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Lot 286

[COLOR PLATE BOOK]. LABEDOYERE, Count [Charles] (1786-1815)...

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[COLOR PLATE BOOK]. LABEDOYERE, Count [Charles] (1786-1815). Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte; with Copious Historical Illustrations? London: George Virtue, [ca. 1830s]. 8vos. Illustrated with 12 hand-colored plates or plans. 2 volumes. Bound in contemporary full brown calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, and decoratively ruled in blind, spines tooled in blind and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands (both volumes rebacked with later spines, spines sunned and worn, some wear, light soiling to boards, hinges starting, some occasional foxing to text and plates, bookseller?s tickets to both fps). The G. R. Clarke copy with his (her?) bookplate on both fps. Very good.