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Histoire de Napoleon…Vignettes par Raffet
by (NAPOLEON) (RAFFET, illustrator) NORVINS, (Jacques Marquet) de
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Glendale, California, United States
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About This Item
Large octavo, viii, 648 pp. Contemporary full vellum with elaborate gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown of Reverend William Grice (1813-1885). Scattered foxing. Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations by Raffet. Text in French. Binding firm. Large 8vo. A very attractive copy in a splendid binding. First edition of this richly illustrated life of Napoleon, with engraved frontispiece and hundreds of full-page and in-text wood-engraved illustrations by Raffet, handsomely bound in full contemporary decorative vellum.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 328
- Title
- Histoire de Napoleon…Vignettes par Raffet
- Author
- (NAPOLEON) (RAFFET, illustrator) NORVINS, (Jacques Marquet) de
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Furne et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1839
- Pages
- 648
- Size
- Large 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- French History, Napoleon
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Terms of Sale
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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About the Seller
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glendale, California
About Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books LLC, specializes in books from the 16th through 20th century. We stock many books in the field of literature, Western philosophy, Greek classics, the history of ideas, Medicine & Science & fine sets. We are always looking to purchase individual books in our areas of interest.
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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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