Lot 172

Portraits des Généraux Français, faisant Suite aux Victoires et Conquêtes des Français, Paris, 1818, 2 vols., 8vo, 152 engraved portraits, contemporary calf. With 5 other miscellaneous early 19th-century books. (7)

Estimate: £200 - £200
Hammer price: £45
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Portraits des Généraux Français, faisant Suite aux Victoires et Conquêtes des Français. Cette Collection sera Jointe a la Biographie Militaire Française qui Termine l' Ouvrage. Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1818. 2 volumes [without the Biographie Militaire mentioned in the title], 8vo (200 x 125mm). Title page in the first volume only [as issued], 152 engraved portraits (some dampstaining towards the end of the first vol., some minor wormtracks to the end of vol. II, mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary French calf gilt (rubbed and scuffed, some worming to spines). With 5 other miscellaneous early-19th-century books including James Ede's A View of the Gold and Silver Coins of all Nations, Exhibited In above Four Hundred Copper Plate Engravings correctly executed by an eminent Artist, to which is added in a regular Index, The name, Assay, Weight and Value of Each; Also, Sir Isaac Newton's Tables of Foreign Gold and Silver Coins made in the Year 1700 by order of the Privy Council (London, [1808], square 12mo34 engraved plates of coins, tables, contemporary marbled calf), John Wilson's General View of the Agriculture of Renfrewshire (Paisley, 1812, 8vo, folding hand-coloured engraved map, folding engraved frontispiece of the "Inchinnan Bridges as Executed from a Design of Robertson Buchanan", tables, original paper boards, rather worn) and Eugene Labaume's A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Russia (London, 1814, 8vo, folding hand-coloured engraved map, contemporary calf). The lot sold not subject to return. (7)

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