Campbell whetherly (4 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 168pp, index, biblio, illus incl fold-out plans, maps, pp 73 onwards deals with the regiments service in South Africa in the Boer War. Boards in original maroon cloth marked and rubbed at edges otherwise very good.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first edition of this fascinating account of the Dragoons, a cavalry regiment in the British Army active from 1688 and renamed in honour of Princess Charlotte in 1788. The first edition. A single publication on the story of the regiment, divided into two sections and published in honour of The Princess Royal. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. The first work The Story of the Regiment (1688-1882), by Colonel C. W. Thompson. The second, With The Regiment in South Africa (1900-1902), by Major N. D. H. Campbell; Capt. W. S. Whetherly; Capt. J. E. D. Holland. With continuous pagination. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, nineteen leaves of plates and an additional folding map to the first work and a further five plates and maps to the second, with numerous further in-text photographic vignettes. Collated complete against the record for a copy held in The London Library. A detailed account of the creation and deloyment history of this military regiment of the British Army, present at key military engagements from the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 to the Battle of Diamon d Hill during the Second Boer War in June, 1900. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. With minor bumping to cloth at extremities and joints. The occasional mark to boards. Slight offsetting to end paper extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Gentle cockling to pages in places. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st thus 1913. Good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Maroon cloth with black titles. B/w photos. Some fold-out pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some scuffing marks to covers. Joints are a bit cracked and weak. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some page corners are creased. Grubby margin marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

4to. Portrait frontispiece and numerous other plates and illustrations, maps and plans including one coloured plate of the standard, a folding map of South Africa, and one folding panorama. One gathering loose, but otherwise very good in the original plum cloth. 168pp. Liverpool, Hackett p.191. A very good copy of a scarce history, the greater part of which concerns the Boer War. Tipped onto the title page is the menu for the "Black Horse Veterans" Annual Dinner, 1929 with pencilled signatures of members of the Regiment, a number of signatures also to the front free endpaper.…