Napier e r (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Original publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt lettering spine, gilt ornamental covers, large 8vo: frontispiece, map on endpapers, 332pp., 13 other illustrations, 28 maps, index.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0198128606.…

Frontispiece and eleven sepia or tinted full-page views, three topographical plans, two folding, ix + 415pp. 23 x 14.5cm. One plate strengthened with tape at the hinge and now protruding a little, a little age-toning to the fore-edges and outer margins of a few plates, small marginal tidemark to the frontispiece, not affecting the image, and slight offsetting to the two folding plans. Inked inscription ?Gladswood? and the neat inked inscription of a later owner on the front paste-down. Original blind-stamped boards lettered in gilt, wear to the head of the spine. A good copy. First edition account by Sir William Napier (1785-1860) of his brother Sir Charles Napier's conquest and administration of Scinde (Sindh). The conquest had been viewed as an over-reach particularly by the British Resident in Sindh, Sir James Outram, and by the later Governor General in India, Lord Dalhousie, with the war reputedly denounced at East India House. Sir William's account attempts to re-cast his brother as a conquering hero and points to Sir Charles' reforming zeal in abolishing the slave trade and his defence of women and children - particularly in his prohibition of sati. The twenty appendices republish correspondence and extracts in defense of Napier, including, as Appendix XIV, correspondence from Napier to Lord Dalhousie "relative to Lieutenant-Colonel Outram's published slanders".…

Reissue. Large Admiralty chart, 69 x 103.5cm. Vertical central fold with slight damp stain upper margin, neat manuscript notation in pencil on margin, 12 cm repair to closed tear at foot of central fold, some light browning, a good copy with light wear on extremities. Corrected to 1905. 2661b.