napier william e (7 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Good.

Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, small 4to: 488pp., hundreds of illustrations, maps, sources, bibliography, index. Very fine copy. Volume: Abenteuer der Entdeckungen in Farbe.

paperback. Zustand: Good.

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator). Octavo. Pp. vii, 469. Frontispiece portrait. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine; very small contemporary shelf tickets to spine, small faded stamp inside. In good condition. ~ Popular edition. 006-2.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Both copies are in Very Good condition. "Position from the Ninety-ninth Game Within, . "Scarce to have both "Unit One" and "Unit Two" sold together. ; B&W Illustrations;

Frontispiece + 11 sepia or tinted full page views, 3 topographical plans (2 folding), ix + 415 pp; original blind-stamped and gilt lettered boards 23 x 14.5 cms, wear to the head of the spine, one plate strengthened with tape at the hinge, a little age-toning to fore-edges and to the outer margins of a few plates, the frontispiece with a small marginal tidemark (not affecting the plate) slight offsetting to the two folding plans, inked inscription of "Gladswood" and the neat inked inscription of a later owner to the front pastedown, in very good condition. First edition account by Sir William Napier (1785-1860) of his brother Sir Charles Napier's conquest and administration of Scinde (Sindh). The former had been viewed as over-reach particularly by the British Resident in Sindh, Sir James Outram, and by the Governor General in India, Lord Dalhousie. The Board of Directors of the East India Company officially condemned the war as "uncalled-for, impolitic, and unjust." Sir William's account attempts to re-cast his brother as a conquering hero and pointed to Sir Charles' reforming zeal in abolishing the slave trade and his defense of women and children--particularly in his prohibition of sati. The twenty appendices republish correspondence and extraxts in defense of Napier, including as Appendix XIV, correspondance from Napier to Lord Dalhousie "relative to Lieutenant-Colonel Outram's published slanders".