captain william jesse (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b Notes of a Half-pay in search of health or, Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 1839, 40.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the Unite.

Large 8vo. pp xxiii, 309; xi, 300, [20] colour plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spines. New edition with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. Two thousand copies of this edition printed at The Riverside Press. No date, circa 1920. Slight rubbing at extremities, dulling to lettering at spine and slight browning to endpapers, otherwise sound, close very good with clean text and plates.

Quarter leather. 1st edition. 1st Edition, 8vo, original embossed cloth boards, gilt dec, colour frontis (Costume of Persians) with tissue guard, all edges gilt, pp.491, school prize plate (1864) fep, re-backed in red morocco with gilt title and decoration to spine, lacking both maps, otherwise in very good condition and a very fine binding A beautifully rebacked copy of the first edition in English. A translation of Joseph Philippe Ferrier's original manuscript, a French soldier and later Adjutant General with the army in Persia (present day Iran) from 1839 to 1842 and again in 1846 to 1850.

Two volumes, 8vo. 20 colour plates, some light foxing. Cloth, d.w.'s browned with loss to the spine ends.