[Rarebooks] Napoleon - Extra-Illustrated & with Napoleon's signature

[Philip Bishop]

Gifford, E. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, in 
France, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Syria, Spain, Poland, Portugal, and Russia. 
With a Complete History of Recent Events in Silesia, Prussia, Bohemia, and 
in the Territories bordering on the Rhine. London: Printed by and for J. and 
J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, 1814. UNIQUE COPY -- LAVISHLY 
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED and INCLUDES A PLATE WITH MOUNTED "BONAPARTE" SIGNATURE OF 
NAPOLEON; two large octovo volumes (9" x 6"), BOUND IN FULL STRAIGHT-GRAINED 
MOROCCO BY WALLIS OF LONDON. _______ Full straight grained brown morocco 
with RICHLY TOOLED SPINES (including crowns, bees and eagles), gilt lines on 
covers, top page edges gilt; other edges untrimmed; gilt inner dentelles; 
marbled endpapers. Original labels for boards inlaid to size and bound in 
the front of each volume. Housed in a cloth slipcase. ________ This copy has 
been extra illustrated: in addition to the regular 20 colored plates and two 
maps, this copy has an additional 76 portraits and views (21 of which are 
colored). Eight of the colored views are by George Cruikshank, some of them 
from the famous Life of Napoleon by Ireland--these plates are folding and 
are views of the battles and indeed are some of the most famous of the 
Cruikshank illustrations. ________ This fine, tall copy bears a neatly 
calligraphed presentation page "To H. W. Prentis, Jr. in appreciation. The 
Philadelphia Carpet and Upholstery Club. 10 May 1946." Prentis was the 
president of Armstrong Cork Company in America. ________ Housed in a cloth 
slipcase. Images can be supplied. Simply said. A MAGNIFICENT SET in fine 
condition and which would be an invaluable addition to any Napoleonic 
collection. $8,500

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Philip R. Bishop
MOSHER BOOKS
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Ephrata, PA  17522-0542  U.S.A.

717-733-1476
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