rice colonel samuel (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xv, 326pp + Publisher's Catalogue. Covers show edgewear and light staining, but this is otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xv + 326pp + 64pp appendices to rear, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate staining & fading/tanning to spine, minor staining/soiling to boards/edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional foxing to pages throughout- minor).

Cloth. Condizione: Good. None (illustratore). First edition. A first edition of this detailed history of the life of a regimental officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. First edition. Uncommon work. A detailed historical study of the life of a British regimental officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, from 1793 to 1815. Compiled from the correspondence of Colonel Samuel Rice of the 51st Light Infantry, who had served in the regiment since 1793, and was the lieutenant colonel and commanded the 51st at Waterloo. With other sources added. Written by Lieut.-Col. A. F. Mockler-Ferryman, a British soldier. With the publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the extremities with the odd mark to the boards. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper and title page. Good. book.