THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE : New Edition with Nine Illustrations in Permanent Photography and Numerous Illustrations in Wood
by Lockhart, J. G
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leicester Square, London: Bickers & Son Ltd, 1891. Full-Leather. Fair. Frontis illustrated with a Portrait of Napoleon with facsimilie signature beneath. Detailed Biography from Napoleon's birth in Corsica to his death & funeral on St. Helena. Full page illustrations include Crossing the Alps and Waterloo. Contemporary Brown Tree Full-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands to spine. Gilt title on Red ground in 2nd compartment, Gilt Decoration filling the others. Narrow decorative gilt border to front & back. Endpapers and all page edges Marbled. 8 1/2" Tall. Leather split down sides of s[pine but boards still attached. 3 very small pieces of leather missing from sp[ine (see photo). Front board slightly warped due to a little bowing of first few pages. No inscriptions. Pages & Plates in very good, clean condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013865
- Title
- THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE : New Edition with Nine Illustrations in Permanent Photography and Numerous Illustrations in Wood
- Author
- Lockhart, J. G
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bickers & Son Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Leicester Square, London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/HEADS OF STATE/HISTORICAL/MILITARY/MILITARY WARS/NAPOLEON
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...