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Napoleon of the Snows
by Adye, John (Major-General Sir)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Nash & Grayson. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. (1931). First Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing and dust stains. Some creasing to the folding map at the rear. Fading to tail of spine. Large losses to dust wrapper at ends of spine and top of rear panel. Tears ans some loss to top of front panel of dust wrapper. ; 279 pages + frontispiece + 11 plates + folding map. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 212 x 137mm. Military history. "A brilliant, and at the same time scholarly, accoutn of Napoleon's Marengo Campaign in the spring of the year 1800." - from dust wrapper blurb. Provenance: Hardwicke Night, with his bookplate "The Library of Hardwicke Knight" on front endpaper. [Seller Ref: KnightCol]; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15196
- Title
- Napoleon of the Snows
- Author
- Adye, John (Major-General Sir)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Nash & Grayson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1931)
- Keywords
- Napoleon Military Battle Of Marengo
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Bookplate
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- Fair
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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