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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Five smart first edition volumes on the Coldstream Guards, the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. Five volumes of a six volume set. Lacking The Coldstream Guards 1920-1946. A collection concerning the oldest serving regular regiment of the British Army, the Coldstream Guards, with the principal role being protecting the monarchy. This set includes: The Early History of the Coldstream Guards, 1924. The history of the regiment from the First Civil War to the Restoration, exploring their role in the many battles between. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, one double-paged plate, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. Written by G. Davies, a British military historian. The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918, Volume I and II and Maps, 1928. An extensive account of the history of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards during the First World War from 1914-18. Telling of the history of the Regiment and the role it played during WW1, including details on the beginning of the war, and of the battles of Marne, Aisne, Ypres, Somme, Cambrai, and numerous others. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece. Maps is illustrated with twenty-seven folding maps. Collated complete. Written by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg, a British soldier, author, commissioner of DMP, and landscape gardener. The Coldstream Guards 1885-1914, 1929. A further account of the regiment between 1885 and 1914, with chapters on the Boer Republics, the Battle of Belmont, the occupation of Bloemfontein, the Battle of Diamon Hill, the Blockhouse Line, and the lead up to the First World War. Illustrated with seven folding maps. Collated complete. Previously held in the library of A. F. Sinclair, a member of the Coldstream Guards. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of The Coldstream Guards 1885-1914. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed. book.

No binding. Zustand: Very Good. FIRST LARGE SCALE ENGLISH MAP OF THE REGION AFTER THE TREATY. 1120 x 340 mm., in fine early outline colour. Two sheets joined, printed on strong paper, in good condition. Following the Treaty of Paris in 1763 which ended the French and Indian War Britain gained possession of all the territory west to the Mississippi River. The 34th Regiment was dispatched to the recently acquired Illinois region in late 1765 to demand the surrender of the last French outpost in the region at Fort Chartres. As the title indicates Lieutenant John Ross, surveyor with the Regiment, undertook a survey of this new territory. In addition to his own surveys, Ross also drew on French sources, especially the maps of Jean Baptiste d'Anville. This is the FIRST LARGE SCALE ENGLISH MAP OF THE REGION PUBLISHED AFTER THE TREATY. It extends northwards to the region just south of present day St. Louis. Indeed, the area just south of the Ohio River is the New Madrid region which 36 years later between 16 December 1811 and 7 February 1812 would be devastated by four magnitude 8 earthquakes which wiped out the town and altered the course of the Mississippi River. It is one of the more significant and important maps published at the time as it records for the first time the new territories gained by the British in the west which encouraged migration to the area. It would also mark the western boundary of the future United States of America. The map is full of regional information noting local tribes, numerous towns and forts and even mines, quarries and cane fields! There are brief legends throughout which are more descriptive including points of interest such as the site of De Soto's discovery of the Mississippi River in 1541 and navigational instructions. This map was first published in 1772 and this state was issued for the first edition of Thomas Jeffery's 'American Atlas'. It bore numerous improvements particularly in the region of New Orleans in the lower Mississippi. Forts T. Lion and St. Mary were added. This lower region is outlined green to indicate its retention by the French although Baton Rouge is shown to the north. Lemmon, Magill & Wiese (2003) pp. 106-7; Phillips (1901) p. 439. Phillips (1909-) 1165; Sellers & Van Ee (1981) 781; Shirley (2004) T.Say 2b no. 33; Stevens & Tree (1967) 31 state b.