The Campaign In The Crimea: An Historical Sketch, By…Late Secretary At Kadikoi To The Honorary Agents Of The Crimean Army Fund. Illustrated By Forty Plates, From Drawings Taken On The Spot By William Simpson
by BRACKENBURY, George
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About This Item
London: Paul And Dominic Colnaghi And Co. & Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, 1855., 1855. large 8vo. pp. viii, 112 + 16(ads). 40 tinted lithographed plates (incl. title). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, designed by Digby Wyatt, rebacked with spine mounted, gilt edges (some scattered moderate foxing, lithographed & printed titles dampstained). First Edition of the First Series. A second series was published in 1856. The lithographed plates are reduced versions of those prepared for William Simpson’s The Seat of the War in the East, published in two folio volumes, 1855-56.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
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- D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)
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- Title
- The Campaign In The Crimea: An Historical Sketch, By…Late Secretary At Kadikoi To The Honorary Agents Of The Crimean Army Fund. Illustrated By Forty Plates, From Drawings Taken On The Spot By William Simpson
- Author
- BRACKENBURY, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- London: Paul And Dominic Colnaghi And Co. & Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, 1855.
- Date Published
- 1855
- Keywords
- RUSSIA CRIMEA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Russia;
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