Delafield major richard (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: G+. No Jacket. First Edition. Printed in Washington by Geo. Bowman, 1860, 1st Edition, fr info gathered by Military Commission to Theater of War in Europe, under orders of Jeff. Davis, Sec'y of War. Scarce. Good+ cond. hardcover, no dj. Dark brown pebbled cloth over bds w/ ornate blindstamping on covers & gilt lettering on spine. Mdt chipping to exterior, & bds attached but coming loose. Light foxing to first few & last few pages, o/w internally very clean. Textblock binding sound. All foldouts present & generally VG, though a few are mis-folded. Illus in b&w. A nice copy. An oversize, heavier than standard book, approx 3" thick. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall G+ or better cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First Edition. 287p + 80 penciled numbered plates most large foldouts of maps, plans and scenes. Handsomely rebound circa mid 1900s in 3/4 red morocco and cloth silk endpapers. An exceptional copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Thick quarto. xvi, 287pp. Decorative chromolithographic title page, many plates, including many folding plates. Rebound in quarter calf and marbled papercovered boards with red leather spine label. Contemporary owner's name, small nicks and tears to the edges of a couple of leaves of one of the oversize folding plates, one folded plate detached (laid-in), else a pleasing and tight, near fine copy.…

Thick 4to. xvi, 287, [1] pp. Hand-coloured lithograph frontisp., 13 large folding maps, 45 fortifications, military equipment, architectural views (many large folding), 25 large lithograph folding plates (3 colour-tinted), with over 100 line drawings, text woodcut engravings, and text maps. Original black pebbled cloth, embossed ornament in blind on covers, gilt lettering on spine (minor chipping & worm holes to gutters of spine, minor bumping to corners, minor tidemark to fore-edges of first few signatures textblock), still G copy. First edition of this detailed and influential report on the Crimean War, and the state of European fortifications and armaments during the conflict. The Crimean War was intently watched in the future Confederate states, with southern newspapers and supporters sympathizing with the Russians. The European Military Commission dispatched by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis included future Union generals such as George B. McClellan and Major Alfred Mordecai. Delafield covered all aspects of the developments during the Crimean War, including the tactical impact of rifled muskets, field fortifications, improved saddles, hospital wagons, and medical tents, as well as detailing Russian sea mines, and the Anglo-French ironclads used at Kinburn. This work published on the eve of the Civil War offered an invaluable handbook for both Northern and Southern commanders, as well as cautionary observations. See: Lambert, The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-56, pp. 20-22; Horace Jones, Southern Military Interests in the Crimean War, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 25 (2012).…