SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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YOUNG, Théodore.
Album de Vingt Batailles de la Révolution et de l'Empire.

Battles of the French Revolution and the new French Republic from the Siege of Toulon in 1798 up until the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Published
Paris: Plon. [1860]
Plates
20
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
Paris: Plon. [1860]
Ref
693

[Album of Twenty Battles of the Revolution and the Empire.] Folio: 20pp, 20 hand-coloured plates (290mm x 430mm (11 x 17"). In good condition without dust-wrappers, as issued. Inner hinges cracked and reinforced with green cloth. Margins a little browned, plates in good condition. Red / gilt hardback cloth boards, with black decoration, some fading to spine, minor stains to top edges, endpapers browned. Ex libris 'N.A. Tombazi' on front pastedown. Light foxing throughout. Coloured plates in order: 1. Seiege of Toulon 1798. 2. Bataille de Ste Euphemie 1806. 3. Prise de Gaete 1806. 4. Combat de Somo-Sierra 1808. 5. Bataille de la Corogne 1809. 6. Prise d'Oporto 1809. 7. Seiége de Sarragosse 1809. 8. Bataille de Talavera 1809. 9. Bataille d'Ocana 1809. 10. Passage de la Sierra-Morena 1810. 11. Fuentes d'Onoro 1811. 12. Affaire de Brienne 1814. 13. Combat de Champaubert 1814. 14. Bataille de Montmirail 1814. 15. Bataille de Montereau 1814.P 16. Bataille de Craonne 1814. 17. Combat d'Arcis-sur-Aube 1814. 18. Bataille de Paris 1814. 19. Bataille de Ligny 1815. 20. Bataille de Waterloo 1815.