Batty (Captain Robert). An Historical Sketch of the Campaign of 1815, illustrated by Plans of the Operations and of the Battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo, 2nd edition, considerably enlarged, London: printed for Rodwell and Martin, W. Clarke and T. Egerton, 1820, additional engraved partly hand-coloured portrait of the Duke of Wellington after Sir Thomas Lawrence bound-in at front, 6 folding hand-coloured plans, 3 folding tables, advertisement leaf at end, one blank leaf detached, some light spotting, front hinge a little tender, original boards, upper joint splitting and tears at spine ends, some edge wear, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. Author's presentation copy, the front endpaper inscribed 'Col. Thorn, with the author's respects'. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty (1789-1848) served with the Grenadier Guards in the Peninsular War, in the Pyrenees, and at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was wounded. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822 and toured the continent from 1822 to 1833 painting landscapes, some of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy. He published several volumes of engraved European views including Italian Scenery (1820), French Scenery (1822), Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland (1826), and Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery (1829).
Batty (Captain Robert). An Historical Sketch of the Campaign of 1815, illustrated by Plans of the Operations and of the Battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo, 2nd edition, considerably enlarged, London: printed for Rodwell and Martin, W. Clarke and T. Egerton, 1820, additional engraved partly hand-coloured portrait of the Duke of Wellington after Sir Thomas Lawrence bound-in at front, 6 folding hand-coloured plans, 3 folding tables, advertisement leaf at end, one blank leaf detached, some light spotting, front hinge a little tender, original boards, upper joint splitting and tears at spine ends, some edge wear, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. Author's presentation copy, the front endpaper inscribed 'Col. Thorn, with the author's respects'. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty (1789-1848) served with the Grenadier Guards in the Peninsular War, in the Pyrenees, and at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was wounded. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822 and toured the continent from 1822 to 1833 painting landscapes, some of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy. He published several volumes of engraved European views including Italian Scenery (1820), French Scenery (1822), Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland (1826), and Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery (1829).
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