Alexander GILLESPIE
Gleanings and remarks: collected during many months of residence at Buenos Ayres, and within the upper country; with a prefatory account of the Expedition from England, until Surrender of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, under the joint Command of Sir D. Baird, G.C.B. K.C. and Sir Home Popham, K.C.B
B. Dewhirst|Leeds 1818|13.7 x 22.3 cm|Relié
First edition of these curious memoirs by a young officer, illustrated with 2 folding maps (cf. Sabin 27391).
Contemporary half Havana calf over corners, spine with five raised bands richly gilt with floral tools and double fillets, green morocco lettering-piece, rubbing to spine and joints, covers framed in gilt fillets on brick-red percaline boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.
Occasional foxing.
In this work, the author recounts, among various observations, the resistance of women at the beginning of the British occupation of 1806; a list, now lost, of the Anglophiles who had sworn allegiance to King George, etc...
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