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George Armstrong Custer and His 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876 (Montana Heritage Series, Number Seven)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press:

Seller ID: 2272307

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Near Fine. 20 pp. Two original essays and a reproduction of one of the greatest of all the battlefield paintings, keyed to actual battlefield episodes.
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We Speak from the Air: Broadcasts by the R.A.F.

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1942

Seller ID: 2283122

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Wrapper edges lightly rubbed, smudge on front wrapper, ink stamp on half-title page. 1942 Soft Cover. 72 pp. Men of the R.A.F. describe their own experiences in their own words. These accounts of operations over Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Norway, Italy, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic give us the human stories behind the official communiques, and show us the great range and effectiveness of our Air Power. The narratives are selected from over 280 broadcasts, given anonymously by the R.A.F. and W.A.A.F. during 1941.
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V.C. [The Victoria Cross]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283084

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honou...
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The Most Extraordinary Adventures of Major Robert Stobo

By: Alberts, Robert C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1965

Seller ID: 2305888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. A few faint spots on page ridges, ink gift note on half-title page. 1965 Hard Cover. x, 423 pp. Major Robert Stobo (1726/17271770) was an 18th-century Scottish-born colonial American frontiersman and soldier. Stobo was an officer in the Virginia militia who, during the French and Indian War, acted as a spy while a prisoner-of-war at Fort Duquesne. He was later convicted as a spy in Quebec and, while a prisoner there, was able to gain invaluable knowledge of the local area which was later used by British forces during the capture of Quebec.--Wikipedia
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Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative

By: Alexander, E. P.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Archive Society: 1995

Seller ID: 2300254

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1995 facsimile of 1907 original. A very nice copy. 634 pp. Grey boards with gilt page ridges. Marbled endpapers. “First published in 1907, Military Memoirs of a Confederate is regarded by many historians as one of the most important and dispassionate first-hand general accounts of the American Civil War. Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander had no use for bitter “Lost Cause” theories to explain the South’s defeat. Alexander was willing to objectively evaluate and criticize prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clea...
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Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies

By: Allen, Martin

Price: $9.00

Publisher: M. Evans and Co., Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 2285405

ISBN: 0871319934

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor tear on front jacket panel near spine. Faint smudge on top page ridge. 2000 Hard Cover. xxx, 312 pp. Many would have suspected the Duke of Windsor of treason but until recently proof has been suppressed. Now, drawing on a range of archival sources, Martin Allen offers the evidence in this reasoned indictment of the Duke's perfidy.
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The Crown and the Swastika: Hitler, Hess and the Duke of Windsor

By: Allen, Peter

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: 1983

Seller ID: 2303015

ISBN: 0709012942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. Light smudge on page ridge. 1983 Hard Cover. 271 pp. Speculation on the exact role of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War and his connection with Rudolf Hess and the Nazis has continued for more than forty years... Peter Allen's exhaustive research into the events of the 1930s and the early war years, using German documents not previously taken into account, has led him to new and startling conclusions. The dramatic narrative of this book progresses from the events leading to the abdication of Edwar VIII to the subsequent journey of the D...
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The War Diary of the Emperor Frederick III, 1870-1871

By: Allinson, A. R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company:

Seller ID: 2303019

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Page ridges lightly foxed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. xi, 355 pp. The Crown Prince of Germany, afterward the Emperor Frederick III, father of the ex-Kaiser, kept this diary during the Franco-Prussian War. He set down his daily impressions of the campaign, supplementing the diary later with extracts from his correspondence with his wife.
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Eisenhower: Volume I: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952; Volume II: The President

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1985

Seller ID: 2281563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First paperback printings. Spine and back corner of volume 2 lightly creased. 1985 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 637, [3]; 750, [2] pp. Numerous photographs. The complete two-volume biography of the general who became the 34th President of the United States. Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater and Eisenhower'...
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Battle-Fields of the South, From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: An English Combatant

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Time Life Books: 1984

Seller ID: 2301060

ISBN: 0809443910

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Ex Libris bookplate and publisher slip laid in. 1984 Full-Leather. xxvii, 517 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.
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U. S. A., the Hard Way: An Autobiography of a B-17 Crew Member

