Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Field Marshal (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint, Complete with Portraits and Maps. Volume No.1 only. Frontispiece. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. There are a few library stamp marks. There is gilt on the spine and decoration to the front of the book. The boards are stained, marked all about from storage. Uncut edges. There is light foxing on the first blank page. The text within the book is bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have little wear but spine is a bit darkened. Hinges are very slightly loose. Prev owners name to endpaper. Contents are clean and reasonably bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. A lot of dirty marks, scratches and wear on cover. Also a tear down spine on inside of first page and a sticker from previous owner on first blank page. Foxing on a couple of pages but content is fine. Book.

Condition: Gut. New Edition in one volume. XXII, 1 Bl., 601 S., 1 Bl. Inside easily bronzy, maps sporadically foxed. Book end papers and covers inside foxy. Book end paper in front with handwriting. Pages mainly not cut open at front and on top. Text and pages inside clean. With a frontispiece-portrait of the Field-Marshal wearing his uniform and many further portraits on plates as well as some plans and maps on plates and several times folded. (one with a tear) Englisch 1. Stock 77|4185DB Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 444 21x14,5 cm. Red cloth binding with blind embossing on both covers and gilt back title. Spine faded and with 2 small black spots. Edges slightly bumped. Lower corner jolt. Hinge very easily cracked at bottom.

Condition: Good. A+ Customer service! Satisfaction Guaranteed! Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. London: Richard Bentley and Son, January 4, 1897; in 2 volumes; this is Vol. II.; Chapters XXXV-LXVIII; 15 Appendices; Indices of Persons and of Chief Public Events; ix+ 33-522 pages + Ads. With Portraits and Maps. 9" tall. Good+ ex-library; no other markings; gilt-lettered spine; blind-stamping and gilt design on front; some toning around the tissue guarded frontis; Library bookplate; previous owner gift inscription dated April 1897; otherwise clean, clear text; hinges open easy with closed 4? tear to rear. History of 19th century British India 1863-1893 and the Afghan Wars. Kabul Massacre. Battle of Kandahar. Final Annexation of Burma.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers. Foxing to end inside covers. Previous owners name to inside cover. Ticks in margin in pencil to a couple of pages. Corners of cloth worn. Sunned spine and fading to cloth With age boards. Few marks to cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Cromwell. Marlborough. Peterborough. Wolfe. Clive. Coote. Heathfield. Abercromby. Lake. Baird. Moore. Wellington. Plans of Battles and Sieges. Sketches to Illustrate Campaigns. Illustrated. 508 pp. Hand cut pages. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine, blind-stamped titles on front and rear boards, decorated endpapers, monochrome frontis and illstns, fold-out maps. Tight and square, wear to spine and boards, name on blank fly, a little light foxing in prelims. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Written lengthwise on back of 11.5 x 7.5 printed card. The side of the card with Roberts s autograph is discoloured but in fair condition, but there is slight loss along the inner margin of the printed side, resulting in some loss of text. Roberts autograph reads: I give my vote / Fred. Roberts. / India / 14th. April 1888. The printed text states that Caroline Constance Williams, aged 8 years, was the daughter of Band-Sergt. John Williams, who served 14 years, and 5 months, in India; the last year in Belorchistan, where through hardship under canvas, contracted the disease from which he died. He was in possession of the medal for long service and good conduct. Details are give of four individuals by whom The case is strongly recommended .

35th edition orig. dec. cloth Very Good octavo xxii + 601pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. maps & plans, appends., index, Cheap edition. Inc. a fine account of the Indian Mutiny. Front hinge tender o/w a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Illustrated with 41 illustrations and many maps some of which are folding. Pp xxii 597. Index and 17 appendices. Red cloth. Previouis owner bookplate inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. This 1911 reprint is in fair condition. Wear present to the spine (spine cover detached on rear side) and cover as shown in the photos. Signed with an inscription by the author on the title page. The pages are very good free from markings or wear. We are very happy to provide additional photos. Please feel free to contact us. Signed by Author(s).

