Le guide des officiers particuliers en campagne, ou des connaissances militaires necessaires pendant la guerre aux officiers particuliers. Par M de Cessac, capitaine d'infanterie, et de la Societe Royale des sciences et des arts de Metz by CESSAC Jean Gerard Lacuee, comte de - 1785

London: HMSO, 1884. 874 pages. Folio. A soundly bound copy in somewhat worn contemporary half black calf and marbled boards. Exhaustive enquiry into the conduct of the Tel el Kebir campaign. (For more books about the military history of the British in Africa please search my stock using the keyword africa.)

London: Kerby and Endean, 1878. xii and 212 pages. Doublepage colour plate of Pack's orders and honours, 2 folding panoramic sketches. Publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped in black and titled in gold; there is slight wear to the spine and one corner is bumped. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: W P Griffith, 1903 new edition. xx and 349 pages. 8 colour plates of uniform, portrait of Colonel Unett. A fine copy in the publisher's tan calf, spine fully gilt, all edges gilt. A reissue of Kauntze's history first published in 1857 and brought up to date by the addition of 75 pages taken from the regiment's digest of services. The colour plates are new to this edition. (For other British army regimental histories please search my stock using the keyword regimental.)

London: T Egerton, 1812. xi and 277 pages. 30 plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Exceptionally good copy of this British Army drill book explaining battalion movements. (For other books about the Napoleonic Wars please search my stock using the codeword napoleonic.)

London: James Madden, 1851 third edition. xx and 378 pages. Frontispiece portrait in colour, double page map of Sindh, plan of the battle of Meanee, 12 sepia lithographs including 6 views, 2 folding tables. A near fine copy in contemporary half calf gilt. Eastwick believed that the Amirs of Sindh had been betrayed by the British. As a director of the EIC, he was one of Sir Charles Napier's most bitter opponents. (For other books about the military history of the British in India please search my stock using the keyword india.)

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1901 and 1903. 2 volumes. xxi and 525 pages. Frontispiece colour plate of uniform and vignette of bonnets, 27 plates (5 in colour), 11 maps and plans. & xxvii and 415 pages. xxvii and 415 pages. Frontispiece colour plate, 21 plates (1 in colour), various sporrans illustrated in the text, 9 maps and plans. Publisher's green cloth. NB This is a first edition set not the Medici Society reprint. (For other British army regimental histories please search my stock using the keyword regimental.)

London: Arthur L Humphreys, 1911. xxii and 437 pages. 54 plates including 10 in colour, folding map of India. 4to. Publisher's green cloth with the regimental crest in gold on the front board; a handsome copy on the shelf but with noticeable foxing in the text. Almost entirely about the service of the Bombay Europeans under the East India Company and with particularly detailed coverage of the eighteenth century Anglo-French wars. (For other books about the military history of the British in India please search my stock using the keyword india.)

Glasgow: W R M'Phun, 1825 second edition. xii and 222 pages. Modern boards. (For other books about the Napoleonic Wars please search my stock using the keyword napoleonic.)
This is the first of Sergeant Donaldson's three autobiographical volumes which he began writing to finance his university studies when he was head clerk of the Glasgow Military District and determined to become a surgeon. Recollections, which ends at the battle of Sabugal, was first published in 1821. This second edition was a reissue to accompany his second volume (not included here) The War in the Peninsula. A third volume on his peace service in Ireland came out in 1828. Donaldson attained his degree but failed to make a success of life as a surgeon in Oban and went to Paris to resume his studies. He died in 1830 leaving a widow and three surviving children for whose support a combined version of the three books was published by his friends. This portmanteau volume was also titled Recollections of an Eventful Life. It was kept… Read More

London: James Maynard, 1844 new edition. xi and 284 pages. Excellent copy rebound in old style boards.

London: Smith Elder, 1884. xii and 288 pages. Frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with palm tree in gold, spine faded. Misleadingly titled since 'Dishonest John' Colborne was invalided back to Cairo before the Kordofan expedition got under way. Still he was the only survivor of Hicks' staff. In later years he hung around Cairo scratching a living from journalism and was described by Wingate as 'looking like a second-rate Jupiter in reduced circumstances'. (For more books about the military history of the British in Africa please search my stock using the keyword africa.)