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Peninsular   34 Books
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The Dickson Manuscripts: Being Diaries, Letters, Maps, Account Books, With Various Other Papers of the Late Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson, GCB, KCH, KTS, Royal Artillery. Facsimile reprint, 5 Vols., approx. 1000pp. in all, several fldg. maps. Cambridge: Ken Trotman. 1987-1991  #65027
[HLMainPic] Complete series of Dickson's superlative detailed records of the Royal Artillery during the campaigns in the Peninsular, 1809-1813. Reprinted by Ken Trotman in a good quality, limited & numbered edition of 200 copies, of which this is copy no. 12. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £100
AN OFFICER [PORTER (Robert Ker)] Letters from Portugal & Spain, written during the March of the British Troops under Sir John Moore. With a Map of the Route & Appropriate Engravings [from drawings by the author]. 1st Ed., xvi+320pp., 7 plates, fldg. map. Longman et al. 1809.  #56806
[HLMainPic] Rare original edition of the classic account of Corunna campaign. Contemp. qtr. leather, gilt, marbled paper covd. boards, somewhat rubbed & chipped at edges, with a little damage to the marbled sides; frontis. & one other plate have some hand-colouring of no merit. See illustrations on our website.   £225
AN OFFICER [PORTER (Robert Ker)] Letters from Portugal & Spain, written during the March of the British Troops under Sir John Moore. With a Map of the Route & Appropriate Engravings [from drawings by the author]. 1st Ed., xvi+320pp., 6 plates, fldg. map. Longman et al. 1809.  #65072
[HLMainPic] Rare original edition of the classic account of Corunna campaign. Contemp. full tree calf, sympathetically rebacked in calf with red leather lettering label. VG thus. See illustrations on our website.   £165
ATKINSON (C.T.) History of the Royal Dragoons 1661-1934. 1st Ed., xx+547pp., 8 col. & 14 b/w plates, 51 maps & diagrams. Glasgow: Maclehose, For the Regiment. 1934  #59414
[HLMainPic] Including Peninsula & Waterloo campaigns, Crimea, Boer War & WW1 Western Front 1914-18. Roll of officers' services. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG but for ink note on front paste-down: NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY. See illustration on our website.   £120
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  #65079
[HLMainPic] 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
BOUTFLOWER (Charles) The Journal of an Army Surgeon during the Peninsular War. 1st Ed., 182pp., 4to. Manchester: Privately printed for the author's family by the Refuge Printing Dept., Strangeways. 1912  #65038
[HLMainPic] Daily journal of Surgeon to the 40th Ft. in the Peninsula 1809-13. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. It is believed that 100 copies only were printed. See illustration on our website.   £85
CANNON (Richard) Historical Record of the 53rd or The Shropshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1755 & of its subsequent services to 1848. 1st Ed., xxxv+69pp., 3 col. plates. Parker. 1849  #57449
[HLMainPic] Useful early records inc. 1st Bn. in American War of Independence, Low Countries, West Indies, Mahratta Wars &c., 2nd Bn. raised in 1803 & served in the Peninsular War 1809-14 inc. (with much interesting detail). Orig. red cloth, gilt, nice clean copy, VG. See illustration on our website.   £65
CLERK (Rev. Archibald) Memoir of Colonel John Cameron, Fassiefern, K.T.S., Lieutenant-Colonel in the Gordon Highlanders, or 92d Regiment of Foot. 1st Ed., [iii]+108pp., 4to, tinted litho. portrait frontis., 2 other tinted litho. plates (monument & family home). Printed for Sir Duncan Campbell, Bart., of Fassiefern, by Thomas Murray & Son, Glasgow, For Private Circulation. 1858.  #65082
[HLMainPic] Memoir of John Cameron, who was commissioned in the Cameronians in 1793; transferred to the 93rd then to the 92nd as a Captain in 1794; served in Holland, Egypt, Walcheren Expedition then in the Peninsula from 1810-13, in various actions with Hill's 3rd Division; then in the Waterloo campaign, where he was killed in action leading his regiment at Quatre Bras. Detailed account of his services & campaigns, with some extracts from his letters. Near contemp. half morocco gilt sp. with raised bands & lettering labels, USC bookplate (presented by Sir Duncan Cameron, Bart., 1858). Front joint partially split o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
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
[HLMainPic] 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
CRAUFURD (Rev. Alexander H.) General Craufurd & His Light Division. With Many Anecdotes, a Paper & Letters by Sir John Moore...&c. 1st Ed., xiv+298pp., portrait frontis., facsim. letter. Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh. nd 1891  #65000
[HLMainPic] Life & services of Maj.-Gen. Robert Craufurd until mortally wounded at Ciudad Rodrigo in 1812, utilising such private correspondence &c. as was available. Orig. rifle green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £120

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