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20 volumes. Various bindings and paginations. Many illustrated with plates, plans, maps, etc., some folding. Various editions. 

A collection of volumes on the Crimean War, some quite scarce. Many of the volumes containing a variety of maps and plates. The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856, in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire and Sardinia.

Includes:

• [Jeffreys, Henry]. A Month in the Camp Before Sebastopol, By a Non-Combatant. (8vo), original blindstamped cloth. Some scattered marginalia in pencil. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. 
• [Marsh, Catherine]. The Life of Arthur Vandeleur, Major Royal Artillery. With portrait frontispiece, illustrated title page. (12mo), original red cloth, gilt design and spine. Scarce. No copies of this edition at OCLC. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1885.
• [Marsh, Catherine]. Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars, Ninety-Seventh Regiment. With portrait frontispiece, illustrated title page. (12mo), original red cloth, gilt design and spine. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1856.
• [Marsh, Catherine]. Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars, Ninety-Seventh Regiment. (12mo), original red cloth wrappers, gilt design and spine. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1866.
• A British Officer. The Powers of Europe and the Fall of Sebastopol. With folding map at front, illustrated plates. (8vo), blindstamped cloth. Boston: Higgins and Bradley, 1856.
• Buzzard, Thomas, M.D. With the Turkish Army in the Crimea and Asia Minor, a Personal Narrative. With illustrated plates. (8vo), original cloth. London: J. Murray, 1915.
• Hamley, E. Bruce. The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, Written in the Camp. With color plates, folding map. (8vo), original blindstamped cloth.  Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855.
• Kinglake, Alexander. The Invasion of Crimea: Its Origin, And an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan. 8 volumes. With numerous maps and plans, etc., many folding. (8vo), original blindstamped cloth, gilt spines. Short letter in the author's hand laid in. Varying degrees of wear and soiling to bindings,  spine strips detaching from vols. v and vi; all volumes good or better. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863-1887.
• Mordecai, Alfred. Military Commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856. Numerous plates, plans, etc., some folding. (4to), blindstamped cloth. Washington: George W. Bowman, 1860.
• Niel, Adolphe. Siege de Sebastopol. Journal des operations du genie, publie avec l'autorisation du ministre de la guerre. (4to), half period calf and marbled boards, spine label lettered in gilt. Text volumes only. Paris: J. Dumaine 1858. 
• Reilly, W. Edmund. Siege of Sebastopol: An Account of the Artillery Operations Conducted by the Royal Artillery and Royal Naval Brigade before Sebastopol in 1854 and 1855. With numerous tables. (4to), blindstamped red cloth.  London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode for the Queen's Stationery Office, 1859.
• Sandwith, Humphry. A Narrative of the Siege of Kars and of the Six months' Resistance By the Turkish Garrison Under General Williams to the Russian Army: Together with a Narrative of Travels and Adventures in Armenia and Lazistan; with Remarks on the Present State of Turkey. With frontispiece, illustrated title page, folding plan of Kars and folding map of Asia Minor and Armenia at rear. 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at end. (8vo), blindstamped cloth, gilt spine. London: John Murray, 1856.
• Windham, Sir Charles Ash. The Crimean Diary and Letters of Lieut. -General Sir Charles Ash Windham K.C.B. With Observations Upon His Services During the Indian Mutiny. With portrait frontispiece. (8vo) original cloth. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1897.