SUPPLEMENTARY DESPATCHES AND MEMORANDA OF FIELD MARSHAL ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON, K.G.
Edited by his son, The Duke of Wellington. [together with] Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.C. . . . (in continuation of the former series). In 21 volumes; various paginations, folding map of India coloured in outline to Volume XIII [Appendix 1794 to 1812]; demy 8vo; uniformly bound in contemporary blue qr. morocco on matching sand-grained cloth boards, spines lettered, decorated and rule in gilt between raised bands, blind ruled borders to boards, some spines lightly faded, some fore-corners lightly bruised, and some spines and boards marked and soiled; marbled endpapers and edges; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpapers, hinge starting at only a couple of points, some scattered foxing and browning throughout, mainly to outer leaves and blanks, a few leaves lightly creased at fore-corners, a couple with small loss to corner; John Murray, London, 1858-1877. First editions. *The Supplementary Despatches are complete in fifteen volumes, including the two appendices covering the period 1793-1816, and the index volume; The Continuation volumes lack two further volumes (having been published in 1878 and 1880. Item #171456
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