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Memoirs and Correspondence of Field Marshall Viscount Combermere G.C.B., etc. From His Family Papers; (in Two Volumes)
by Mary, Viscountess Combermere, and W,W, Knollys
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Full calf binding with gilt along edges and on spine. Five raised bands. Front board of Volume 1 is detached and top of spine has short tears. Binding is firm. Front board of Volume 2 is loosening but the binding is tight. Both volumes are clean and unfoxed, with marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece engraving of Combermere in Volume I and Stapleton Cotton (Viscount Combermere) as a young man in Volume 2. Tissue guards intact. Title page in each volume has small engraving. Heraldic bookplate affixed to front pastedown page of both volumes (Deo Adjuvante, with the name James Jones). Laid in is a new color postcard of Combermere. A handsome set, with problem front boards. 8vo. 403 pp. Vol. 1; 434 pp. Vol. 2. From the estate of Donald Skinner, Canadian military collector extraordinaire.
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- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95518
- Title
- Memoirs and Correspondence of Field Marshall Viscount Combermere G.C.B., etc. From His Family Papers; (in Two Volumes)
- Author
- Mary, Viscountess Combermere, and W,W, Knollys
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hurst and Blackett
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1866
- Keywords
- History; military history; British army
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Calf
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- Edges
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Gilt
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- New
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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