Crimea War (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Edinburgh Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Condition: Very Good. Broadsheet newspaper, 12 pages. Tanning to the edges and the folded line across the centre, in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CRIMEA and GEORGIA.

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. 1 page, image size 22 x 32 cms approx. Note; this is an original item separated from the larger volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: Page size 26 x 38 cms. Category: Illustrated Times; PRINTS : Historic News; Unframed Prints : Old. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

According to Russell's entry in the Oxford DNB, while reporting on the Civil War, he was described by one American newspaper as 'the most famous newspaper correspondent the world has ever seen'. The inscription on his memorial in St Paul's Cathedral calls him ''the first and greatest of War Correspondents'. He coined the phrase 'thin red line', was instrumental in the sending of Florence Nightingale to the Crimea, and is said to have written the report that inspired Tennyson to write 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. The recipient was the proprietor of the Hotel and Restaurant Henry IV, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (which, according to an advertisement in Galignani's 'New Paris Guide for 1879', was 'The only Hotel on the Terrace. / Highly recommended, and old-established / Louis XIV. was born in this House on the 5th Sept. 1638.'). The present item is 2pp, 12mo. In fair condition, aged and worn, with thin strip of glue from mount along the gutter. Folded twice. Signed 'W H Russell'. He enquires after 'un petit apartment libre pour le lundi ou mardi en cas de besoin', at a price 'convenable à ma fortune'. He describes the specifications he requires before noting that M. de Blonetz ma dit ce que j'ai entendu avec plaisir que vous avez garde des souvenirs aimables de moi depuis cet temp terrible 70. 71'. In a postscript he expresses anxiety that 'il y aura une grande foule à St Germain le lundi pour les courses'. It may be that Russell attended the racing with the future King Edward VII: he was, as the Oxford DNB states, 'a member of the Prince of Wales's circle, though his relationship with the prince fluctuated, and he deplored the depravity and obscenity of some of his set'.…

Full leather. Condition: Very good. Fourth Edition. Octavo, vi, [2], 312pp. Full brown tree calf, gilt floral border on covers. Title stamped in gilt over red leather spine label, raised bands with decorative gilt compartments. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers with turn-ins stamped in blind and gilt-hatched board edges. Board edges, spine and joints rubbed, spine tips lightly chipped. Joints partly split, but boards holding firmly. Faint foxing to flyleaves and title page. No marks or notations to text. Bound by R. Ingalton Drake of Eton. Complete with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard, three additional portraits with tissue guards, and five full-page maps. Inscription on front flyleaf: "John Baskervyle-Glegg: from Hubert Brinton. / School Work. Division xxij / Summer Half. 1892. Eton." Printed sheet attached to verso of front free endpaper containing a list of mathematics instructors and their students at Eton College during the summer of 1892. An attractive example of this military campaign history, written by an artillery officer who served in the Crimean War. Hubert Brinton (1863-1941) was an Assistant Master of Classics at Eton College from 1887-1924. The recipient of this book, John Baskervyle-Glegg (1876-1954) of Withington Hall, Cheshire, was educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. He served as a lieutenant in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry and was Justice of the Peace of Cheshire. Fourth edition of The War in the Crimea by General Sir Edward Hamley. (illustrator).…

