BRITISH BATTLES - MAXWELL IN SOUTH AFRICA

This is a very, very large book. 40 cm x 31 cm. Printed 1902 first edition. This book has been rebound on spine and corner edges renewed and new endpapers. With a series of pictures painted by Henri Dupray. Includes the Siege of Mafeking during the Anglo-Boer War. Also Ulunhdi, Battle of Tugela, Paardeberg, Toulouse, Waterloo. A previous owner used white selotape to correct tears on pages. Tissue paper between pictures. Foxing throughout book and two pages of detailed descriptions by previous owner. R100 postage in SA. British Battles: Being a History of Great Contests in which the British Nation has been Engaged from the Time of William the Conqueror to the Accession of King Edward VII., with a Descriptive Account of the Battles and of their Influence on the Empire.