On the Road With Wellington. The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Campaigns … Edited and translated by Anthony M. Ludovivi.

London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. 8vo. Original cloth, lettered in gilt, ornamented in blind; pp. xxi, [3, blank], 416, tipped in colour-lithographic plates after the author's watercolours; part of the original dust-jacket (inside front flap) pasted onto front fly-leaf, previous bookseller's pencil notes to endpapers, occasional light spotting or toning in places, a very good copy. First English edition of these delightfully illustrated war diaries. 'Schaumann was born in Hanover and at the age of 16 he was compelled to join the army against his will, but he eventually rose through the ranks to the rank of junior-subaltern, though he left the Hanoverian Army in 1799. When France invaded Hanover in 1803 Schaumann went to England where he was employed as a clerk at a Newcastle firm. In 1807 he decided to move to Russia. He never made it there because heavy storms forced him to take refuge in Goteborg, Sweden. Here too he found a brief employment as a clerk. When the English fleet sailed back to England after its Swedish expedition in 1808 August he boarded one of its ships and was taken to England to start a new career as war commissary in the King's German Legion' (blurb for a modern reprint).