Marquis Wellesley’s Notes on the Mahratta War, 1804

Wellesley, Richard [Marquis of Wellesley]: Notes relative to the LateTransactions in the Marhatta Empire.  Fort William, December 15, 1803. With an Appendix of Official Documents, and also Six Engravings illustrative of the Several Battles, from Drawings taken on the spot. Printed for J. Debrett, Piccadilly [London] 1804. 4to [10¼ x 8¼ins]

iv, 115pp. 177pp Appendix, 6 folding battle plans with 4pp unpaginated text. Late 20th century buckram with red leather title label gilt reading NOTES ON THE MARHATTA WAR 18O3, generally a very clean copy for its age, contemporary ink signature to verso of half title J. McGrigor [initial not certain], small tear to inner edge of title page which also has very old blind stamp ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE LIBRARY, some evidence of other writing having been carefully erased. a little light foxing, mainly to the early pages, in a few places. The folding battle plates are :  Camp at Secundra August 26, Assye September23, Delhi, Lasswary November 1, Camp before Allyghur, Entry of troops to the Fort of Allyghur. may18/1 SOLD 5th June 2025

Note. Over a decade ago we had an earlier version of this which was printed for Wellesley to be sent to a very few distinguished recipients in England, It was signed and presented to a high ranking member of Government. It did not include any of the plans whci were added for the commercial publication.