Harley (John). The Veteran, 2 volumes, 1838

Harley (Captain John). The Veteran, or Forty Years in the British Service: Comprising Adventures in Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, and Prussia, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: published by the Author's Widow, 1838, half title to volume I, lithograph portrait frontispiece, contemporary ownership inscription, 1839 to volume II pastedowns, bequeathal label from Philip Askell Benton (died at his post in Nigeria in 1918) and ink withdrawal stamps to front pastedowns, original blindstamped cloth, rebacked with original spines relaid, faded with labels removed from foot, 8vo, together with Landmann (George Thomas). Adventures and Recollections of Colonel Landmann, Late of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Colburn and Co., 1852, half title in volume II, 16 pp. catalogue at end of volume I, slight toning to textblock, previous owner inscriptions of George More, 1854 to front endpapers, original blindstamepd cloth, rebacked with original spines relaid, faded, 8vo, plus Larpent (Sir George, editor). The Private Journal of F.S. Larpent, Esq. Judge Advocate General of the British Forces in the Peninsula. Attached to the Head-Quarters of Lord Wellington during the Peninsular War from 1812 to its close, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1853, half titles, hinges reinforced, original cloth, rebacked with original spines relaid, spines a little darkened, 8vo, with two others: The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles Napier G.C.B., by Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Napier, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, 1857, and Rough Notes by an Old Soldier, during Fifty Years' Service, from Ensign G,B, to Major-General, C.B., [by George C. Bell], 2 volumes, 1867

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