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PENN, W.J. - The Taranaki Rifle Volunteers
Estimate:
$200 - $300
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$220
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186 Rare Books, Militaria, Maps, Historical Art
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PENN, W.J.
The Taranaki Rifle Volunteers
A Corps with a History. Being a Chronicle of the formation and achievements of the First British Volunteer Corps to become engaged with an enemy in the field, from 1859-1909. New Plymouth: Avery 1909. iv, 86p, colour frontis, illustrations and plans, endpapers browned, contents clean. Original stapled edition, pulling at staples, red cloth binding with black titles, fading.
Scarce copy of the first edition, inscribed on endpaper, ‘Major F.A. Whitcombe, 1st Battalion, Taranaki. 7 Aug’ and later inscription ‘Given to Major G. Thomson, NZMC 1935’.
The Taranaki Rifle Volunteers
A Corps with a History. Being a Chronicle of the formation and achievements of the First British Volunteer Corps to become engaged with an enemy in the field, from 1859-1909. New Plymouth: Avery 1909. iv, 86p, colour frontis, illustrations and plans, endpapers browned, contents clean. Original stapled edition, pulling at staples, red cloth binding with black titles, fading.
Scarce copy of the first edition, inscribed on endpaper, ‘Major F.A. Whitcombe, 1st Battalion, Taranaki. 7 Aug’ and later inscription ‘Given to Major G. Thomson, NZMC 1935’.
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