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More imagesPublished by Bailliere Brothers, New York 1864
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Octavo, [2], 7-200 pages. In Good condition. Bound in full contemporary brown embossed cloth with gilt titling. Boards show fading to covers, and small cracks and chipping to spine edges and corners. Text block has slight age-toning to pages interiorly. Ink ownership inscription appears on front free end paper: "S. J.… Radcliffe Surgeon [illeg] Lt. Col & Med'c Dir'r 23d A.C. July 15 1865". Ex-library copy with usual markings, including a bookplate to front pastedown, institutional stamps to several pages, and call number written in pencil. MF Consignment. According to cuttings pasted into inside of front cover, Dr. Samuel J. Radcliffe was a Surgeon and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Medical Staff, and retired from the army to establish a medical practice in Baltimore. He was given an honorary A.M. degree by Georgetown College in 1866, and was later that year appointed examining surgeon by the Pension Bureau. Extremely scarce, with only sixteen identified institutional holdings. 1358020. Special Collections.
More imagesPublished by London; Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, Paternoster-Row; T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall; and John Cumming, no. 16, Lower Ormond-Quay, Dublin, 1820. 1820
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Keel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA., Whitley Bay, United KingdomKeel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
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Quarto, pp., xiii, [3], 149, xxv, [1], plus hand-coloured folding frontispiece Prince Poniatowksi, and 19 plates, as called for. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, double fillets gilt to spine in compartments, titles gilt to spine, marbled end-papers, all edges speckled red. Spade-shield bookplate of Sir Benjamin Chapma…n, likely that of the 4th bt (1810-1888), to front paste-down. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY 'To Charles William Sansome From His very sincere Well ridden friend The Author'. Light rubbing to boards, and shelf-wear to corners and edges, upper joint a lille worn but holding firm, slight loss to head of spine. Some plates cut a little close, and very occasional light soiling to contents. A very good copy A rare volume on lancers, written in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The author was a key instigator in the adoption of the lance by British cavalry units. De Montmorency was captured at Verdun, and imprisoned for three years, but was given the freedom to study both the French and Polish lancers, which were world-renowned shock units. This publication was a significant treatise in the transformation of the British cavalry. WorldCat locates 3 copies only, at St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and the National Library of Scotland. Collins, R.M. 'Lieut-Colonel Reymond Hervey de Montmorcey', in Society for Army Historical Research.
