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Abbott, J[ohn] H[enry] M[acartney]. ENSIGN CALDER: BEING FRAGMENTARY REMINISCENCES FROM THE CAREER OF A SUBALTERN OFFICER OF H. M. 46TH REGIMENT OF FOOT AND THOSE OF HIS INTIMATE FRIENDS, LIEUTENANT WICKS, R.N., AND MR. ACTING-DEPUTY-ASSISTANT-COMMISSARY-GENERAL PILKINGTON, IN SYDNEY, CIRCA 1816, DURING THE GOVERNORSHIP OF MAJOR-GENERAL LACHLAN MACQUARIE, C.B. . Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Ltd., 1922. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in black. First edition. Seriocomic sketches depicting the lighter side of military life in Sydney during Macquarie's regime. Miller (1940), pp. 492 and 688. Miller and Macartney (1956), p. 27. Endpapers tanned, else a nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket with shallow chipping at edges. (#116270)
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ENSIGN CALDER: BEING FRAGMENTARY REMINISCENCES FROM THE CAREER OF A SUBALTERN OFFICER OF H. M. 46TH REGIMENT OF FOOT AND THOSE OF HIS INTIMATE FRIENDS, LIEUTENANT WICKS, R.N., AND MR. ACTING-DEPUTY-ASSISTANT-COMMISSARY-GENERAL PILKINGTON, IN SYDNEY, CIRCA 1816, DURING THE GOVERNORSHIP OF MAJOR-GENERAL LACHLAN MACQUARIE, C.B. ...