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Pp. (4), 248, 71. Two sections to the book. The first section is A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Pp. (4), 248, 23 of the 24 plates called for are present. The one lacking is Cadland, Hants. Most plates with tissue guards and are generally good+ The second section: A Visitation of Arms. Pp.71 + 12 plates, ix, (1), iii. Most of the plates have their original tissue guards. Three of the plates are loose and have nicks and tears. They are also stained, particularly at the edges. The other plates have. occasional wear and are generally lightly stained. Covers loose and spine lacking. A cluster of the first four leaves including frontis and title page are also loose. In need of some tlc. Book plate of North Ludlow Beamish Lieut. Colonel K.H. F.R.S. Lota Park pasted to front pastedown. North Ludlow Beamish (31 December 1797 - 27 April 1872), was an Irish military writer and antiquary. He was the son of William Beamish, Esq., of Beaumont House, County Cork. In November 1816 he obtained a commission in the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, in which corps he purchased a troop in 1823. In 1825 he published an English translation of a small cavalry manual written by Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, a distinguished officer then engaged in the reorganisation of the Wurtemberg cavalry. Beamish's professional abilities brought him to notice, and he received a half-pay majority in the following year. Whilst attached to the vice-regal suite in Hanover he subsequently published a translation of Count von Bismarck's Lectures on Cavalry, with original notes, in which he suggested various changes soon after adopted in the British cavalry. He also completed and edited a history of the King's German Legion from its formation in the British service in 1803 to its disbandment in 1816, which was published in England in 1834-7, and is a model of military compilations of its class. After quitting Hanover Beamish devoted much attention to Norse antiquities, and in 1841 published a summary of the researches of Professor Carl Christian Rafn, relative to the discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth century. Although the fact had been notified as early as 1828 (in a letter in Niles' Register, Boston, U.S.), it was very little known. Beamish's modest volume not only popularised the discovery by epitomising the principal details in Rafn's great work Antiquitates Americanæ (Copenhagen, 1837), but it contains, in the shape of translations from the Sagas, one of the best summaries of Icelandic historical literature anywhere to be found within an equal space. Beamish, like his younger brother, Richard, who was at one time in the Grenadier guards, was a Fellow of the Royal Society and an associate of various learned bodies. He died at Annmount, co. Cork, on 27 April 1872. N° de ref. del artículo 022096
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