Wrench was the son of a clergyman, and well connected, being presented to the Prince of Wales and staying at Chatsworth in his old age. His obituary in the British Medical Journal (27 April 1812), describes how he went out to the Crimea in 1854. 'He had been gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 34th Regiment in November, and joined it on its arrival in the Crimea. He served during the terrible winter of that year, and was present at the capture of the quarries, the successful assault on the Redan of June 18th, and the final capture of Sebastopol on September 8th, 1855. He was mentioned in despatches, and received the Crimean medal and clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.' Wrench's own account of his experiences in the Crimea (Item One below) entirely unpublished is a personal one, vividly-written and full of detail. It does not appear to be present in the collection of his family papers at Nottingham University Library. ONE: Manuscript consisting of 'Events in 1855' (4pp) and '1856 (12pp), making a total of 16pp., 8vo, on twelve leaves, attached with a stud. In good condition, on aged and dogeared paper. The first page of the 1855 manuscript is headed '12 [sic] Pages in this Year', but comprises four numbered pages. The beginning of account sets the scene and gives an indication of the level of detail: 'The 1st Janry found me doing duty with the 28th Foot or Slashers in the 3rd. Divt of the army before Sebastopol having landed at Balaclava from the Ship "Queen of the South" on the 20th. Nov. 1854. On the 6th July I was ordered to do duty with the 50th. Foot but as I did not wish to move (the weather being very bad and my tent being as comfortable, or rather as little uncomfortable as it could be made) except to join my own Regt. the 34th. to which I had been gazetted on the 1st. of December 1854. I applied to be sent to it and was ordered to join which I did on 9th of Janry.' The account is made up from diary entries, and is none the less vivid and interesting for that: 'On the following morning a wounded Russian named Alexo was brought into our Hospital and we amputated his leg he did really well and was eventually exchanged at Odessa. Poor Jordan's death threw a great damp on the Regiment as he was the first Officer we had had killed. On the 9th. of April being Easter Monday the 2nd. Bombardment took place. It was a fearfully wet windy day so that no one was able to go out to see what damage was done. On the 10th. I was on trenches and the noise was terrific, but nothing to what I have since heard. I had a very narrow escape from a round shot which hopped over the parapet close to where I was.' In June, 'after 68 hours bombardment an assault was made on the Quarries by ourselves [.] I did not go down till about 8 with Robinson Scott & Peel and 100 men. We were marching about the Trenches half the night and were finally sent to the middle ravine just below Mamelon. The scene there was most horrible the ground being strewn with dead & wounded. English French & Russians. One poor Russian boy was dragged up by two Zouaves but fainted just opposite to where we were lying. I got a light and found he was shot through the belly and that nothing could be done for him. I gave him some water and he lie [sic] by me some time but died before morning. I got an amulet off his neck & his cap pouch which I sent home'. The 1856 account begins in dramatic style: 'The first entry in this Diary relates to the explosion which took place within the British Lines during the Siege of Sebastopol. | Feb 3rd. I was not many hundred yards from this explosion when it took place & will here relate now (Janry 1900) my recollection of it. It took place in Novr. or Decr. 1855. I had just come in from a ride & had given my horse to my Batman when I noticed a vast cloud of smoke shoot up from the Right Siege train an open air arsenal about 500 yds from my house - a tremendous noise of explosion followed & knowing that there would be a rain of missiles from above to fall immediately I jumped under my doorway - hoping the strong lintel would protect me [.] a shower of fragments fell around me rattling on my iron roof - and wounding many men in the Regiment - 70 men were killed by the explosion some over half a mile off. The artillery horses were passing in front of my door to water & stampeded hurting several men in their rush. Both my horse and my dog bolted. I got the horse back in a few hours - but my dog taken [sic] a few weeks before out of Sebastopol returned to her old home and was found there weeks afterwards (I brought her to England) My house that I had just finished building myself did not sustain much damage. [.]' The account continues, packed with incident. At one point he writes: 'I had written the above in 1859 and continue it forty one years after November 4 1900. The events & fights of May 1856 being written so legibly in my brain that I can read much of what we did & said. Alas all the actors except myself are passed away. My notice has been called to the excursion by reading an Illustrated article in a magazine named "Travel" in which Dr. Hy. Lansell has been describing a tour taken last year over the same ground - so little altered from what I saw in 1856 that his description would do for mine'. The diary concludes in fine style. On 2 May 1856 he goes to Yalta, where he finds 'the daughters of the English Clerk of the Works of Prince W's Palace were keeping the Hotel, a very rough primitive structure low stone built rooms with a long rough wooden verandah overlooking the lovely Bay - We enjoyed an excellent dinner of Turbot & Oyster Sauce, & a bottle of excellent local wine like Hock - as we returned we went over the Emperor's Villa Orianda [.] One day when I remember seeing for the first time a Persian (horizontal) Water Wheel in a very pretty village embosomed in Walnut Trees where also I bought an embroidered linen neck scarf which I still possess - On another occasion I accompanied Best & C.…

