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Lot 210
LASKEY CAPTAIN J. C. A Description of the Series of Medals ...
Hammer
£280
LASKEY CAPTAIN J. C. A Description of the Series of Medals Struck at the National Medal Mint by Order of Napoleon Bonaparte, Commemorating the Most Remarkable Battles & Events During His Dynasty. Eng. port. frontis & text vignettes. Tall quarto with wide margins. Very handsome dec. green morocco gilt extra by Marston, foliate pink endpapers. Bookplate of Henry Edmund Taylor, Whickham, 1818. The first edition of this essential work on Napoleonic medals, written during the lifetime of the exiled emperor.
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Tanning & some foxing to frontis & title leaf but otherwise very clean internally & a fine copy.
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