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THE LIFE OF COLIN CAMPBELL, LORD CLYDE. ILLUSTRATED BY EXTRACTS FROM HIS DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE. 2 VOLUME SET.
de Shadwell, Lieut.-General, C.B. (Lawrence Shadwell.)
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/No Dust Jackets
- Librería
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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Edinburgh / London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881. [xviii], 457 pp, [xi], 489 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H) - 2 volume set, rebound in red buckram with gilt lettering on spines, new endpapers. Tissue-covered frontispiece portrait, 16 maps/battle plans including: 8 fold-outs (General Map of India at rear of volume I), 6 full page and 2 small maps in text - all present. The military career of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792-1863) from his participation in the Peninsular War, through the First Opium War, Second Anglo-Sikh War, Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. Volume I has a lean to the spine, a faint water stain at the top edge of the frontispiece as well as some very light soiling, a previous owner's initials in ink at the bottom of the title page, one or two pages have some minor fore-edge damage, two light separations between page gatherings but pages are holding firmly in the binding, the map at the rear of the book has a few tears repaired with old tape - there is also scattered foxing, very light browning in the margins of the pages and to the edges of the text block, small light to moderate foxing mark in the margin of some pages, a few pages with a narrow piece missing at the fore-edge due to rough opening of the page gatherings, some loss of paper of the headband. Volume II has some pages with light fore-edge wrinkling, one page with a corner crease, two fold-out maps with some archivally taped fold tears, heavy browning at the very top edge of page leaf 313/314, very light browning in the page margins and light browning to the edges of the text block. . Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover (Rebound). Very Good/No Dust Jackets.
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- Librería
- Capricorn Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 30844
- Título
- THE LIFE OF COLIN CAMPBELL, LORD CLYDE. ILLUSTRATED BY EXTRACTS FROM HIS DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE. 2 VOLUME SET.
- Autor
- Shadwell, Lieut.-General, C.B. (Lawrence Shadwell.)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jackets
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- Edinburgh / London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1881
- Palabras clave
- Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde, Lord Clyde, Peninsular War, Vimiero, Vitoria, First Opium War, Second Anglo-Sikh War, Crimean War, Indian Mutiny, India, Victorian Wars, China, India, Chusan, Mooltan, Sadoolapore, Chillianwala, Goojrat, Sikh Army, Peshawar, P
- Catálogos del vendedor
- BRITISH HISTORY; Military - Victorian Era; Military - British: General;
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- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Spine
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Title Page
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- Text Block
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- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
