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A collection of publications related to the battle.

1842Best.-Nr. 184599Brussels: H. Gerard c. 1842-38-51. Mixed editions of these early tourist pamphlets containing views of famous sites transcribed inscriptions from war graves and a description of the battle. Jomini's Atlas is scarce; we have only traced one institutional copy Library of Congress. It contains a map of the Battle of Waterloo with a "butterfly" flap showing the progression of the conflict. After the Napoleonic wars Waterloo became a tourist hotspot. Many lithographs of places such as the Lion's Mound the hamlet-turned-field-hospital of Mont-Saint-Jean and the fortified compound of the Château d'Hougoumont were published alongside guides that explained Wellington's and Napoleon's strategies. Gerard contributed a number of works to this movement all of which went through many editions. This copy of Vues is a later edition bound without a title page with plates and a map dated 1842. The first edition is dated approximately 1840. Inscriptions is the second Gerard edition third overall following the first Gerard edition of 1835 and Vanderborght's 1820 edition. Atlas is the first and sole edition. This copy lacks the frontispiece of Napoleon Wellington and Blücher but replaces it with a mounted lithograph of Napoleon on horseback by the Belgian artist Jean-Baptiste Madou. Together 3 works landscape quarto and octavo. Vues: 12 lithographic plates hand-coloured folding lithographic map; Atlas: lithographic frontispiece mounted on front free endpaper 3 hand-coloured folding lithographic maps 1 with flap vignette to title page tables in text; texts in English and French. Vues: original green wrappers front wrapper lettered in black; Inscriptions: original buff wrappers brown string binding front wrapper lettered in black; Atlas: original light green wrappers stitched and glued into wrappers as issued front wrapper lettered in black and decorated with vignette. Previous bookseller's sticker on front free endpaper of Vues incorrectly calling for 13 plates adhesive remains from another sticker. Overall worn and soiled especially at edges spine and folding map of Vues repaired: a good collection. unknown

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WATERLOO - UXBRIDGE, Henry William Paget, first earl ofBiblio.com

Album including two autograph letters signed giving a detailed commentary on the Waterloo campaign; and three from the Duke of Wellington to Sir Alexander Allan concerning East India Company and parliamentary affairs.

