The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan. Vol. 1 + 2.

4°. With 2 fold-out maps (battle of the Alma) in vol. 2. XXV, 519 pp., 16 l., XX, 526 pp., 3 l. Cloth bindings with gilt spines. – FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788 – 1855) , was a British Field Marshal. In 1854 he was appointed to the command of the British troops sent to the Crimea. Kinglake (1809 – 1891), an English travel writer and historian, based his history of the Crimean War both on his own experiences and on the papers of Lord Raglan given to him by Raglan’s widow in 1856.

Spines faded. Top-edges dusty. Some pages of vol. 1 dog-eared. Small label of a bookbinder on the lining of vol. 1. 1st page of the index of vol. 2 with 1 crack. Vol. 2 unopened.

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