Lot 83

Peninsula War - [Burghersh, Lord]

£325

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Auction: 16 September 2009 at 12:00 BST

Description

Memoir of the early campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain. London, 1820. 8vo, modern half calf gilt, some light foxing; [Gleig, Rev, G. The Subaltern. London, 1826. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed; [Sherer, Col. G. Moyle] Recollections of the Peninsula. London, 1825. Fourth edition, 8vo, contemporary half black calf gilt, some rubbing to edges, occasional spotting; Schaumann, August Ludolf Friedrich On the road with Wellington. London, 1924. 8vo, frontispiece, colour plates, original cloth gilt, some foxing to endpapers and half title; Ross-Lewin, Harry With "the thirty-second" in the Peninsular and other campaigns. Dublin, 1904. 8vo, original cloth gilt; Oman, C. W.C Wellington's army 1809-1814. London, 1913. Second impression, 8vo, frontispiece, original red cloth gilt; Glover, Richard Peninsular preparation, the reform of the British Army 1795-1809. Cambridge, 1963. 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper; [Boutflower, Charles] The journal of an army surgeon during the Peninsular war. Manchester, 1912. 8vo, one of 100 copies, original red cloth gilt, some staining to upper boards, small wormholes to backstrip, interior clean; Fitchett, W.H. Wellington's men, some soldier autobiographies. London, 1900. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, faded; Paget, Julian Wellington's Peninsular war. London, 1990. 8vo, original cloth, dustwrappper; Glover, Michael Wellington's Peninsular victories. London, 1963. 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper; and 17 others, mainly 20th century, 8vo (28)