1806Best.-Nr. 1547621806-45. They "succeeded to the utmost & overthrew every thing" - Uxbridge and the "heavies" at Waterloo In two vivid deeply detailed letters Lord Uxbridge - later Marquess of Anglesey and commander of allied cavalry at Waterloo - recounts the withdrawal from Quatre Bras and the battle of Waterloo. Written within six months of the engagement they are almost certainly among his earliest surviving narratives. Autograph correspondence from any senior Allied commander is exceptionally rare. Uxbridge 1768-1854 had been Wellington's brilliant and inspirational cavalry commander in the Peninsula. At Waterloo he reached his zenith at a critical juncture when Picton's infantry was under overwhelming pressure. He personally led the British heavy cavalry in a sweeping charge that routed vastly superior French numbers destroyed batteries and took prisoners and eagles though at severe cost in men and horses. Throughout the day he moved ceaselessly between units - losing eight or nine horses - until his right knee was shattered by grapeshot in the battle's final moments. His supposed exchange with Wellington - "By God sir I've lost my leg!" / "By God sir so you have!" - became the most famous anecdote of the field. John Morewood quoted both letters in Waterloo General 2016 and Edward Owen cited them in The Waterloo Papers 1997. Owen identifies the recipient as Colonel James Allan of the 57th Foot formerly Fitzroy Somerset's successor as Wellington's military secretary a veteran of the Cape 1795 Seringapatam 1799 and the Peninsular War. Written from Beaudesert Staffordshire in December 1815 and addressed to "My dear Sir" and earlier "My dear Colonel" the first letter 10 pages 9 December describes Uxbridge's management of the Allied withdrawal from Quatre Bras. After a quiet morning a substantial force of French cavalry and artillery appeared on the left of Quatre Bras advancing from the pursuit of the defeated Prussians. As the Anglo-allied light battalions withdrew Uxbridge organized the cavalry retreat over the Genappe. He gives a sharply observed account of the fighting there where French harassment became so severe that he ordered a spirited attack by the Hussars followed by a decisive charge of the Life Guards which checked the French advance. The second letter 9 pages 18 December covers the day of Waterloo. Uxbridge begins by admitting that to answer Allan fully "wd be writing a history of my own exploits" before setting out the celebrated charge of the heavy cavalry: their simultaneous assault under Sir William Ponsonby and Lord Edward Somerset the overthrow of infantry and cavalry the seizure of two eagles and some 2500 prisoners and the deep penetration into French squares. He notes their over-extension and heavy losses from French artillery then comments on the actions of Dörnberg Colquhoun Grant Arentsschildt Vandeleur who took over after Uxbridge fell and Hussey Vivian. He ends by directing Allan to his aide-de-camp Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars at Stevens's Hotel Bond Street for further detail. The collection includes a note of 17 January 1816 from FitzRoy Somerset - Wellington's military secretary at Waterloo and later Lord Raglan - giving allied numbers engaged and remarking "I hope it will be as useful to you as you are welcome to it". Written shortly after Somerset himself lost an arm at Waterloo it is reproduced in Owen's Waterloo Papers. Three letters from Wellington to his former India colleague Sir Alexander Allan first baronet date from 1806 1814 and 1820 and address James Paull's actions against Richard Wellesley Allan's candidacy for an East India Company directorship which Wellington strongly endorsed and Wellington's request for Allan's influence at India House during the 1820 general election. Two revealing letters from Catherine Duchess of Wellington express her lifelong devotion to her husband ask to keep a portrait lent by Allan and describe her efforts to canvass support for Allan's directorship bid. A brief account of Allan notes his service in the Mysore Wars his published aquatints his parliamentary career and his later role as an East India Company director trusted by Richard Wellesley. The remaining correspondence includes Allan's three political letters of July 1813 advocating Lord Wellesley's alignment with Sidmouth Buckinghamshire and John Sullivan; an 1809 letter from the Marquis de Montalembert describing winter campaigning in the Peninsula; an 1816 note from Sir William Knighton apparently on Allan's mother's death; a friendly letter from "von Kuefstein" in Vienna referring to dispatches to Genoa and to Captain Cotton; a Stuttgart letter of February 1820 on affairs in Württemberg; and two mid-19th-century letters involving John Palfrey Burrell and William Boone seeking access to Waterloo documentation likely addressed to Major Edward Thomas Fitzgerald a wounded Waterloo veteran. Folio 300 x 245 mm contains an archive of 17 letters 55 pp. various sizes letters gummed direct to the leaf or with paper tape. Black half morocco-grain skiver album green pebble-grain cloth boards linen hinged mounting leaves;. Bookplate of Otto Orren Fisher 1881-1961 who after studying medicine at Johns Hopkins became an industrial surgeon for the Hudson Motor Company in Detroit establishing one of the first modern industrial first aid units there. Expected folds and minor toning to most letters generally very good the volume presenting handsomely. The Marquess of Anglesey One-Leg: The Life and Letters of Henry William Paget First Marquess of Anglesey 1768-1854 1991; David Howarth Waterloo: A Near Run Thing 1974. hardcover

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WATERLOO - BARKER, Henry AstonBiblio.com

Description of the Field of Battle and Disposition of the Troops Engaged in the Action Fought on the 18th of June 1815 near Waterloo;

1817Best.-Nr. 195022London: J. Adlard 1817. The biggest box office hit of its day Second edition related to the stunningly popular panorama of the battle installed at Leicester Square from 1815. The key shows among other incidents Wellington on horseback the Life Guards charging a burning ammunition wagon and the Royal Dragoons capturing the eagle of the French 105th Regiment. The pamphlet gives a detailed breakdown of the battle which Barker assures his readers he researched personally in Paris. Henry Barker 1774-1856 was the son of Robert Barker 1739-1806 the inventor of the panorama. His father designed and built a circular rotunda with walls covered by a continuous painting fully immersing visitors in the scene. It housed two paintings simultaneously each on a separate floor such that one could be replaced while the other was still open for public viewing. The spectacle of Waterloo in the public imagination provided Barker with a perfect opportunity for a panorama which opened to instant success. "He charged 1 shilling admittance yet within a few short months he grossed over £10000 some £500000 in modern terms" Summerville p. 27. It then went on tour through England Scotland and the USA. Visitors could buy keys descriptive pamphlets and etchings as souvenirs. The first edition was published in 1816. Octavo pp. 12; single sheet 381 x 317 mm woodblock illustration on one side only edges untrimmed. Original self-wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Single sheet loose. Pamphlet a little toned and dust-soiled: a near-fine copy; panorama key creased where sometime folded edges soiled and nicked especially left edge light offsetting: a very good copy. Christopher Summerville Who Was Who at Waterloo: A Biography of the Battle 2014. unknown

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