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Reminiscences of a Visit to the Battle Fields of Sedan, Gravelotte, Spicheren, and Worth, and the Bombarded Towns of Thionville, Metz, Bitche, Strasburg Etc
by Appleton, Lewis
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1872 First edition hardcover in small decorated blindstamped boards. An early memoir of the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian war. 119 pp. plus 3 pp. of advertisements. Some full page illustrations. Book measures 6.5" by 4.5". The binding is cracked and quite shaken, but holding. There is wear and soiling to boards, two names and some figures on the rear of the frontispiece. A Fair to Good copy. Photographs on request.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Jackson
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 244572
- Title
- Reminiscences of a Visit to the Battle Fields of Sedan, Gravelotte, Spicheren, and Worth, and the Bombarded Towns of Thionville, Metz, Bitche, Strasburg Etc
- Author
- Appleton, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Publisher
- Simpkin, Marshall & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY FRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR NAPOLEON III ARMY OF CH?LONS NINETEENTH CENTURY WARFARE REMINISCENCES A VISIT TO THE BATTLE FIELDS SEDAN, GRAVELOTTE, SPICHEREN, AND WORTH, BOMBARDED TOWNS THIONVILLE, METZ, BITCHE, STRASBURG ETC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History and the Politics of War;
Terms of Sale
Ken Jackson
Any book may be returned for any reason. If not as described we will pay shipping both ways.
About the Seller
Ken Jackson
Biblio member since 2005
Calgary, Alberta
About Ken Jackson
We are a family business and have been involved in books since 1971.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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