1832-1840 History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814

Description

Early Edition, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

An attractively bound and impressively detailed historical study of the Peninsular War between 1807 and 1814, the work of British General W. F. P. Napier.

A mixed edition set, consisting of: volume I in the 1837 third edition; volume II in the 1832 third edition; volume III in the 1833 second edition; volume IV in the 1834 first edition; volume V in the 1836 first edition, and volume VI in the 1840 first edition.

Illustrated with fifty-five engraved maps and plans across all six volumes. Collated, complete.

With half titles to volume I and II, and publisher's advertisements to the rear of volumes I, III, IV and V.

With the armorial bookplate of Timothy Eden to each front pastedown.

A wonderful work of military history.