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Near mint large format pbk Reprint, 100p Lynedoch was an eyewitness for the Italian part of the campaign, being with the Austrian Staff. He later served in the Peninsular.

No Binding. Condición: Very Gppood. A splendid original engraved portrait. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Circa 1820 - Thomas Graham, later Baron Lynedoch was a good fighting General - Peninsular War etc - in 1785 he took part in the first cricket match to be played in Scotland - and scored 20 in each innings.

Paper. Condición: Good. First Edition. An Original Letter Signed and Written by General Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch. Includes an engraving of the gentleman. Dated C1813. A letter about giving notice to a third party. Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch 1748-1843 was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer. After his education at Oxford, he inherited a substantial estate in Scotland, married and settled down to a quiet career as a landowning gentleman. However, with the death of his wife, when he was aged 42, he immersed himself in a military (and later political) career, during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. For mych of this period he was a very close and second in command to Wellington. Size of letter is 170mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Light paper repair to bottom corner. Lightly soiled/age toned. Small gum marks to rear. . More images can be taken upon request. Ref17155. Signed by Author(s).

Leather bound. Condición: Near fine. Second edition of The History of the Campaigns in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, and 1799, in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, by General Thomas Graham. Ilustrador. Second Edition. Octavo, [four volumes], xviii, 386pp; xvi, 311pp; xiv, 399pp; xiv, 367, [1]. Bound in period calf, titles in gilt on spines, raised bands with decorative gilt compartments. Marbled endpapers and leaf ends. Bookseller's label affixed to front pastedown endpapers of volumes I and IV. Includes 11 numbered, fold-out maps of western Europe. Maps include the following: Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Citadel of Turin, and Siege of Alexandria. This work is complete in 4 volumes, with 11 fold-out maps. The printer released a revised and expanded version of the second edition in 1812, adding 5 additional maps (original second edition published 1801). A fifth volume, detailing the wartime history in Holland, was originally published in 1801, with a second edition in 1803.

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

2pp., 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged. Written in a difficult hand. Docketed on reverse of second leaf in a neat hand, explaining the context: 'Genl Thomas Graham | Stratton Street | 31 Janry 1803 | wrote him first febry that Peers could not be Commssrs of Supply | 1803 | 3 Febry wrote L[or]d Keith.' Graham's letter reads: 'There is the list except two names wch. L[or]d Keith wishes to have inserted & the mem[orandu]m. Of wch. I have mislaid one is the Baillie of Kinkardine [sic] for the time being I think but it wd. be best to apply to him for the proper designations & if necessary afterwards to write to Mrs. Paton abt. them I think it wd. be worth while to have this list printed - & carefully examin'd & any errors corrected I will be at the expense & then no mistake can take place in the names or designations in the act of parl[iamen]t. Transcribing them from this printed list'. He ends by asking to be advised on the matter.