Jun 19, 2008 - Sale 2150

Sale 2150 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NAPOLEONIC WARS.) Stack, Frederick Rice. Souvenir of the Emperor Napoleon. Consisting of Six Drawings made in the Island of Saint Helena. 6 hand-colored lithographed plates. [9] leaves, including letterpress title, preface, and descriptive text, and lithographed dedication. Folio, 610x445 mm, original 1/2 red straight-grain morocco, spine and cover corners worn, stain on front cover; dampstain in blank lower margin of preliminaries, dark ink stain along bottom edge through rest of volume, title and dedication foxed. London: E. Gambart & Co. et al., [1859]

Additional Details

first edition, large-paper issue, with hand-colored plates. Abbey Travel 319 (regular issue, with tinted plates).