BOBROWICZ Jan Nep[omucen] - Napoleon Bonaparte or Pictures of the Hero's Battles and Deeds of War; 90 engravings on steel according to the paintings in the Versailles Museum and other monuments with the addition of historical explanations according [...] by ... Leipzig 1838; Nakł. Breitkopf and Haertel. 16d, pp. [3]-286, plates 90 [including one ff.]. period fl. binding.
Banach 267. copy needs bookbinding treatment - binding slightly damaged, block cracked, frontispiece missing, a few plates rearranged (mainly around p. 207), paper stained and damp in places, margins of a few pages with small loss without damage to text, loss of upper right corner of p. 207 with damage to text - heavily used piece. Stamps and signatures by owner. Title of the cover read: "Napoleon Bonaparte's Picturesque Chronicle with 90 engravings on steel". A second edition with 100 steel engravings was published three years later. Infrequent, especially with a set of plates.
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