Lot 111
Military.- Eliot (Francis Percival) Six Letters on the subject of the Armed Yeomanry..., first collected edition, 1797 & others (7)
Hammer Price: £400
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Military.- Eliot (Francis Percival) Six Letters on the subject of the Armed Yeomanry, addressed to the Rt.Hon.Earl Gower Sutherland, Colonel of the Staffordshire Volunteer Cavalry, first collected edition, engraved frontispiece and 6 folding plates of battle-plans, errata leaf at end, frontispiece lightly foxed and offset on title, engraved bookplate of Sr Henry Hay Makdougall Bart. of Makerstoun, later ink inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, repaired, for the author, 1797 § Touchstone (Tobias, pseud.) The Rise and Progress of the Leeds Yeomanry, first edition, half-title, soiled, modern cloth, Yok, T.Sotheran, 1818 § Manual for Volunteer Corps of Infantry (The), first edition, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary ink signature "W.Wilshere" to head of title & upper cover and some annotations in ink and pencil, original boards, uncut, a little rubbed, rebacked, 1803; and 4 others, military, 8vo (7)
⁂ The second is a rare political essay in verse. The Leeds Yeomanry was a yeomanry troop originally raised at Leeds in September 1817 under the command of Capt. William Beckett, later M.P. for Leeds. Library Hub records only 4 copies (BL, the universities of Liverpool and Strathclyde, and York Minster).
Description
Military.- Eliot (Francis Percival) Six Letters on the subject of the Armed Yeomanry, addressed to the Rt.Hon.Earl Gower Sutherland, Colonel of the Staffordshire Volunteer Cavalry, first collected edition, engraved frontispiece and 6 folding plates of battle-plans, errata leaf at end, frontispiece lightly foxed and offset on title, engraved bookplate of Sr Henry Hay Makdougall Bart. of Makerstoun, later ink inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, repaired, for the author, 1797 § Touchstone (Tobias, pseud.) The Rise and Progress of the Leeds Yeomanry, first edition, half-title, soiled, modern cloth, Yok, T.Sotheran, 1818 § Manual for Volunteer Corps of Infantry (The), first edition, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary ink signature "W.Wilshere" to head of title & upper cover and some annotations in ink and pencil, original boards, uncut, a little rubbed, rebacked, 1803; and 4 others, military, 8vo (7)
⁂ The second is a rare political essay in verse. The Leeds Yeomanry was a yeomanry troop originally raised at Leeds in September 1817 under the command of Capt. William Beckett, later M.P. for Leeds. Library Hub records only 4 copies (BL, the universities of Liverpool and Strathclyde, and York Minster).
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