Griffiths captain f a (3 risultati)

xii, 300pp. With 12 engraved plates. Contemporary black half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Rubbed, lightly marked. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition of a diminutive mid-nineteenth century martial vade mecum compiled by British Army officer and military writer Frederick Augustus Griffiths (1795/6-1869). The book ran through eleven editions by 1873. This edition was published at Woolwich, where the author taught at the Royal Military Academy. OCLC and COPAC record copies at just seven locations (BL, Brock, Brown, Cambridge, NLDA, NMS, and Oxford). Size: 12mo.…

Small hardback, approx 6 x 3.5 inches. Halfbound black calf leather and marbled paper to boards. Speckled page edges, raised banding and embossed decoration to spine, with maroon leather spine label lettered in gilt. In very good condition. Boards rubbed, corners bumped, rubbing to edges and ends of spine. Inscription to endpaper, rear of title page and rear of plate at p96. Some occasional handling marks and minor foxing spots to pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xxvii + 372pp. Illustrated with 12 B&W engraved plates, figures and tables within text.…

An interesting soldier's vade mecum from the mid-19th century. "The present edition contains about one fourth additional material, one extra Plate, Wood cuts &c." Not in Riling. Duodecimo (152 x 95 mm). 12 plates, one of them double-page. Contemporary half black roan on marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscription of Lt. J. W. Christian to the title page. Light browning, a little rubbed at the extremities with wear to spine ends, front hinge slightly cracked but holding fine, very good condition.…