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Histoire de Napoleon Ier, Empereur des Francais, Depuis sa naissance jusqu'a la paix de Tilsitt, Ornee des portraits do Leurs Majestes Imperiales et Royales. (Five Volume Set)
by Anon
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Barba, Libraire, 1807. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mos. ix, [14]-251, [5]; viii, 230; xii, 211, [1]; 239; 364 pages. Hardcovers bound in quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The bindings are quite worn, scuffed and bumped, but the bindings are sound. An ex-library set with full markings. Removed shelf labels from the spines and paper label on the front covers. Ink stamps on the title pages (one from Austria and one in Russian). The title labels on the spines are worn with two showing heavy chipping and pest damage. In Volume IV, there are burn marks at the tops of pages 229-239 with some loss of text (heavy loss on the last fe3w pages. The text blocks are quite sound. A scarce early work on Napoleon. No other copies online; no auction records found.
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- Seller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 051183
- Title
- Histoire de Napoleon Ier, Empereur des Francais, Depuis sa naissance jusqu'a la paix de Tilsitt, Ornee des portraits do Leurs Majestes Imperiales et Royales. (Five Volume Set)
- Author
- Anon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Chez Barba, Libraire
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1807
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1807; Napoleon; Francais; Francaise; French History; Paris; 19th Century; Revolution; Napoleonic Wars; History; Europe; Binding; Multi-Volume Set.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Europe;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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