MAHON, LORD: 'HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN'...

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MAHON, LORD: 'HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN'

a unique gifted publisher's copy, by John Murray, London 1832 and retaining fold out map, bound in to rear with the extremely scarce 'Letters from the Earl of Peterborough to General Stanhope in Spain' printed by William Clowes, Duke Street, London, 51 pages, unpublished with only 50 copies printed, further bound in to front with two handwritten letters to James Heywood Markland from Lord Mahon one of which being a presentation of the volume to Markland,

brown leather bound with tooled spine, inside front board with bookplate for Major John Ellen CBE, Special Forces Club, SW1Note: Lord Mahon was Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, FRS (30 January 1805 - 24 December 1875), styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855, an English antiquarian and Tory politician. He held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s but is best remembered for his contributions to cultural causes and for his historical writings.James Heywood Markland (1788-1864) was an English solicitor and antiquary.