Author: [Napoleon] Pommereul, F.R.J.; Berthier, L.A.; Denon, V.; Miot, J.; Petit, J., et al:
Title: Original Journals of the Eighteen Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte; Comprising all those in which he personally commanded in chief: Translated from the French. To which are added all the Bulletins relating to each campaign, now first published complete. […]
Description: London: J. Davis, 1816-17. 2 vols., [iv], [vi], [iv], 5-550; [ii], 209, [i], 441, [i]. Eccentric signatures, but pagination and text are correct. Sporadic light foxing. Vol. I with bookseller's notes to ffep, M4 with loss to fore-edge margin not affecting text, a few leaves short at fore-edge. Vol. II with quite a few pages unopened at head edge. Contemporary dark green quarter cloth, drab paper-covered boards, spines gilt ruled with red labels. Worn, some splashes and marks to spines, loss to edge of vol. II label, end caps and corners frayed, edges worn, externally a little shabby but unsophisticated and sound. Each volume with bookplate of William Bartlett to front pastedown and illegible ownership inscription to head of title-page. Very scarce in the UK and Ireland. WorldCat finds physical copies at the National Library of Ireland and Hull Central Library; LibraryHub adds a copy at Senate House Library, though catalogued with a date of 1920, so perhaps a reprint. Contents as follows: [Pommereul, F. R. J. de] Campaign of General Bonaparte in Italy, 1796-7; Berthier, L. A. Original journal of the second campaign of Bonaparte, being the campaign in Egypt and Syria, in the year 1798 and the operations of General Desaix in Upper Egypt; Journal in Upper and Lower Egypt... during the campaigns of General Bonaparte in that country; Miot, J. M. Narrative of the French expedition to Egypt and Syria; Petit, C. Journal of the campaign in Marengo, in Italy, 1799. Journal during the siege of Genoa. Official narratives of the campaigns of Buonaparte, since the peace of Amiens. Being a complete collection of the whole of the bulletins pub. by Buonaparte to his abdication: Campaign in Germany, 1805; in Prussia, 1806-7; in Germany, 1809; in Russia, 1812; in Germany, 1813; in France, 1814; Campaign and battle of Waterloo, 1815; Marshal Ney's account of the battle of Waterloo.

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