HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULA AND IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814.
New Edition, Revised by the Author, with fifty-five maps and plans. In six volumes, totalling approximately 3,000 pages, with 55 plates, appendices, justificatory notes, replies and counter remarks in Volume VI; nineteenth century full calf, the spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt lettered and decorated contrasting red & black title and volume labels, boards with double gilt rule borders and gilt edges, a couple of corners faintly bruised, all professionally rebacked, retaining the calf spines; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; marbled endpapers; bookplate and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedowns, plus remains of binder's ticket on upper pastedown Volume I, the plates faintly browned, a couple of tiny edge chips, occasional slight creasing and soiling, a little light foxing; Barthes & Lowell, London, 1876. *Napier's eyewitness account of the Napoleonic conflict in Spain and the South of France was originally published between 1828 and 1840. Item #132260
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