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    By Sir Henry Drummond Wolff
    London   T. Bosworth
    9.5" by 6.5" xv, 2-323pp
    The scarce second edition of Henry Drummond Wolff's informative account of Napoleon's first exile, illustrated with a folding map and in the scarce publisher's cloth.
    By Sir Henry Drummond Wolff

    1855 The Island Empire; or, The Scenes of the First Exile of The Emperor Napoleon I

    London   T. Bosworth
    9.5" by 6.5" xv, 2-323pp
    The scarce second edition of Henry Drummond Wolff's informative account of Napoleon's first exile, illustrated with a folding map and in the scarce publisher's cloth.
    £295.00
    : 1kgs / : 973F22
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Early Edition, Folding Maps, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

    The second edition of this work, a scarce work in all early editions.

    Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, a folding map, a tinted plate, and further vignettes. Collated, complete.

    This work offers an account of Napoleon’s first exile, drawn largely from local testimonies and the papers of residents.

    This also includes details of the journey to the island, legends collected from the time, and Napoleon's departure.

    The work of Henry Drummond Wolff, an English diplomat and Conservative Party politician.

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Prize inscription dated 1857 to the front pastedown.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Prize inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Frontispiece lightly age toned.

    Very Good

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