Publication Date: 1833
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Thirty-seven plates of diagrams, two of them folding. Some foxing and browning, a number of plates hygroscopically damped, but overall very good in contemporary half red calf on grained red cloth boards, a little rubbed, upper board with small mildly damped patch, bookseller's ticket of Morrow of Dublin to the front pastedown. xvi, 336pp. By Authority. Printed and Sold by W. Clowes and Sons, Contemporary ownership inscription of Cha[rle]s T[imothy] Tuckey 41st Foot to the title page, facing on verso of front free endpaper is the ownership inscription of Michael Glover, "London Rifle Brigade Rangers, Feb. 1955" and brief Army List notes in re. Tuckey; "Ens. by purchase, 28 Jun, 1839. Lt. (n.p.) 2 Oct. 1841, Capt. (n.p.) 3 Nov. 1846. Served Afghanistan, 1842".
Publication Date: 1836
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Thirty-six plates, two of them recto and verso of one folding sheet, three pages of music. Some browning of the text, a little offsetting from plates. xvi, 336pp. [bound together with;] DOYLE (Captain John Sidney). The Military Catechism, for the Use of Young Officers and Serjeants of Infantry, Militia Regiments, and Volunteer Corps: adapted to the New System of Drill, as revised by the Board of Officers in 1833. Second Edition. 63pp. Near contemporary brown cloth with leather label to the spine, a little worn. Ownership ink stamp (slightly cropped) of Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford, dated 1840, to the title page.