Edwards's Military Catalogue

6657 NAPOLEON. Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoléon, par ANTOINE V. ARNAULT. illustrated after designs of French Artists, 2 vols. imperial folio, half-morocco. Paris, 1826

6658

This copy contains 133 plates.

£14

L'Imperatore Napoleone Quadrie e Racconti Battaglie e Delle Azioni Particolari......90 plates, 12mo, half-calf.

Florence, 1837 15s

6660 NASSAU. Un Paladin au XVIIIe Siècle. Le Prince Charles de Nassau-Siegen, par le MARquis d'Aragon, 8vo, sewed. Paris,

1893

Prince Charles accompanied de Bougainville in his Voyage around the World 1766-69, was at the Siege of Gibraltar 1784, in Catherine's Wars with the Turks, Siege of Oczakoff, Swedish Campaigns 1789 and 1790, against Poland, &c. 6661 NORMAN. Memoirs of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman, by

Sir WM. LEE-WARNER, portraits and maps, 8vo, cloth. 1908 118 In the Mutiny Sir Henry Norman served through the Siege of Delhi, at the Relief of Lucknow and of Cawnpore; against the Gwalior Contingent at the Capture of Lucknow, in Rohilkund and in the Oude Campaign. He subsequently filled various official positions as Colonial Governor, &c.

6663 SPROT. Incidents and Anecdotes in the Life of Lieut.-General J. Sprot, portraits and illustrations, 2 vols. 8vo, cloth gilt. 1906-7. (For private circulation only.)

Narrative of Services with the 83rd in India (1849-60) as Lieut. and Captain through the Mutiny, &c., Gen. Sprot afterwards commanded the 91st for seven years; was A.A. and A.Q.M.G. for Scotland; and Commander 31st Surrey (South London) Brigade, five years. The Appendices include papers on Recruiting and forming Reserves, Short Service and Division Depots; and on Night-Attacks. 6661 STEVENSON. A Soldier in Time of War; Military Life of JOHN STEVENSON, of the B. and F. Temperance Society, Wesleyan Class Leader, 21 Years in the 3rd Foot Guards, 1793-1815, 12mo, cloth. 1841

Service in the Netherlands and under the Duke of York 1794, in Ireland 1798, Holland 1799, Egypt 1801, Hanover 1806, Copenhagen, &c., 1807, Portugal 1808, Holland 1809-11, Holland 1813.

6665 turennE. Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne, with Others, by A. WILLIAMSON, Brig.-General, 12mo, calf. 1740

6666

Marshal Turenne, by the Author of "A Life of Sir Kenelm Digby," illustrations, portraits, and plans, 8vo, cloth. 1907 88 Battles of Fribourg, Mariendal, Nordlinghen, d'Arras, Valenciennes, Sintzheim, d'Ensheim, Turckeim.

6668 VANDELEUR. Lt.-Col. F. S. Seymour Vandeleur, Scots Guards and Irish Guards, the Story of a British Officer, with a General Description of his Campaigns, by Col. F. J. MAXSE, Coldstream Guards, with 9 maps, 14 portraits, and other coloured plates by Vico Jungmann, royal 8vo, cloth. 1905

Record of Service in Somaliland, Uganda, Nigeria, Egyptain Soudan. 6669 VERTOT (l'Abbé de) The History of the Knights of Malta, English translation, with 71 heads of the Great Masters, engraved by French engravers, maps and plans, 2 vols. folio, calf. 1728.

See also Malta, pp. 238, 302, 643.

£3

6670 WELLINGTON'S CAMPAIGNS. Twenty-Four Coloured Plates, each 8 in. by 6 in. [1817 ?] £5 Battles of Assye, Mallavelly, and Storming of Seringapatam; Battles of Vimeira, Roleia, Oporto, Talavera, Busaco, Barrosa, Taking of Cuidad Rodrijo, Badajos (two plates), Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees (two plates, Sauroren, Crossing the Bidasson, Toulouse (two plates), Waterloo (two plates), Meeting of Wellington and Blucher, Signing the Treaty of Peace at Vienna.

