Napoleon's Military Career, an account of the remarkable campaigns of the ""man of destiny""
by Gibbs, Montomery B
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About This Item
Published by the Werner Company, Chigaco, 1895, de-luxe edition of 1000 copies. Publishers green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, no dustwrapper. Small folio, 13.75ins x 11ins, xiii, (i), 343pp plus frontis portrait. Also four double page illustrations in colour, 16 full page illustrations in colour, eight double page illustrations in black and white, 14 full page illustrations in black and white and a very large number of smaller illustrations. Original spine has been neatly relaid. First text page has been repaired along the outer edge using a vellum type tape which has now discoloured. Frontis portrait foxed to the margins. Written on the front free endpaper is ""Joseph Elliott, won in a raffle Dec 1896, Bengal"". Overall VG. Nb heavy book (3kg pre-packing) would be expensive to post overseas.
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- Napoleon's Military Career, an account of the remarkable campaigns of the ""man of destiny""
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- Gibbs, Montomery B
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- Hardcover
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- VG
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- Vellum
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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