Edwardes major herbert b (6 Ergebnisse)

3rd edition. 8vo. xvi + 627pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and 1 portrait. Ex-library, with inkstamp to half title and library bookplates and markings to front f.e.p. and pastedown. Hinges cracked. Original brown cloth with gilt lettered spine, spine slightly rubbed. US$29.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback ,third edition, octavo, russet cloth lettered gilt to the spine, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, two tissue guarded portraits, xvi + 627pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Richard Bentley, London, UK. 1851. Xxiv, 608 pgs, xvi, 734 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in 3/4 leather and cloth covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have heavy shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn; missing the rear board of volume 1). No ownership marks present. Stain present to the edges of the frontispiece. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. First edition of Edwardes account of the Punjab Rebellion of 1848, also known as the second Anglo-Sikh War. Major-General Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes KCB KCSI DCL (12 November 1819 23 December 1868) was a British administrator, soldier, and statesman active in the Punjab region of British India. He is best known as the "Hero of Multan" for his pivotal role in securing British victory in the Second Anglo-Sikh War. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Full red cloth boards decorated in gilt and blind pictorial design. Spines lettered in gilt. Blue pasted and free endpapers. , Major-General Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes KCB KCSI DCL (1819 ? 1868) was a British administrator, soldier, and statesman active in the Punjab region of British India. He is best known as the "Hero of Multan" for his pivotal role in securing British victory in the Second Anglo-Sikh War.Having been prevented from going up to Oxford by pressure from his guardians, Edwardes determined himself on a career in India. He applied directly to Sir Richard Jenkins, of Bicton Hall, Salop, a deputy chairman of the East India Company, formerly of the Bombay Civil Service, Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury in 1837, and family friend, for a cadetship in the Bengal Infantry. He landed at Calcutta early in 1841, aged 22, and from July 1842 served as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Bengal European Regiment, first at Dinapore and then at Karnal, a frontier station. He remained with this regiment about five years, during which time he obtained a good knowledge of the Hindustani, Urdu and Persian languages, passing exams in all 3 subjects, which qualified him for the position of interpreter, which he obtained in November 1845, aged 26. He developed a deep understanding of military, political and social affairs in India, which showed itself in his many literary contributions to the Delhi Gazette entitled "Brahminee Bull's letters to his Cousin John Bull", expressing bold political opinions often critical of British Indian policy. His essays became well-read throughout British India and particularly impressed the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army himself, Sir Hugh Gough, who appointed Edwardes a member of his personal staff., Size : 8vo. (230 x 150 mm), Very good example. Illustrated with 10 plates, some folding, including a plan of the Fort of Mooltan. , Volume : 2 volumes. , Ex-Libris; bookplates of F.M. Mitchelson on front pastedowns. Ownership inked on half-title.Ex-Libris; bookplates of F.M. Mitchelson on front pastedowns. Ownership inked on half-title. Fore edge tear at pgs. 101/102, occasional discreet repairs. Interior else clean and crisp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo., [xxxiv, 608pp.] + [xvi, 734pp.], half-titles present, portrait frontispiece to volume I, colour litho frontispiece to volume II, 5 plates(including 2 colour lithographs, 1 folding map, 2 folding plans, 1 fascimile letter from Vans Agnew to General Van Cortlandt, bound in later twentieth century buckram with printed paper title labels, small contemporary stain to extreme top of frontispiece on volume II else a VG+ clean set of Edwardes' classic account of the 1848 Punjab rebellion. In 1848 on the Punjab frontier an "insurrection rapidly grew into a national movement against the English occupation" (Bright, History of England, 192). That spring, following the murder of officers Agnew and Anderson at Multan, by order of the Mulraj, the young Lt. Edwardes, who had arrived in India as a cadet in 1841, "raised a body of armed tribesmen, and rapidly formed a fairly disciplined and faithful force He routed the rebel troops at Kineyri and inflicted on the enemy a second defeat at Sadusam, in front of MultanYoung, alone, untrained in military science and unversed in active war, [Edwardes] had organized victory and rolled back rebellion" (DNB). "For his services he received the thanks of both houses of parliament, was promoted major by brevet, and created C.B. by special statute of the order After the conclusion of peace Major Edwardes returned to England and wrote and published his fascinating account of the scenes in which he had been engaged, under the title of A Year on the Punjab Frontier" (Britannica).…

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium. good condition. Text: "Herewith I return the Proofs, corrected to the best of my ability. The speech is wonderfully well reported I think. | I have not touched any speech but my own. | Lady Edwardes joins me in kind regards to Mrs. Phillips & yourself; & I assure you we look back with pleasure to our stay under yur roof. [.]" He is, perhaps, referring to his speech at the Church Missionary Society's Meeting in London, in May, 1860(?).…