( CARTE MARINE ANCIENNE )Livre Rare Book
Bengal Artillery; Buckle, Captain EBiblio.com
MEMOIR OF THE SERVICES OF THE BENGAL ARTILLERY from the formation of the Corps to the present time with some account of its internal organization
1852réf. 150312London: Wm. H. Allen & Co 1852. By the late Captain E. Buckle. Edited by J. W. Kaye. Pp. xvi592 text illustrations and tables original dark brown coated endpapers index; demy 8vo; rebound in qr. red leather which has been neatly rebacked with a more recent red leather spine lettered in gilt navy cloth boards early but not original a trifle scuffed; uncut; hinges reinforced the lower pastedown slightly grazed a couple of tiny edge chips or splits fore-corners of a few leaves slightly creased a little light foxing and soiling; Wm. H. Allen & Co. London 1852. First edition. From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine with his Militaria book label on the upper pastedown. Edmund Buckle 1808-1846 was a Captain in the Bengal Artillery. The editor Sir John William Kay 1814-1876 was a British civil servant army officer and military historian whose works included a three volume History of the Sepoy War in India. Wm. H. Allen & Co unknown
