Route of Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingall, K.C.B. Overland from India
London: T. Baker. 1820. Binding: Full green diced morocco boards, rebacked preserving original spine. Upper and lower with triple gilt fillet border. Spine with gilt rules and motifs, gilt lettering on 2 black morocco labels. Blind dentelles. Brown pasted and free endpapers., Notes: Sir Miles Nightingall (1768 – 1829) was a British Army officer. He sat in the House of Commons as a Tory from 1820 to 1829. Nightingall entered the army in 1787. He served in India and in England with Lord Cornwallis. He was also Military Secretary during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty in India. In 1811, Nightingall took command of the 1st Division in the Anglo-Portuguese Army in the Peninsula War before he again went to India, where he served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army from 1816 to 1819.
, Size: 8vo. (220 x 140 mm), Illustration: Includes folding frontis-map, subscriber’s list, and errata slip. Score for Italian “Canzonetta” at back.
, Provenance: Ex-Libris; bookplate of Honourable James Butter on front free endpaper., Pages: 284 pp., Category: Book Asia Central India & Ceylon / Sri Lanka;. A near fine-to-fine example in an attractive green leather binding. Item #B7175
Price: $1,100.00