A PRISONER OF FRANCE: THE MEMOIRS, DIARY, AND CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES BOOTHBY, CAPTAIN ROYAL ENGINEERS, DURING HIS LAST CAMPAIGN
by Boothby, Charles, Captain Royal Engineers
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1898. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1898. First edition. Decorative dark blue cloth binding with gold art nouveau style fleur-de-lis pattern, gold titles. All page edges untrimmed. 282 pp. Decorative antique library bookplate, hand-dated and hand-numbered. Frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Laid paper. 14 additional illustrations, including a Napoleonic passe-port fold-out following last page. Minimal library markings (no pocket), foxing to endpapers. Scarce. Very good condition..
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005140
- Title
- A PRISONER OF FRANCE: THE MEMOIRS, DIARY, AND CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES BOOTHBY, CAPTAIN ROYAL ENGINEERS, DURING HIS LAST CAMPAIGN
- Author
- Boothby, Charles, Captain Royal Engineers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- NAPOLEON NAPOLEONIC WARS BATTLE OF TALAVERA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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