By: Armstrong, Roger W.; Stone, Ken

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Quail House Pub. Co: 1991

Seller ID: 2198433

ISBN: 0962916110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author with inscription For--Reg Miner--A fellow Kriegie and hostage (of the Russians) at Barth (Stalag Luft I). My very best wishes, Roger W. Armstrong, 5-17-93, with signed and inscribed post-it note laid in: Hi--Reg: Sorry I haven't sent the book earlier--but we're back to our base--in England--for two weeks. It's still there and today houses the Queen's Division. Their claim to fame is the burning of the White House in War of 1812. Thanks, Roger.. 1991 Trade Paperback. 299 pp. The autobiography of Roger W. Armstrong, who enlisted in the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet Program durin...
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Image for Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte: Giving an Account of All His Engagements from the Siege of Toledo to the Battle of Waterloo: Also, Embracing Accounts of the Daring Exploits of His Marshals, Together with His Public and Private Life, from the Commencement of His Career to His Final Imprisonment and Death of the Rock of St. Helena. (Alta Edition)

Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte: Giving an Account of All His Engagements from the Siege of Toledo to the Battle of Waterloo: Also, Embracing Accounts of the Daring Exploits of His Marshals, Together with His Public and Private Life, from the Commencement of His Career to His Final Imprisonment and Death of the Rock of St. Helena. (Alta Edition)

By: Arnault, M.A.; Panckoucke, C.L.F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Porter & Coates: 1890

Seller ID: 2287014

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. No publisher date (circa late 1800s), hinges starting. 1890 Hard Cover. 247; 251 pp. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. Born in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, Bonaparte rose to prominence under the First French Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; ...
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1812: The Great Retreat, Told by the Survivors

By: Austin, Paul Britten

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Greenhill Book: 1996

Seller ID: 2305545

ISBN: 1853672467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine head lightly bumped. Smudge on page ridge. 1996 Hard Cover. 464 pp. 1812: The Great Retreat tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting out on what was to be a long and terrible march to the glittering city of Moscow. Only 100,000 were to reach it. Forced to turn back in the face of winter's onset, almost nothing of the drastically reduced army lived to recross the Niemen River. Using ...
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Selections from the Letters and Diaries of Brevet-Brigadier General Willoughby Babcock of the Seventy-Fifth New York Volunteers: A Study of Camp Life in the Union Armies during the Civil War (War of the Rebellion Series, Bulletin 2)

By: Babcock, Willoughby M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The University of the State of New York: 1922

Seller ID: 2304082

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Front corner creased, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1922 Trade Paperback. 110 pp. A history of the NY 75th during the American Civil War, written by a brevet-brigadier. Photographic frontispiece of the author and several noncommissioned officers, black-and-white plates.
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Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Bauer, K. Jack

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1997

Seller ID: 2305457

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Still in original plastic wrap. 1997 Full-Leather. xxiv, [2], 348 pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of the twelfth President of the United States of America, who died after just over a year in office. He had previously distinguished himself as an officer during the Mexican-American War. Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor was and rem...
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The Life of George Dashiell Bayard, Late Captain, U.S.A., and Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Killed in the Battle of Independence, Dec. 1862.

By: Bayard, Samuel J.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1874

Seller ID: 2260977

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape, minor loss from spine head, boards rubbed, single page in appendix loosening. 1874 Hard Cover. ix, 337 pp. 8vo. A biography of a West Point graduate and career soldier who served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War. Bayard died from an injury sustained from Confederate artillery shrapnel during the Battle of Fredericksburg. This account of his early life, education, and military career was written by his father, who survived him.
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The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: Beatty, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Time Life Books: 1983

Seller ID: 2301050

ISBN: 0809442582

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Ex Libris bookplate laid in. 1983 Full-Leather. vii, 401 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. John Beatty (December 16, 1828 – December 4, 1914) was an American banker and statesman from Sandusky, Ohio. He served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Last Days at Tsarskoe Selo

By: Benckendorff, Count Paul

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Canada, Gilbert's Books: 2012

