8vo. vii, [1], 469pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Handsome contemporary Hillbrow School, Rugby prize binding of gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros to upper board, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.

A single-volume edition of Irish military historian and soldier of the British Army, Sir William Francis Patrick Napier's (1785-1860), account of the Peninsular campaign, of which he was a veteran.