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17 January 2024

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№ 695

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17 January 2024

Hammer Price:
£220

A Selection of Books on the Battle of Waterloo 1815.

Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars, by Brigadier-General Vincent J. Esposito and Colonel John Robert Elting, published by Faber and Faber, London, 1963, with 169 maps andcharts and 13 half-tone illustrations, hard back, in outer card case, very good condition

Waterloo, by Commandant Henry Lachouque, Arms and Armour Press, London, 1975, 202pp, with numerous illustrations, hard-back, in dust-jacket, good condition

Napoleon and Waterloo, by Major A. F. Becke, Kegan Paul, London, 1936, 320pp, with maps and index, hard-back, reasonable condition
With Napoleon at Waterloo, by Edward Bruce Low, Francis Griffiths, London, 1911, 240pp, with photographic plates and index, hard-back, reasonable condition
The Battle of Waterloo, Ligny, & Quatre Bras, published by L. Booth, London, 1852, 475pp, with numerous engravings and index, hard-back, reasonable condition
The Waterloo Campaign, by Napoleon Bonaparte, edited and translated by Somerset de Chair, Folio Society, London, 1957, 158pp, with maps, hard-back, good condition
The Campaign of Waterloo, by John Codman Ropes, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1910, 402pp, with detached maps and index, hard-back, reasonable condition
A Rough Sketch of the Field of Waterloo, by Henry R. Addison, Brussels, 1839, 179pp, with detached maps and appendices, hard-back, fair condition

A Voice from Waterloo, by Sergeant Major E. C otton, Privately Published, 297pp, with numerous appendices, hard-back, reasonable condition

The Armies at Waterloo 1815, by Ugo Pericoli, Sphere Books, London, 1973, 174pp, with numerous colour illustrations, soft-back, good condition
Men of Waterloo, by John Sutherland, Frederick Muller, London, 1967, 320pp, with numerous photographs, and index, soft-back, good condition

The Hundred Days, by Antony Brett-James, Macmillan, London, 1964, 242pp, with index, hard-back, with dust-jacket, good condition

Together with a set of illustrated ‘Guarde Impériale Eclaireurs’ Plates; a set of illustrated ‘Hubers Uniform Plates’; various booklets and pamphlets relating to Waterloo; two original sketches; and some pressed flowers reputedly recovered from the Field of Waterloo, good condition (lot) £140-£180