6671

Poetical Illustrations of the Achievements of the Duke of Wellington and his Companions in Arms, Edited by Major GEORGE WEBB DE RENZY, late 42nd Regt., portrait of Lord Fitzroy Somerset [Lord Raglan], 8vo, cloth. Edinburgh, 1852 63 Includes a variety of verse celebrating incidents of Wellington's Battles in India, the Peninsula, Waterloo, and other pieces, original and reprinted-among the latter are Wolfe's Burial of Sir John Moore,' and J. W. Croker's 'Talavera.' 6672 Wellington, his Comrades and Contemporaries, by Major ARTHUR GRIFFITHS, with 23 portraits and other illustrations, 8vo, cloth. 1907

4s 6d Separate chapters are given to Wellington's Comrades-Cotton, Hill, Beresford, Graham, Picton, Craufurd, and Moore.

See also E.I. Military Calendar, vol. iii. pp. 482-501,

"I ordained that the Right of the Warrior should not be Injured, and that the Soldier who had grown in years should not be deprived of his Station or his Wages; and that the Actions of the Soldier should not be suppressed: For Men who sell their Permanent Happiness for Perishable Honour Merit Compensation and are worthy of Reward and Encouragement."-TIMUR'S Institutes.

NAVAL HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

[Continued from pp. 161-221.

6673 SAA. De Navigatione Libri Tres: quibus Mathematicæ disciplinæ explicantur; ab JACOBO À SAA Equite Lusitano nuper in lucem editi., diagrams, 12mo, morocco, gilt edges. Paris, 1549

£2 6674 NAVIGATION. Manuscript Book of Tables, Traverse, Compass Variations with Rules for Plain, Oblique, and Mercator Sailing, Astronomical Tables, the Constellations, &c., with coloured and other diagrams (one or two leaves torn), one volume, folio, original calf binding, 17th Century

£1 4s

6675 COULSON'S Mariners New Calendar of Arithmetic and Geometry with Tables of the Sun and Stars, Latitudes and Longitudes, Use of the Quadrant, Forestaff, and Nocturnal, Sailing Directions, &c., adjusted to the New Style, by Wm. Mountaine, sm. 4to, cf. 1768 14s 6676 BLANCKLEY. A Naval Expositor, of Words and Terms belonging to Parts of a Ship, Rigging, Fitting; also Stores, Titles of Officers, &c., by THOMAS RILEY BLANCKLEY, engraved and printed, sm. 4to, half-morocco. 1750

128

6677 HERVEY (Frederic) and others, The History of Great Britain from the Earliest Times to 1779, with numerous copperplate portraits and maps, 5 vols. 8vo, half-calf. 1779

£1 58

This work describes the progress of British Sea Power, her Foreign Conquests, and Growth of her Colonies, particularly during the wars of the Eighteenth Century -Wars in Canada, United States, in Indian Ocean, West indies, &c.

6678 PAKENHAM'S (Capt. Edward) Invention of a Substitute for a Lost Rudder; also Method of Restoring the Masts of Ships, 3 plates, 8vo, half-calf. 1793

38 6679 A SHORT ACCOUNT of the Naval Actions of the Last War, with Observations on the Discipline and Hints for the Improvement of the British Navy, by an Officer, 2nd edit., 8vo (pp. viii-147), half-calf. 1790

16s

6681 LIVES of Illustrious Seamen, including several Hundred Characters, Alphabetically Arranged, with 12 portraits, 18mo, calf. 1803 7s SHIPWRECKS: a Series of Narratives, each 28 pp., with folding plate, 12mo, half-calf, gilt (Tegg). 1806

6685 Wreck of the "St. Lawrence," Quebec to New York, Account of Wm. Prenties, 1780

6686 Wreck of the "Phoenix" off Cuba, 1780; also Pirard de Laval on the Maldives, 1601.

6687 Loss of the " Ville de Paris," captured by Rodney 1782; Engagement between H.M.S." Amethyst" and the French "La Thetis," 1808

