THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I: including new materials from the British Official Records.
In two volumes. Pp. xviii+512+viii+594, 47 plates (including frontispieces, 2 double page maps and a folding facsimile letter), 23 text maps or plans (some full page), title pages printed in red & black, appendices, index, demy 8vo; handsomely bound in half red morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt with Napoleonic ornaments (eagle, bee and initial N within a laurel wreath) in compartments between raised bands, red cloth boards, slightly marked, edges lightly rubbed; t.e.g.; ribbon markers; marbled endpapers, binder's stamp (Sotheran & Co) on verso of upper free endpapers, inked gift inscription (dated 1905) on blank preliminary leaf Volume I, scattered foxing; George Bell and Sons, London, 1902. First edition.. Item #184297
Price: $500.00