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium, folded once. In good condition. 29 lines of text. He thanks her for her kindness, in the midst of your great sorrow , in writing to inform the Robertses of her husband s death. We have often talked of you both, and wondered where you were living. He had thought it was somewhere in the valley of the Thames, at least I thought you told me so when last I met you both walking in Regent Street - some 10 years ago . After a brief comment on Tierney s ill health, he recalls how He, Alfred Torrens, and I sat next to each other at Mills School. Torrens died a few weeks ago, and now I am the only one left. He ends by sending his and his wife s condolences, and in a postscript signed R asks to be informed should you come to London . In his 1914 biography, Walter Jerrold writes that between 1842 and 1845 Roberts was pupil of a Mr. Mills at Hampton .

See the entries for the two men in the Oxford DNB, as well as that of the subject of the letter, Sir Richard Temple s eldest son Captain Richard Carnac Temple (1850-1931), the future second baronet. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Aged, with the gutter repaired with archival tape, and the reverse of the second leaf adhering to part of its mount. Headed Private and addressed to Dear Sir Richard . His telegram of 16 May reached Roberts in Kashmir, and he at once communicated its contents to the Foreign Secretary, but with no result, as I was sorry to find when the Gazette with the Queen s Birthday Honors appeared . He will however have another opportunity of bringing your son s name to the notice of government, for in Sir George White s report on giving up the Command in Burma, Captain Temple s good services are specially alluded to . (See the Oxford DNB: The outbreak in 1885 of the Third Anglo-Burmese War brought Temple once more on active service, and led in 1887 to his being placed in charge of King Thibaw's capital on Thibaw's deposition. ) Roberts will be pleased to endorse the General s favorable opinion .

xx, 511 p., xii, 522 p. + 64 page catalog/index, frontis, illus, fold-out maps, appendices, decorated endpapers, 8vo; Good/no dust jackets, hinges partially cracked, wear to extremities, gift inscription on half title page of volume 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Forty-One Years in India from Subaltern to Commander in Chief by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, New Edition in One Volume,1900, Published by Macmillan and Co. Limited, Printed by Billing and Sons, Hardback,has fading to covers and spine, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing, All illustrations appear present as listed,with yellowing to illustrations, On front cover fly-leaf page there is a previous owners name written in Black Biro Ink: C H Horace, and a Raised clear stamp to page: W.Lewis Bookseller 22 Duke Street Cardiff,

29th edition orig. dec. cloth Very Good octavo xvii + 597pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. maps & plans, appends., index, First edition of the one-volume edition. Inc. a fine account of the Indian Mutiny. Cloth faded & worn particularly at spine o/w VG tight copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good/Fine. No Jacket. 29th Edition. 597 pages/blind stamped red cloth/Frontispiece (Lord Roberts) tissue guard in placeDedication/Preface to the first edition/Contents/List of Illustrations/Appendices(27)/Index/Persons/Chief Public Events/pages 585-597 uncut/Title in gilt on the spine. Former owner's name in pencil on the flyleaf page.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60072592: 1897. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 511 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice (portrait). Illustré de nombreuses gravures et de quelques plans (dont 1 dépliable) en noir et blanc, sur planches hors texte. Titre doré sur le dos. Armoiries dorées sur le premier plat. Ex-libris illustré en noir et blanc (Armoiries, 'S') encollé au dos du 1er plat. Très légères mouillures en tout début et toute fin d'ouvrage. Frontispice se détachant. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. There is intermittent minor foxing throughout both volumes, though the pages are mostly clean. First published January 4, 1897, This is the eighteenth edition, April 28, 1897, with a Braille type edition for the blind in the press. James Patterson eat your heart out!.

Condition: as is. First U.S. Edition. 511 & 523, 2 vols., illus., maps, appendices, index, boards quite weak, frontis v.1 separated from text, some foxing, tears at spine. Small pieces missing at spines, binding cracked p. 272 v.1 and p. 112 v.2.

