The Rise, Progress, Decline and Fall of Buonaparte's Empire in France 1805 by William Vincent Barre, Napoleon's personal interpreter
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Title: The Rise, Progress, Decline and Fall of Buonaparte's Empire in France [Root and Son binding]
Author: W. [William Vincent] Barre
Description: First Edition. Boards detached. Binding by Root and Son. Three quarter maroon leather with maroon cloth sides. Five raised bands with gilt ornaments in spine compartments. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Interior is clean and unmarked. Frontispiece and tissue foxed, else text block is largely free of foxing. Errata at terminus. Crown 8vo. xvi + 590, [1]. A good candidate for restoration.
A scarce volume by Bonaparte's personal interpreter, William Vincent Barre (c.?1760-1829). In an attractive, but damaged, binding. ''Bound by Root and Son for John Wanamaker'' stamped along top edge of verso of front free endpaper. John Wanamaker (1838-1922) was the founder of one of the first department stores in the United States, Wanamaker's, and served as the United States Postmaster General for President Benjamin Harrison from 1889 to 1893.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Publisher: Printed by W. Spilsbury, 57, Snowhill, for J. Badcock, No. 28, Paternoster-Row
Place: London
Year: 1805
Keywords: Bonaparte, Napoleon, history, John Wanamaker,
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