major general beatson (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. red boards with titles to spine, darkened boards, light bumping to spine ends, spotting and dust marks on the page ends, frontispiece, 288pp, pages clean and VG condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in rebound in blue cloth with bright and vivid gilt titles to spine.Binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.New cream endpapers.There are NO former names present.Illusdtrated with 11 plates with the book lacking the 2 frontispiece plates.The copy was acquired from a very impressive private collection of books on The Crimea,Napoleon,Wellington and The First World War,8vo 288pp First Edition [1925].

Zustand: Good. Title: Wellington, Crossing of the Gaves & the Battle of OrthezAuthor: Major General F C BeatsonPublisher: Heath Cranton LimitedPublication date/edition: 1925Binding: HardbackIllustrated: Half-tone plates. Plate facing page 250 detachedPages: 288 Description / Condition: Wear, discolouration, grub, scuff and stain marks to boards, bumps to corners, fading to spine. Foxing to fore-edge, browning to endpapers and page edges, shipped from the UK Please see pictures for further information.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. None (illustrator). Two smart volumes on the campaigns of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington during the Napoleonic Wars. Two volumes. This set contains: The Campaign of Waterloo, 1987. With numerous maps and plans throughout. Published for the first time as a separate volume, this work provides a complete account of the campaign at Waterloo, the climactic battle of the Napoleonic Wars, abstracted from Fortescue's monumental History of the British Army. Written by Sir John William Fortescue, a British military historian who was a historian of the British Army and served as Royal Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle. With Wellington in the Pyrenees, 1993. Later printing. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-nine images across fifteen plates, and eight plans to the rear. Collated complete. The classic history of the Battle of the Pyrenees, one crucial week in the six-year-long campaign to relieve Spain of French occupation and rule. Written by Major-General Finlay Cochrane Beatson, a British Army officer known for his service in South Africa and as an instructor at the Staff College. He also authored several books on military history. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 288pp including index. Red cloth boards with black titles to spine. Ownership signature to fep. Lightly bumped at extremities and lightly foxed. Otherwise a very nice tight and authentically aged copy.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Collation pp. xiv, 163. 23.5cm x 14.5cm. 4 engraved plates. 1st edition 1820. Original paper-covered boards, new spine. Extremities rubbed, pages uncut. Occasional slight foxing, pencil notes on rear pastedown.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the Duke of Wellington and the Battles of Bidassoa and Nivelle. First edition. Very scarce edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine images across seven plates, with two folding maps to the pocket at the rear of the text. Collated complete. A detailed account and study of the Battles of Bidassoa and Nivelle during the Peninsular War, lead by Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Written by Major-General F. C. Beatson, a British army officer who later wrote several books about the Napoleonic Wars. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.

1st Ed. xv + 163pp. 4 plates. Some light browning, early marbled boards, C20th calf corners and spine, gilt motifs and gilt lettered label to spine. Alexander Beatson (17591830), army officer in the East India Company and colonial governor. '. After his return to England in November 1813 he devoted much attention to experimental agriculture on his farms, his major work in this respect being his influential A new system of cultivation without lime or dung, or summer fallows, as practised at Knowle-Farm, in Sussex (1820), with a supplement (1821). This work ran through three editions in German (1828, 1829, 1830) .' US$186.

Half Calf. Zustand: Very Good. Daniell, William (engraver) ; Davis, Samuel (drawings) (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. xix, lxxxvii, 330 pp. 6 aquatints. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with blind tooling to edge of leather at boards and gilt lettering, ruling and devices to spine; all edges and endpapers marbled. Sympathetically recased with the head and tail strengthened. Rubbing to binding. Minor marking/spotting internally, though generally quite clean. The aquatint views are engraved by William Daniell, fromd drawings by Samuel Davis. Also included is a geological plan and elevation of the island. Major-General Beatson was in 1816 late Governor of the island. 4to.