1907 Ralph Heathcote: Letters of a Young Diplomatist and Soldier During the Time of Napoleon

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The scarce first edition of the letters of Ralph Heathcote, an English soldier and diplomat who served in the Peninsula Wars, edited and with an introduction from Countess Luise Ernestine Charlotte Gunther Groben, Heathcote's grandaughter.

With these letters dating from the period of the Napoleonic wars, many discuss the dispute between Napoleon and William I, Elector of Hesse.

Illustrated with nineteen of the twenty plates called for. Lacking the frontispiece.

With the illustrated bookplate of Arthur Lewis to the front pastedown.