Condition: Molto buono (Very Good). Due volumi in 8vo (mm 215x132); pp. XX, 511, [1], [14] c. di tav. fuori testo, di cui 3 ripiegate; XII, [2], 522, 64, [15] c. di tav. fuori testo, di cui 4 ripiegate. Ogni volume è dotato di proprio occhietto e di frontespizio stampato in rosso e in nero con piccola illustrazione xilografica. Al termine del secondo volume si trova Richard Bentley & Sons list of new and standard works. La prima tavola del primo volume, che funge da antiporta, risulta quasi completamente staccata. Lievi aloni e leggere fioriture. Tela posteriore con titolo e filetti in oro al dorso. Terza o quarta edizione.   Interessante opera nella quale sono raccolte le memorie di Frederick Roberts, che trascorso quarantuno anni in India come ufficiale e comandante britannico. L'opera offre un'accurata istantanea dell'impero britannico in tutta la sua grandezza nella secodna metà del XIX secolo. L'opera riscosse uno straordinario successo: la prima edizione fu pubblica il 4 gennaio 1897, seguita nel sei mesi successivi da altre 21 edizioni, oltre ad un'edizione americana, un'edizione indiana e un'edizione Braille.  Frederick Roberts, I conte Roberts (Cawnpore, 1832 - Saint-Omer, 1914), è stato un generale britannico.  Proveniente da una famiglia di militari, si distinse già in gioventù per coraggio e la tenacia, che gli valsero  durante la rivolta dei sepoys la Victoria Cross. Fu uno dei più importanti ed abili generali britannici in Età vittoriana: guidò con successo le sue truppe nella seconda guerra anglo-afghana, nel corso della quale condusse la famosa marcia su Kandahar, e soprattutto ristabilì con una serie di vittorie la situazione a favore dell'Impero britannico nel corso della seconda guerra boera. Ricoprì la carica di feldmaresciallo e comandante in capo del British Army.  .

29th edition orig. dec. cloth Very Good octavo xvii + 597pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. maps & plans, appends., index, First edition of the one-volume edition. Inc. a fine account of the Indian Mutiny. Some small stamps & a label & front hinge tender o/w VG tight copy.

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In full red polished calf leather fine prize binding, with gilt line paneled boards, gilt crest to front ?Henshaw?s Blue Coat School, Oldham.? Marbled page edges and endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to boards, with small ding to rear board, some minor darkening to spine and minor rubbing to ends and corners. Prize label and bookplate to front endpapers ?Blue Coat School, Oldham? and ?Ex Libris A.L. Bound, Southampton.? Some mild foxing to blank prelims with stain to centre binding on prelims and halftitle page. Frontis plate clean and bright, a couple of minor spots to front tissue guard and title page. Some occasional minor spots and handling marks to pages, fold out plates with some darkening and foxing to edges and adjacent pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xxii + 601pp. With Forty-Four Illustrations including B&W portrait plates, fold out panoramas and coloured maps, and woodcut vignettes within text. Autobiography of Field Marshal, Lord Roberts (Bobs).

Hardcover. Condition: ACCEPTABLE. 1897. Richard Bentley And Son . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Blue illustrated boards. Gilt titles. Boards marked. Slight edgewear. Spine worn. Spine marked. Page edges foxed. End pages foxed. Pages discoloured throughout. Spine cracked. 8 x 5.

Hard. Condition: Good. Has been rebacked with cloth spine, with original leather spine relaid (with cracking and loss), leather boards with gilt heraldic shield to front, marbled endpapers and closed edges, hinges reinforced with cloth tape, looks like a bookplate has been removed on front pastedown, some light foxing, otherwise content is clean and tight, fold out maps in good condition, occasional minor tear. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Two hardcover volumes in original stamped and decorated blue cloth boards. Eleventh printing, published in same year as first edition. Interior of both books is very good and all illustrations, drawings, plans, maps and folding maps are present. The spine of Vol. 1 is split down the entire length, and the bindings of both are cracked and loosened. Rebinding would yield a handsome set. 8vo. Vol. 1: 511 pp. Vol. 2: 522 pages including index and many pages of ads for other books from the publisher. Heavy--six pounds packed. Will require additional postage if shipped priority or outside the U.S.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece, xvii, 511p: xii, 522p. Publishers original blue cloth.Small vertical tear in the headband to volume two and front board a little shaken, otherwise an internally clean set.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. 8vo. Two (2) volumes in gilt lettered blue cloth. 21st printing from the same year. 511 pp and 522 pp plus 63 pp ads and index. Fold out maps and illustrations. Very sharp copy of this incredibly popular book of its time. Wear to edges. Newspaper clipping to front endpaper. Inscription from 1897 on the half title.