Williams Oakley Ed (16 results)

Condition: New. Dwyer, Kieron; Oakley, Bill (illustrator).

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. The memoirs of Lieut-Gen (later Maj-Gen.) Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Funck of the Saxon army, allies of Napoleon during the wars of the Fourth and Fifth Coalitions. Includes 12*b/w illustrations. xxiii+303pp. Red cloth boards rubbed to extremities. Faded to spine and boards towards spine. Water damage to cloth of lower board, this has not affected the text.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Includes 12*b/w illustrations. xxiv, 306pp. Red cloth boards with light wear to extremities. Several small spots to boards. Two 0.5cm closed cuts to the head of the spine cloth. Dust spotting to page edges. Previous owners name, dated 1934, to the free endpaper. Light foxing to fore-page margins of various pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 22cm, xxiii,303p., with 12 plates, preliminaries lightly foxed, blue cloth with gilt spine titles, faded spine.

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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first edition English translation of the memoirs of Ferdinand von Funck, taken from the previously unpublished Saxon Archives, with twelve illustrated plates. First Edition, uncommon.Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven other illustrated plates.This is the English translation of the memoirs of Ferdinand von Funck, written between 1807 and 1809. At this time, von Funck was the Lieutenant-General in the Saxon Army and was also the Adjutant-General to the King of Saxony. He also offered an impressive description of Saxony alongside the Napoleonic Wars.Edited and translated by Oakley Williams.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light fading to spine, with minimal bumping to extremities. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Offsetting to rear endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright throughout, with some spotting to the margins and light foxing to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first English edition of the memoirs of Ferdinand Von Funck, edited by Oakley Williams. Complete with twelve monochrome plates. The full title reads: 'In the Wake of Napoleon. Being the Memoirs (1807-1809) of Ferdinand Von Funck, Lieutenant-General in the Saxon Army and Adjutant-General to the King of Saxony. From the Hitherto Unpublished Mss in the Saxon Archives, Edited and Selected From the German Version by Oakley Williams' Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Funck was a Saxon general-lieutenant who fought against, and then alongside, Napoleon. Rather that setting the work out chronologically, Funck chose to write his memoirs as a series of individual essays. In a red cloth binding. Externally, smart, with some wear to the extremities and light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Bookplate of Thomas Lord to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with some spotting, heavier to the first and last few pages and the foredge. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

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Condition: New.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black cl., black lettering on paper label on backstr. Front hinge torn 1 1/2" at top, corners sl. bumped. 1/4" spot on front cover. Front interior hinge cracking. Library bookplate front pastedown. Frontis. Illus. Xi, 308pp. incl. index. Ex-lib.