Maritime & Military

8 large engraved prints, each measuring 51 by 88cm, folded in the middle, bound in a square folio album, red silk-covered boards. Printed calligraphic inscription by the Qianlong Emperor in the upper margin. Overall in very good condition.

First edition. 4to, (32.9 x 25.3 cm); text printed on Whatman paper dated 1794, hand-coloured engraved title page, 86 hand-coloured aquatint costume plates by Thomas Rowlandson, most heightened with gold and silver (plates dated 1798-1799), closed short marginal tear to Infantry plate 4, Cavalry plate 4 with some staining not affecting image, scattered spotting, mainly to text; later red half morocco, dampstain to upper board, extremities rubbed, a very good copy.

First edition. 2 vols. 8vo, 576; 580 pp., 36 illustrations including 10 chromolithographs, original green pebble-grained cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover & spine vol. I, a fine set.

Second edition; 4to (246 x 182 mm); half-title, frontispiece portrait, 21 further plates; publisher's maroon cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, residue of label removal at foot of spine, otherwise very good condition overall.

First edition; 12mo, (17.2 x 10.3 cm); engraved folding plate, woodcut initials and tailpiece, contemporary ink illustration to front free endpaper, contemporary inscriptions to front free endpaper and verso of folding plate, slight evidence of worming; contemporary vellum, MS lettering to covers, some ink stains, small split to vellum on upper cover, some edges trimmed, overall a very good copy; [7], 48pp.

Oblong 4to; 8 silver nitrate photographs from original negatives, stub-mounted on thick card, tissue guards, fi104nal photograph with the subjects' names stamped beneath the image in gold; original burgundy cloth, titles to upper board gilt, patterned enpapers, boards a little bowed, tissue guards somewhat creased, some oxidisation to the extremities of the plates. Excellent.

Folio (578 x 36 cm). 22 double-page engravings of ships, numbered consecutively in the plate 1-22, most with dual French and Dutch titles. Contemporary red half morocco over decorative paper boards, spine richly gilt with foliate motifs, spine label lettered in gilt, a fine copy.

First edition, series 1, issues 1-6; oblong 4to (21 x 30.5 cm); 36 lithographs in colour by Charles Mozin, six in each part, margins slightly browned, very minor foxing; original printed green wrappers with thread ties, some wear, small tear to part VI, in a green cloth clamshell box, spine with gilt title, an excellent set.

First edition, signed by the author; 8vo; portrait frontispiece, illustrations, a few minor spots to preliminary and terminal pages; publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in gilt, rubbed at extremities, lightly dust soiled, browning to endpapers, otherwise good.

First edition, 2 parts, 48 livraisons in part I and 26 in part II ; folio (38 x 27 cm); 589 hand-coloured lithographic plates with printed captions and some with publisher's blind stamp, one lithographic dedication, 3pp. letterpress content biofolium for part I, with annotations annotated, tape marks and leaves detached, plates tipped in as issued, except 5 plates in part I which are from a later issue, captions mostly in French or in French and German (as in the sections for the Swedish, Swiss and French armies), plates for the Austrian Army are heightened with gum arabic, plates are in excellent condition overall, a few with tape repairs, one foxed and a few with marginal tears; each livraison in the original grey printed wrappers, of a few different designs, with the text in French or German, numbered in ink manuscript (extremities rubbed, creased and with short nicks and tears, about one-third with splits to joints, some almost detached, livraison 25 of part 2 with crude tape repairs to joints, part I contained in the original portfolio with printed paper-covered sides, green silk ties (extremities rubbed, a couple of short splits to joints); with a near contemporary metal box used to house at least part of the set, a fine example.