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General Regulations & Orders for the Army.
Adjutant General's Office, Horse Guards, 12th August 1811. To Which Are Added such Regulations as have been issued to the 1st January 1816. Facsimile reprint, xxiv+441pp. VG in dw. Muller.
1970
#64168
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Rexine binding, VG in sl. chipped dw. See illustration on our website.
£15
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[FITZMAURICE (Gerald)]
Biographical Sketch of Major General John Fitzmaurice K.H.
Written for private circulation. 1908. The Centenary of the Formation of the 95th Rifle Corps now The Rifle Brigade. 1st Ed., 102pp., portrait frontis., fldg. map. Anghiari (Italy), Tiber Printing Press.
1908
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John George Fitzmaurice served with the 3rd Bn. 95th Rifles in the Peninsular, was present at numerous engagements & had his leg broken at Badajoz. Was also at Waterloo with the 1st Bn. where he was again wounded. Includes some 45pp. relating to his services in the Peninsular, including transcriptions of various letters, & a short account of his participation at Waterloo. Not particularly revealing but a very rare memoir. Just one copy on Library Hub (formerly COPAC), at Oxford University, is recorded by Victor Sutcliffe (Sandler Collection) but not Brett-James (Life in Wellington's Army bibliography). Orig. black & green cloth, sp. panel, corners & eps sympathetically renewed, VG thus, presumably printed in a very small edition & this copy with compiler's inscription: "To Nina Clifford great great granddaughter of John of Duagh is presented by the author, Gerald Fitzmaurice great grandson of John of Duagh this memoir of John Fitzmaurice grandson of John of Duagh. March 1914." With bound-in later ink notes re family history & recording the death of Nina Clifford & subsequent presentation of this copy to Col. L. Fitzmaurice, & another, later, note on family history. See illustrations on our website.
£265
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ALGER (John Goldworth)
Napoleon's British Visitors & Captives 1801-1815.
1st Ed., viii+342pp. Constable.
1904
#65013
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An account of various interested visitor's to "The Corsican's" court, the experiences of English PoWs during the period, &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, near fine with armorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox. See illustration on our website.
£45
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BATTY (Capt. Robert)
Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army, in the Western Pyrenees & South of France, in the Years 1813-1814, under FM The Duke of Wellington.
Facsimile reprint of 1823 1st Ed., xx+185pp., plates, fldg. hand-coloured map. Ken Trotman.
1983
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No. 40 of limited edition of 250 copies, high quality facsimile edition of classic work on later stages of the war in the Peninsula. VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£50
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BOYLE (Col. G.E.) Comp.
The Rifle Brigade Century: An Alphabetical List of The Officers of the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) (Regular Battalions) from 1800 to 1905.
1st Ed., xvi+205pp. Clowes & Sons.
1905
#65050
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Contains full career details & medal entitlements of officers, inc. quartermasters, paymasters, surgeons attached &c. Orig. rifle green cloth, silver gilt, VG with tipped-in letter from the compiler to "Dear Buller" referring to his services &c. Boyle commanded the 4th Bn. at one period. See illustration on our website.
£75
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COLE (Maud Lowry) & GWYNN (Stephen)
Memoirs of Sir Lowry Cole.
1st Ed., viii+263pp., 4 portraits. Macmillan.
1934
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Gen. Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, commanding 4th Div. in the Peninsula; much material drawn from previously unpublished family papers. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£60
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COOPER (John Spencer. Late Sgt. in the 7th R. Fusiliers)
Rough Notes of Seven Campaigns in Portugal, Spain, France & America during the Years 1809-10-11-12-13-14-15.
2nd Ed., vii+160pp. Carlisle: George Coward.
1914
#65032
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Rare locally printed memoir of Peninsular War (inc. Talavera, Almeida, Bussaco, Albuhera, Pyrenees &c.) & New Orleans 1815, containing appealing & atmospheric reminiscences of army life & campaigns. Orig. red cloth, gilt, with college bookplate to ffep, VG thus. The original edition of 1869 was printed by the same Carlisle printer (& is very rare): this edition includes "a few small amendments in regard to the numbering of chapters & spelling of names," brief notes on the author &, more significantly, a portrait frontis. of him in later life wearing his Peninsula Medal. See illustration on our website.
£95
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DONALDSON (Capt. J.W.E.) & BECKE (Capt. A.F.)
Waterloo.
1st Ed., 79pp., fldg. map in end-pocket & 2 fldg. plans bound-in. Rees.
1907
#65014
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Useful & lucid account. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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GURWOOD (Lt.-Col. J.) Ed.
Selections from the Dispatches & General Orders of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington.
1st Ed., xliv+939pp. Murray.
1841
#63734
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Important selection, including campaigns in India, Peninsular War, Waterloo campaign, &c., with an abstract of Wellington's services. Orig. red cloth, blindstamped & gilt, joints worn, cloth torn at head of sp., generally sound & VG thus with contemp. ink ownership inscrip. "Lieutt. Genl. Hopkins." See illustration on our website.
£45
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HOPKIN (David M.)
Soldier & Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870.
1st Ed., xiii+394pp., 55 illus. VG in dw. Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press.
2003
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Most absorbing study of the perception of the soldiery (mostly conscript) during the period: "In the state-sponsored rituals of conscription, & the popular imagery aimed at adolescent males, the army was portrayed as a place where young men could indulge in adventure & idleness, far away from parental & communal restraints. It was the lure of personal liberty, rather than the rhetoric of patriotic duty, that made conscription palatable for peasants..." Hardbackl edition, VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£20
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