NAPOLEONIC WARS Bowyer Robert An Illustrated Record of Impo

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(NAPOLEONIC WARS.) Bowyer, Robert. An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe, during the Last Five Years; comprising a Series of Views of the Principle Places, Battles, etc. 13 hand-colored aquatint plates, 4 of them folding; engraved facsimile of signatures of allied rulers and military leaders; lithographed map of Napoleon's retreat from Russia. [2], 32, [20] pages. Folio, 477x340 mm, 19th-century 1/4 calf, rebacked with cloth, endpapers renewed; minor foxing on title and one plate, offsetting on plate of Hamburg from facing text page. London: Bensley and Son for R. Bowyer, 1817

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Revised edition of a work originally published in 1814. Cf. Abbey Life 351-54 and Tooley 96-98.