Seller ID: 2304243

ISBN: 0986531081

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

2012 reissue of 1927 British edition. A fine copy. v, 153 pp. Count Paul Benckendorff, born in 1853, was the son of Count Constantine Benckendorff, minister to the Court of Wurtemberg at the time of his death, and of Princess Louise de Croy. He was educated in Paris, where Countess Benckendorff, his mother, had settled after the death of her husband. He was a cadet in the Corps des Pages at St. Petersburg, and subsequently joined the cavalry regiment of the Gardes-á-Cheval. He took part, at his own request, in the Russian-Turkish War of 1877, and was sent to the Asiatic front. After the fall...
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Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution

By: Bowers, Claude G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1950

Seller ID: 2294644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, minor surface tears to jacket spine which do not obscure text, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. Ink name on front free endpaper, minor ink marginalia, ink notes on rear free endpaper,. 1950 Hard Cover. xiii, 535 pp. Rescued from obscurity in this the first English biography, Pierre Vergniaud, genius and orator, whose eloquence held the violence of the French Revolution in check from 1791-93, is here given his due. On the one hand he fought the excesses and inequities of the regime, on the other the terrorism of the Re...
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The Life of General William T. [Tecumseh] Sherman

By: Boyd, James P.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Publishers' Union: 1891

Seller ID: 2290750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Gilt on spine a bit faded. 1891 Hard Cover. 608 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, black & gilt decorations, black titles, decorated endpapers. Frontispiece of Sherman, illustrations, including maps of Vicksburg & Port Hudson and Chattanooga & Vicinity, throughout text. William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of...
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Ghost Ship of the Confederacy: The Story of the Alabama and Her Captain, Raphael Semmes

By: Boykin, Edward

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls: 1957

Seller ID: 2304915

ISBN: 1131494067

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia. 1957 Hard Cover. xi, 404 pp. Raphael Semmes (September 27, 1809 August 30, 1877) was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Until then, he had been a serving officer in the US Navy from 1826 to 1860. During the American Civil War, Semmes was captain of the cruiser CSS Alabama, the most successful commerce raider in maritime history, taking 65 prizes. Late in the war, he was promoted to rear admiral and also acted briefly as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. His appointment or arrangement to ...
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An Impartial Account of Lieut. Col. Bradstreet's Expedition to Fort Frontenac: To Which are Added, a Few Reflections on the Conduct of That Enterprize, and the Advantages Resulting From Its Success

By: Bradstreet, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Forgotten Books: 2018

Seller ID: 2303506

ISBN: 0265401410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

2018 print on demand facsimile of 1759 original. The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place on August 26–28, 1758 during the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States) between France and Great Britain. The location of the battle was Fort Frontenac, a French fort and trading post which is located at the site of present-day Kingston, Ontario, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario where it drains into the St. Lawrence River. British Lieutenant Colonel John Bradstreet led an army of over 3,000 men, of whom about 150 were regulars and the remainder were provincial ...
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The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Anchor Books: 2013

Seller ID: 2302111

ISBN: 0307475158

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Fifth printing. Spine lightly creased. 2013 Trade Paperback. 718 pp. Ulysses Grant emerges in this masterful biography as a genius in battle and a driven president to a divided country, who remained fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field who made the sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freed men in the South. He allowed the American Indians to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. In this sweeping and majestic narrative, bes...
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Six War Years, 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad

By: Broadfoot, Barry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday Canada Limited: 1974

Seller ID: 2205791

ISBN: 0385058144

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. No jacket, page ridges lightly foxed. 1974 Hard Cover. xii, 417 pp. Ordinary Canadian women and men from the war and home fronts share with readers their experiences of the Second World War, which for them was the most exciting and terrifying event of their lives.
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Lincoln's Choice

By: Buckeridge, J.O.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Stackpole Company: 1956

Seller ID: 2282746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, spine head and spine base lightly rubbed, ink stamp and pencil notes on front endpaper recto and verso, pencil notes on rear endpaper verso. 1956 Hard Cover. xviii, 254 pp. Herein, for the first time, is revealed the impact and scope of the basic repeating rifle in the Civil War. Well documented, and supported by exciting on-the-spot reports, the author presents convincing evidence that the Spencer seven-shooter was a major factor--possibly the major factor in winding up the war which cost far more American lives than World War II. Christopher Spencer, the inventor an...
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Behind the Guns with American Heroes: An Official Volume of Thrilling Stories, Daring Deeds, Personal Adventures, Humorous Anecdotes, and Pathetic Incidents... of the... Spanish-American War and Our Battles with the Philippine Insurgents

