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Lot 295

[HOOK, Theodore (1788-1841)]. Facts, Illustrative of the Tr...

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[HOOK, Theodore (1788-1841)]. Facts, Illustrative of the Treatment of Napoleon Buonaparte in Saint Helena. London: William Stockdale, 1819. 8vo. Illustrated with 3 hand-colored illustrations. Bound in nineteenth-century half brown calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and tooled in gilt (spine sunned, binding worn, endleaves foxed, some occasional foxing in text. Bookplate of the Marquess of Sligo on the fp. Near fine. FIRST EDITION; WITH AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE INITIALED BY HOOK LAID-IN. Laid-in are two engraved portraits of a young and old Hook.