1931 Wellington: The Bidassoa and Nivelle

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

First edition. Very scarce edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine images across seven plates, with two folding maps to the pocket at the rear of the text. Collated complete. A detailed account and study of the Battles of Bidassoa and Nivelle during the Peninsular War, lead by Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Written by Major-General F. C. Beatson, a British army officer who later wrote several books about the Napoleonic Wars.