Blacker lt col valentine (1 Ergebnisse)

Half-Leather. Zustand: Fair to Good Only. No Jacket. First Edition. With a foldg. frontis,8 maps and 38 plans, most coloured in outline.Contemporary half light brown calf, marbled boards, the surfaces rather rubbed, edges rubbed also. short tear to spine at head. Neatly repaired small burn to the lower gutter edge of the margin of plates25-45, affecting the printed surface slty of a few and to the lower rear board adjacent to 2 contemporary signatures of Lt.Gen Sir H.Hawker . VERY SCARCE. A complete copy. The more common text volume, is not present. The two ownership signatures are those of Major General Sir Thomas Hawker, later Lt Gen. Sir Thomas Hawker, 1777-1858 who served in India with the 20th Dragoon Guards to 1838 and from 1839 to 1858 as Colonel of the 6th Dragoon Guards. This is a clean copy and now professionally repaired with period paper strips,to the rear unprinted reverse side, although a little browning remains to the damaged paper edges. The maps into which the damage reaches the printed surface are no.s 30, 32, 33,34,35,37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43,and 44. the double maps have this damage to each leaf at the tail of the gutter. Damage to the printed surface measures between 0.5 and 1.0 cm.in depth and 0.5 cm in width. Loss of marginal paper is between 2.0 - 2.5cm in width. Blacker, the historian of the Mahratta Wars, served in the Madras Cavalry in 1798 and was a Cornet in the Mysore Campaign of 1799. He died in Calcutta in 1823 . A PHOTOGRAPH CAN BE SENT PROMPLY UPON REQUEST.…