Bonaparte in Egypt, [With larger-than-life people such as Napoleon there is always the historiographical problem - writers want to celebrate the subject and produce a literary 'work', professional historians want to tell the truth however boring. I find this author has managed to unearth the facts and at the same time write an entertaining book.],
by Herold, J. Christopher,
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- first
- Condition
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Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1962,. see description. first edition, large thick 8vo, xxi,424pp, 19 illustrations on art paper, from paintings, engravings and drawings, 4 maps, The Battle of the Pyramids from a painting by Lejeune on the endpapers, original cloth slightly faded over spine, title gilt on spine, one leaf badly torn at bottom corner had been repaired with sellotape which had corrupted with age leaving a nasty brown mark, nothing I can do about that, I have re-repaired it with acid-free tape, but for that fault the book would be vg.
Synopsis
The French expedition to Egypt which Bonaparte launched in 1798 was one of the most exciting, most harrowing, most futile, and yet most fruitful adventures in modern times.
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- Bookseller
- Crouch Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92009
- Title
- Bonaparte in Egypt, [With larger-than-life people such as Napoleon there is always the historiographical problem - writers want to celebrate the subject and produce a literary 'work', professional historians want to tell the truth however boring. I find this author has managed to unearth the facts and at the same time write an entertaining book.],
- Author
- Herold, J. Christopher,
- Format/Binding
- See description
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, London, 1962,
- Keywords
- Egypt Egyptian Ancient Civilization History
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About Crouch Rare Books
Out-of-print and antiquarian books and maps
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Established 1970
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