Lot 70
  • 70

Regimental Histories.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A collection of nineteenth century manuscript and printed volumes, comprising:
  • paper and ink
1) Horstmann, Theodor. Generallieutenant Johann Nicolaus v. Luckner und seine Hussaren im siebenjährigen Kriege, autograph manuscript signed by the author on the last page of the foreword, 219 pages, plus unpaginated forweword and index, folio, roan backed cloth, Hanover, March 1856; 2) Ilsendorff, W. von. Das Königlich Hannoversche Land-Gendarmerie-Corps. Errichtet am 1. Mai 1815, 37 pages of facsimile text, 8vo, original nineteenth-century yellow wrappers, Hanover, 1 May 1865; 3) Schriefer, Heinrich. Die Lüneburg-hannoversche Doppel Armee...Erster [...Zweiter...Dritter...Vierter] Teil, autograph manuscript, 4 volumes in 2, 220, 224, 172 and 264 pages, 4to, each volume dedicated by the author on the front free endpaper to the Duke of Cumberland, green cloth, early twentieth century; 4) Regiments-Schiessstätte der Tiroler Kaiserjäger am Berg Isel, with 16 postcards by F. Arnold of Innsbruck relating to the regimental firing range of the Tiroler Kaiserjäger at Berg Isel mounted on guards, oblong 8vo, c.1900; 5) Grahl, Otto von. Das fliegende Corps unter F. M. L. Br. Urban während des letzten Feldzuges in Italien. Eine Skizze aus dem Tagebuche des h.h. Artillerie-Lieutenants Otto von Grahl 1860, 23 pages, small 4to, original white wrappers, 1860; 6) Bock, A. von., Beschreibung des Festes zur 50jährigen Bestehens vom Hussaren Regiment Ihrer Majestät der Königin von Hannover, autograph manuscript, 10 pages, folio, paper wrappers, Lüneburg, November 1855; and one other item (7)

Condition

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Catalogue Note

A wide-ranging collection of nineteenth-century material relating to regimental histories, including  the autograph manuscript of a history of General-Lieutenant von Luckner and his hussars in the Seven Years' War, by Theodor Horstmann.