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HAMLEY, E. Bruce. The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1855, 8°, FIRST EDITION, coloured lithographed frontispiece, 5 tinted lithographed and 3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, some folding, one folding map, loosely inserted photograph of General Estcourt in Guinea 1855 (marginal dampstaining to plates, one folding plate with short tear, occasional slight offsetting), contemporary red calf (spine faded, rubbed), bookplate of the Estcourt Library -- Richard MUSGRAVE. Memoirs of the different Rebellions in Ireland from the arrival of the English, Dublin and London: J. Milliken and J. Stockdale, 1801, 4° (258 x 1298mm.), FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece map, 8 folding engraved maps and plans, one plate (a few light spots to plates), contemporary calf gilt (spine and covers faded, lightly rubbed). With 16 other works of varied interest in 23 volumes, all but two bound in calf, including Richard Thomson's An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John (London, 1829) and a volume of blank paper. (25)