Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8.

KAYE, SIR JOHN; MALLESON COLONEL GEORGE.

Edité par Longmans, Green, and Co., London., 1897

6 volumes, 13 folding maps or plans (the Map of India highlighted in colour), full page illustration: xx + 454pp + 32pp; xxiv + 506pp; xxiii + 388pp; xxxvi + 412pp; xxiv + 362pp; xv + 442pp (includes index); + 32pp (publisher's advertisements) bound at the end of each volume; original maroon cloth-covered boards, 18.8 x 12.5 cms, silver lettering spines, the cloth rubbed and spotted in places, spines a little sunned, paper abrasion to the front endpapers, foxing to the preliminary leaves and edges, Map of India in the final volume spotted with a neat sealed fold tear, Map of Delhi also has a neat sealed fold tear, stain to the head of a few leaves in volume V, scant spotting elsewhere, early owner's inked signature first volume, in good condition. The Cabinet edition of a once standard work. An "Imperial epic", it was begun as a history of the Sepoy War (in three volumes) by Sir John Kaye a civil servant and former army officer with the East India Company and revised and edited by Colonel George Bruce Malleson. N° de réf. du vendeur 223700

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian ...
Éditeur : Longmans, Green, and Co., London.
Date d'édition : 1897
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Edition : Mixed editions of the Cabinet Edition.