6688 Loss of the "Halse well" on the Isle of Purbeck, 1786

6689 Loss of the "Bounty," 1789, and Adventures of the Mutineers 6690 Adventures of Capt. Woodard among the Malays, 1791

SHIPWRECKS (continued)—

6691 Wreck of H.M.S." Sceptre" in Table Bay, 1799, &c.

6692 Loss of the "Duke of Abergavenny," off Portland Bill, 1805, &c.

6693 Loss of the "Duke of Cumberland," Coast of Antigua, 1804, &c. 6694 Capture of the "General Washington," Capt. Boyle, by Barbary Corsairs 6695 Loss of the E. I. Co.'s Ship Hindostan," off Margate, 1803, &c. 6696 Shipwreck of Capt. Donald Campbell and Imprisonment by Hyder Ali's Troops, 1782

6697

6698

Narrative of the Loss of H.M.S. "Proserpine," James Wallace, Captain, compiled by JOHN WRIGHT, 1st Lieutenant, 8vo, halfmorocco, 1799 6s

Narrative of a Passage from Bombay to England, describing the Author's Shipwreck in the "Nautilus" in the Red Sea, Journies Across the Nubian Desert, &c., by Capt. W. BOURCHIER, R.N., 12mo, cloth. 1834

38 6d

6699 WATKINS (Frederick) The Young Naval Hero: Hints on Educating Young Gentlemen for H.M. Navy, 12mo, pp. 48. 1807 3s 6701 Moore (John, M.D.) The Post-Captain; or, the Wooden Walls Well Manned, comprehending a View of Naval Society and Manners, fifth edition, 12mo, boards. 1811

6702 CAMPBELL'S Lives of the British Admirals, containing an Accurate Naval History from the Earliest Periods, continued to 1780 by Dr. BERKENHOUT and Mr. REDHEAD YORKE, with Supplementary Chapters (bringing down the History to 1816), and Biographies by WM. STEVENSON, eight portraits, 8 vols. 8vo, half-calf. 1812-17 £1 10s Special biographies are inserted between the historical chapters of John Cabot, Sir Edward Howard, Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton, Sebastian Cabot, Willoughby, Howard of Effingham, Gilbert, J. Hawkins, Drake, Cavendish, Dudley, Raleigh, Mansel, Monson, Blake, Monk, Sandwich (Montagu), Prince Rupert, Lawson, Keinpthorpe, Ayscue, Spragge, Legge (Dartmouth), Berry, Herbert (Torrington), Benbow, Delaval, Cloudesley Shovel, Rooke, Churchill, Sir D. Mitchell, Dampier, Leake, Byng (Torrington), the Norrises, Berkleys, Wager, Vernon, Barnett, John Byng, Anson, Boscawen, Hawke and Byron.

Prefixed is Kippis's 'Life' of Dr. Campbell; Vols. VI., VII., and VIII. were edited by W. Stevenson.

The portraits are those of Benbow, Cloudesley Shovel, Montague, Barrington, Hawke, Boscawen, Howe and Nelson.

6703 LOCKER. The Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital, Twenty Biographies, with 20 plates, royal 8vo, half-morocco gilt. 1831 £1

See L.P. 4to edition, p. 202.

6705 FORDYCE. Outlines of Naval Routine, by Lieut. Alex. DINGWALL FORDYCE, R. N. plates, royal 8vo, calf. 1837 6s 6706 THE "GREAT EASTERN" Steamship, Tinted Plate, 26 in. by 17 in. proof (Day & Son). Sept. 1857 £1 10s 6707 SINCLAIR. Reminiscences of the Discipline, Customs, and Usages in the Royal Navy, The Good Old Times, 1814-31, by Capt. ARCH. SINCLAIR, R.N., 12mo, half-calf. [1858?]

6708 BENTHAM. Life of Brigadier General Sir Samuel Bentham, formerly Inspector-General of Navy Works and Commissioner of H.M. Navy, by His Widow, 8vo, cloth.

1862

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