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Item Details
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| Author: |
Beatson, Alexander |
| Title: |
A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippo Sultaun; Comprising a Narrative of the Operations of the Army under the Command of Lieutenant-General George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
G. & W. Nicol |
| Date: |
1800 |
| Item # : |
121419 |
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| Sale Number |
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247 |
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12 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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09/12/2002 |
| Price realized |
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$ 517 |
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| Description: |
| xxiii, [1], 265, [1], clxxii pp. With 6 plates including copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Tippoo Sultan; 3 folding copper-engraved maps & plans (1 of them hand colored); folding copper-engraved order of battle of the British troops; folding aquatint view of Seringapatam. (4to) 10½x8¼, period tree calf, spine tooled in gilt, morocco lettering piece. First Edition. |
| Narrative of one of the seminal events in the British takeover of India, the defeat of Tippoo Sultan, sultan of Mysore, who for two decades had been a thorn in the side of the British East India Company and its forces. In addition its significance to the history of British India, this work has a place in the pantheon of rocketry books; the striking aquatint view of Seringapatam shows the explosion of its rocket magazine, with the missiles shooting into the night air. With the bookplate of Frederick I. Ordway, III. Ordway worked side-by-side with legendary rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, with whom he wrote A History of Rocketry and Space Travel (1966), The Rockets' Red Glare (1976), and other books. |
| Condition: |
| Joints cracked, corners and ends worn, rubbing to cover edges; offsetting to the title-page and a few places within from the plates, occasionaly foxing, else very good |
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