4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Evidently incomplete: the first part only of a long letter. Begins: 'My dear Maclean | I have it not in my heart to put forward an excuse for very long silence, beyond an amount of employment the like of which I have never had thrown upon me before, for many years.' He hopes to see him, but leaves that night 'for the North on a tour of inspection'. He describes his movements: 'I go first to Keir near Dumblane [sic] for a couple of days from thence to Fort George where I may be detained by my duties for two days, and from there back to Keir from which point I shall visit the Depôts, and Depôt Battns. within reach.' After discussing possible arrangements for a visit he writes: 'I am ordered to hasten back from the North to inspect the Depot Battns. just formed in England and in Jersey before the Winter is farther advanced'. He 'took Mr. Rolston to the Horse Guards. - I found that no influence or interest could obtain the enrolment of his name on the list of Candidates for a Commission by purchase, he being passed the age of 18 before he made his application. The Gentleman to whom I presented him, is a very old friend of mine. As I told him how much interested I was in behalf of your Young friend he suggested that Mrs. Rolston should apply for a Commission by purchase in a Colonial Corps of which there are 5'. He lists the corps, observing of the West Indies that it is a place 'in which you and I passed so many Years of our life', and 'not always unhealthy'. 'By a sacrifice of a little money an exchange could be effected without much difficulty into a Regt. of the Line'. The final page concludes: 'However your Young friend did not deem it advisable to make application for an appt. to any of these Corps'.…

An excellent letter, casting light on the relationship between the editor of The Times and a senior correspondent. See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. Brackenbury's states that 'During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 Brackenbury was the Times correspondent with the Austrian army, and was at the battle of Königgrätz (Sadowa) riding with Benedek under fire at Chlum and reported the naval battle of Lissa. He was the Times correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, accompanying Prince Frederick Charles in the Le Mans campaign; and in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, when he crossed the Balkans with Count Gourko.' 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In very good condition, folded twice. Thin strip from windowpane mount adhering to edges in not unpleasing way. Signed 'C. B. Brackenbury' and addressed to 'My dear Delane'. The letter begins: 'Captain Clarke brought me today the last number of his translation of the German War of 1870-71. He is sending you a copy and I hope you will find some one to review it in my place.' Brackenbury has himself translated 'the Report of the Committee on French Army re organization, together with the law as proposed and passed', which the War Office is publishing. 'You shall have the first copy issued which I will mark myself.' In his opinion a great deal of the report 'bears upon much more than French re-organization'. He will be very glad if Delane finds it 'worth a notice'. He continues: 'Though I may not write more on military affairs I don't see why I should not review other books if you can find any for me. Even if you have no space for them at present the reviews might stand over till the interest of the new parliament is over.' It seems to him 'unnatural to have no work in hand for you'. The postscript reads: 'They say that my review of Clarke's first number started the Intelligence Department.'.…

Condition: Very good condition. A wonderful watercolor of a British cavalry officer at the siege of Sevastopol, signed "J.H." at the lower right. Perhaps the original study for the finished painting by Richard Simkin (stance and details are identical to Simkin's image britishcavalryregiments.com/30-10h/10h5.jpg), depicting the officer from the back, turning in the saddle to his right, his uniform and the horse's tack are painted in lavish and painstaking detail, down to the studs on the bridle. This artwork predates Simkin's work. On the outbreak of war in the Crimea (1854-56), the 10th Hussars left India and traveled to the Black Sea, but luckily were not part of Cardigan's charge of the Light Brigade, avoiding the battle of Balaclava which took place in October of 1854. The regiment was heavily involved in the siege of Sevastopol and the triumphant battles of Eupatoria and Kerch. The Regiment returned to England in 1856, and in 1863 the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars again had a Prince of Wales as their colonel (this was Prince Edward, later King Edward VII). The 10th Hussars are credited with introducing polo to England having learned it in India, when a captain in the 10th Hussars observed a match and immediately formed a team with his fellow officers. 9 3/4 x 11 3/4". Overall tanned, slight water mark in area above the soldier's head. Painted on card stock.…