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Military History. Gneisenau (General Count, translator), The Life and Campaigns of Field-Marshal Prince Blücher, first edition thus, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1815, portrait frontispiece, folding and full-page maps, contemporary quarter-roan gilt over marbled boards, 8vo; Maxwell (Herbert), The Life of Wellington, two volume set, fourth edition, London: Sampson Low, 1900, plates, original publisher's red cloth gilt, top edges gilt, 8vo; The Battle of Waterloo, fourth edition, London: J. Booth and T. Egerton, 1815, stained folding plates, original publisher's boards, split and loose, uncut, 8vo; Seeley's Life and Times of Stein, three volume set, first edition, Cambridge University Press, 1878, plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Napier's Peninsular War, six volume set, Chandos Classics, n.d. [c. 1900], original publisher's cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, 8vo; Oman's Peninsular War, seven volume set, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902-30, ex-library copies, red cloth, wear, 8vo; Alison's History of Europe, 1774-1815, twenty volume set, seventh edition, 1847-48, original publisher's cloth, wear, uncut, 8vo; Johnston (Alex. Keith), Atlas to Alison's History of Europe, Library Edition, 1875, original publisher's cloth, rebacked, later endpapers, oblong 4to; Wilson (General Sir Robert), Narrative Of Events during the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the Retreat of the French Army 1812, London: John Murray, 1860, contemporary quarter-calf, worn and perished, but holding, 8vo; A Report from the Committee, Appointed to Consider The State of His Majesty's Land Forces and Marines, [...], with an appendix, s.l, [London]: s.n., 1746, later marbled wrappers, folio; Cobbett's Political Register, Volume VI only: July to Decemeber, 1804, contemporary russia over papered boards, split, perished spine, 8vo; etc., (54)
Provenance: 4th: The Reverend Thomas Worsley (1797-1885), Master of Downing College, Cambridge; crested bookplates to pastedown.
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