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Bound with a Rare Napoleonic Broadside
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 AND EVENTS DURING HIS DYNASTY. London: Printed for H.R. Young, 1818. J. M'Creery, London, printer. 8vo [21 by 13.5 cm], full navy blue calf, front cover impressed in gilt with a foliated initial N; spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt with five gilt flies in the remaining compartments; marbled endpapers; all page edges marbled. iv, (vii)-xiii, (1), 239, (1) pages [v-vi skipped, as always]; large folding Republican broadside [47.5 by 37 cm] bound in following the main work (see comments). Binding rubbed at extremities, but sound and still attractive. Very good or better. The first edition of this essential work on Napoleonic medals, written while the exiled ruler was still alive. Covering 141 medals, Laskey describes each in some detail and then gives a historical overview of the events being commemorated. An unusual copy, lacking the usually encountered engraved frontispiece portrait, but bound with a folded broadside printed by and for H. Berthold, 16 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, London. The broadside is titled "A Cure for Kings and Lords, or the Peoples' Prerogative," and is a Republican broadside that quotes Napoleon alongside other Republican sentiments. It appears to be very rare: a Google search for the title results in nothing at all. Engel & Serrure 3734. Leitzmann 73. Modesti 1715: "Edito privatamente, quasi a celebrazione del nemico appena battuto ed esiliato, questo libro offre un'ampia panora mica delle medaglie napoleoniche..."
Estimate: 200 USD
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 AND EVENTS DURING HIS DYNASTY. London: Printed for H.R. Young, 1818. J. M'Creery, London, printer. 8vo [21 by 13.5 cm], full navy blue calf, front cover impressed in gilt with a foliated initial N; spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt with five gilt flies in the remaining compartments; marbled endpapers; all page edges marbled. iv, (vii)-xiii, (1), 239, (1) pages [v-vi skipped, as always]; large folding Republican broadside [47.5 by 37 cm] bound in following the main work (see comments). Binding rubbed at extremities, but sound and still attractive. Very good or better. The first edition of this essential work on Napoleonic medals, written while the exiled ruler was still alive. Covering 141 medals, Laskey describes each in some detail and then gives a historical overview of the events being commemorated. An unusual copy, lacking the usually encountered engraved frontispiece portrait, but bound with a folded broadside printed by and for H. Berthold, 16 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, London. The broadside is titled "A Cure for Kings and Lords, or the Peoples' Prerogative," and is a Republican broadside that quotes Napoleon alongside other Republican sentiments. It appears to be very rare: a Google search for the title results in nothing at all. Engel & Serrure 3734. Leitzmann 73. Modesti 1715: "Edito privatamente, quasi a celebrazione del nemico appena battuto ed esiliato, questo libro offre un'ampia panora mica delle medaglie napoleoniche..."
Estimate: 200 USD