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STEWART, Major General David.
Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of The Military Service of the Highland Regiments of Scotland.
$650
Item Details
Edinburgh, A. Constable, 1822, hardback
First, very good
Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1822. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo [iii-xv, iv, 522; viii, 455, ci], hand-colored engraved folding map of the Highland Clans and folding table of army regiments. Original 3/4 calf bindings with marbled boards, the spines with decorated bands, black labels and gilt titles. A very early and highly important study of Highland clans and more importantly, the Highland regiments of the British Army from the mid-18th century until the close of the Napoleonic Wars. The compiler was an officer in the 42nd Foot or Black Watch during the Napoleonic Wars and interviewed many Highland veterans from earlier conflicts, as well as having access to regimental records. One of his most invaluable correspondents in this compilation was Captain John Peebles, who had served in North America with the Black Watch during both the French & Indian War and Revolutionary War and contributed many firsthand observations concerning uniforms, arms and singular events and personalities. Invaluable and scarce work. CONDITION: Very good; edge wear to the leather bindings; one signature in the appendices is inserted upside down.
James Kochan Antiquarian
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