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Very Good. No Jacket. Elephant Folio-over 15"-23" tall. The complete set in 4 volumes. Full green calf; raised bands, and elaborate blind tooling on both covers and spine. Spines rebacked, with original leather laid on. Page block gilt three edges. Numerous steel engravings, plus 13 plans of the Marquis' gallery. Light foxing of several pages, overall a very nice set.
Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Xlvii, 220pp; 306 plates, 15 fragments, + indexes. Name of a previous owner discretely on ffep, corners bumped, minor shelf wear, otherwise very good. Publishing date "1932 (for 1931)". An account of all title-page frames, or compartments, cut either on a single piece of wood or metal, or in pieces evidently intended to form part of a single design, and founs in use in Great Britain and Ireland before the close of the year 1640.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Printed for T. Caldwell, and W. Davies, Strand; and A. Constable and Co., Edinburgh
Date Published: 1807
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. xii, 908pp; 1 fldg. map of Scotland, 1 fldg. genealogical table (both repaired but complete). Rebound in brown buckram; bookplate on fep. Volume I only. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Silas Chapman, Milwaukee, IL
Date Published: 1856
Description: Good+ No Jacket. Map. 24.5 X 40 inches (approx. ), folded to 12mo. Colored map, gilt title on grey/brown cloth covers. One small closed tear to map at point of 4-way fold, otherwise a very nice copy of a rare item. read more
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A collection of three rare original military texts, bound into one volume.1. "The Art of Defence on Foot with the Broad Sword and Sabre, Uniting the Scotch and Austrian Methods into one Regular System. To which are added Remarks on the Spadroon", the Second Edition, 1798, by C. Roworth, of the Royal Westminster Volunteers. 108pp; 8 plates (5 folding). 2. "Regulations for the Exercise of Riflemen and Light Infantry, and Instructions for Their Conduct ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward, Lock, and Co., London
Date Published: 1883
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. 94pp; advertisements to front and rear; b/w frontis., 9 b/w sketch illus., 8 diagrams. Name of a previous owner discretely on ffep, minor wear to extremities, overall a very nice example of a scarce work. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, Limited, London
Date Published: 1922
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very nice example of the scarce limited first edition (this is number 459). xx, 359pp; 7 folding coloured maps; one sketch map in text; frontis. + 5 b/w illus. Laid-in is a letter of transmittal, signed by the Hon. Sec of the History of the 36th Division (Ken M. Moore). Underlining of a few words towards the rear of the book, very minor wear to corners of binding, but overall a very nice copy of the scarce first edition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Richard Bentley, London
Date Published: 1851
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Title continues: "...From the unpublished letters and journals of political and military officers employed in Afghanistan throughout the entire period of British connexion with that country. " The 2-volume edition. Volume I: xii, 660pp. Volume II: vi, 690pp. Both volumes bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and endpapers, 5 raised bands to spine, gilt dec. and titles. Page block marbled 3 edges. Minor wear to extremes of corners, name of a ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto
Date Published: 1907
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. xiii, 673pp; numerous b/w full-plate portraits. Rebacked in cloth with original brown calf front and rear covers laid on. A very nice copy. read more