By: Buel, J. W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: International Publishing Company: 1899

Seller ID: 2302843

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Board edges lightly rubbed, first couple pages loose but included, ink names on front free endpaper, bookplate. 1899 Large Hardcover. ix,503 pp. Page ridges marbled. Presented in special chapters by Admiral Dewey, General Miles, Lieutenant Hobson, General Shafter, Admiral Schley, General Merritt, Colonel Roosevelt, Captain Sigsbee, Admiral Sampson, General Otis, Captain Evans, General Wheeler, Commodore Philip, Lieutenant Wainwright, and many other noted authorities; to which are added many interesting chapters by soldiers and sailors who were in the thickest of the conflict. Containing also m...
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Paul Jones: Founder of the American Navy - A History, in Two Volumes

By: Buell, Augustus C.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 1902

Seller ID: 2292849

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

1902 printing. Spine and edges a bit rubbed. xv, [1], 328, [6]; vii, [1], 379, [5] pp. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece of Paul Jones in first volume, etched portrait frontispiece in second volume. Also includes a map of the British Isles, an outboard profile of the Bon Homme Richard, a plan of the battle of the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis, and a facsimile of an letter from Paul Jones to George Washington.
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Esther Burr's Journal

By: Burr, Esther; Rankin, Jeremiah Eames

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Woodward & Lothrop: 1903

Seller ID: 2291933

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Third edition. Pencil name on front endpaper, corners lightly rubbed. 1903 Hard Cover. 100 pp. This little work is purported to be the authentic diary of Esther Edwards, the mother of Aaron Burr. No explanation was contained in the volume itself as to its authenticity. Dr. Rankin, formerly President of Howard University, had the original diary of Esther Burr in his possession, but was not allowed by the owners of the manuscript to use it. This Manuscript Diary is now in the possession of the Yale University Library. The above entitled work is entirely fictitious, with the exception of a few pa...
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German U-Boat Commanders of World War II: A Biographical Dictionary

By: Busch, Rainer; Roll, Hans-Joachim; Brooks, Geoffrey

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Greenhill Books / Naval Institute Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2303482

ISBN: 1853673668

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Sticker on jacket spine, jacket edges lightly bumped. 1999 Large Hardcover. 301 pp. Details the service records of some 1,400 officers of the German Kriegsmarine known to have commanded a U-boat between the commissioning of U-1 in June 1935, and the final surrender of U-977 to Argentina in August 1945.
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Image for C. Julii Caesaris, Quae Extant, Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Johannes Godvinus, Professor Regius, in Usum Delphini. The Notes and Interpretations Translated and Improved by Thomas Clark. [Clark's Caesar] [Commentariorum de Bello Gallico; Commentariorum de Bello Civili; Commentariorum de Bello Alexandrino Liber.; Commentariorum de Bello Africano Liber Unus.; Commentariorum de Bello Hispaniensi Liber.; Fragmenta] [Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic, Civil War, Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars]

C. Julii Caesaris, Quae Extant, Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Johannes Godvinus, Professor Regius, in Usum Delphini. The Notes and Interpretations Translated and Improved by Thomas Clark. [Clark's Caesar] [Commentariorum de Bello Gallico; Commentariorum de Bello Civili; Commentariorum de Bello Alexandrino Liber.; Commentariorum de Bello Africano Liber Unus.; Commentariorum de Bello Hispaniensi Liber.; Fragmenta] [Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic, Civil War, Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars]

By: Caesar, Julius; Hirtii, A.; Clark, Thomas

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Bennett & Walton, John Grigg, Carey, Lea & Carey, and Thomas Desilver.: 1829

Seller ID: 2289638

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

1829 sixth edition. Includes all three fold-out maps and engraving. Boards rubbed with some loss of leather along edges, light stain to fore edge, lightly foxed throughout. viii, 410, [8] pp. 4to. Latin text, with notes and interpretations translated into English and improved by Thomas Clark.
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