) & VI (1840) first editions. Vol. I, lxxix + 618pp illustrated with 8 plates; vol. II, xi + 530pp with 8 plates; vol. III, xiii + 640pp with 12 plates; vol. IV, xvi + 589pp with 9 plates; vol. V, lxxxvi + 622pp with 8 plates; vol. VI, cv + 710pp with 10 plates, corner of a couple of pages missing with no loss of text (looks like an error during binding). A little damp staining to the base of a couple of volumes. With occasional pencil notes inside and a little age toning, generally to the plates. Occasional chipping, small tear to a couple of plates. An extensive history of the war, the political machinations, battlefields, state of the countries involved, strategy, letters, state of the various armies etc. Vol VI has prefixed Several Justificatory Pieces in reply to criticism. From the collection of George Gilbert Ramsay of Glasgow University with his personal bookplate on the front pastedowns. A very attractive matching set of these volumes in excellent condition with a fine provenance.***Heavy and may require extra overseas postage***.…

HARD COVER. Condition: VERY GOOD+. *FIRST EDITION*. THREE QUARTER LEATHER BINDING OVER MARBLED BOARDS, FIVE RAISED BANDS, BRIGHT CRISP GOLD GILT LETTERING ON BLACK PRINTED LABEL ON SPINE, BOOKPLATE OF GEORGE THORNHILL ESQR IN EACH VOLUME. THE BOOKS ARE DATED AS THEY WERE WRITTEN AND PRINTED OVER A PERIOD OF SEVERAL YEARS. VOLUME I: LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, 1828 FIRST EDITION, XVIII + 2 + 529 + XCVI, 8 PLATES. VOLUME II: LONDON: THOMAS AND WILLIAM BOONE, 1829, FIRST EDITION XI + 1 + 534, 8 PLATES. VOLUME III: LONDON: THOMAS AND WILLIAM BOONE, 1831, FIRST EDITION XIII + 3 + 640, FIRST BINDING ERROR: PLATES 1-7 AND 9-12 ARE BOUND BETWEEN THE NOTICE AND THE BEGINNING OF THE TEXT RATHER THAN WITHIN THE TEXT AS CALLED FOR, SECOND BINDING ERROR: LACKS PLATE #8. VOLUME IV: LONDON: THOMAS AND WILLIAM BOONE, 1834, FIRST EDITION XVI + 589 + 1 (ADVERTISEMENT), 9 PLATES. VOLUME V: LONDON: THOMAS AND WILLIAM BOONE, 1836, FIRST EDITION 12 + LXXXVI + 622, 8 PLATES. VOLUME VI: LONDON: THOMAS AND WILLIAM BOONE, 1840, FIRST EDITION 12 + CV + 710, 10 PLATES. ALL PLATES LISTED ARE FULL PAGE MAPS. SOME FOXING, LOWER SPINE WEAR AND EDGE WEAR. OVERALL A CLEAN STRONG TIGHT AND IMPRESSIVE SET. EXCEPTIONAL. Size: OCTAVO.…

First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes, engraved frontispieces and seven other illustrations Vol. 1; xxx, 359pp. contains a table of contents for volume one and a list of plates for both volumes, Vol. 2; iv table of contents, 456pp. A history of the Cape of Good Hope Colony, its inhabitants, religion beliefs, and how to deal with the Convict systems in Southern Africa. The author also proves who started the Kaffir war. A very good set, though ex-library with embossed library stamp and withdrawn stamp to recto of frontispieces, they were tastefully rebound in light brown cloth, double red leather labels gilt, some scattered foxing the frontispieces.…

including a History of the Cape Colony, an Account of the Native Tribes, Etc. First edition. 2 vols. Five engraved plates, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines elaborately gilt. xxx, 359; iv, 456pp. London, William Shoberl, Ostensibly a history of the Cape Colony from settlement to the Kaffir War of 1876-7, the work is a critique of the British Government in the Cape. Indeed, the original draft was, according to the author, rejected by several publishers on the grounds that it was too outspoken on the failures of its subject. Mendelssohn II, p75.…