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COSWAY-STYLE BINDING MAITLAND (CAPTAIN F.L.) Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and his Residence on Board H.M.S. Bellerophon; with a Detail of the Principal Events that Occurred in that Ship, between the 24th May and the 9th of August, 1815, FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, Henry Colburn, 1826 image 1
COSWAY-STYLE BINDING MAITLAND (CAPTAIN F.L.) Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and his Residence on Board H.M.S. Bellerophon; with a Detail of the Principal Events that Occurred in that Ship, between the 24th May and the 9th of August, 1815, FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, Henry Colburn, 1826 image 2
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COSWAY-STYLE BINDING
MAITLAND (CAPTAIN F.L.) Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and his Residence on Board H.M.S. Bellerophon; with a Detail of the Principal Events that Occurred in that Ship, between the 24th May and the 9th of August, 1815, FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, Henry Colburn, 1826

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COSWAY-STYLE BINDING

MAITLAND (CAPTAIN F.L.) Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and his Residence on Board H.M.S. Bellerophon; with a Detail of the Principal Events that Occurred in that Ship, between the 24th May and the 9th of August, 1815, FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, lithographed folding map, extra-illustrated with 42 additional (mostly) engraved plates (some double-page or hand-coloured), later full blue crushed morocco gilt, PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON ON BOARD H.M.S. BELLEROPHON by ?F.E. Bennett, executed on ivory, (120 x 95mm.) sunk within the front doublure, the covers with elaborate borders enclosing a central lozenge enclosing a coronated "N" (upper), and Napoleonic bees (lower) motif, spine tooled and lettered in 6 compartments within raised bands, g.e., elaborately tooled red morocco doublures with coronated "N" motif in corners, watered silk free endpapers, joints very slightly weakened, 8vo (205 x 125mm.), Henry Colburn, 1826

Footnotes

The portrait of Napoleon standing on board the deck of HMS Bellerophon on 23 July 1815 is based upon the painting of the Emperor by Sir William Quiller Orchardson, bequeathed to the Tate Gallery in 1880.

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