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Bungay: Brightly & Childs, 1815. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. quarto. Type: Book viii, 800; viii, 616: 617 to 1186. 1st printings. Fully bound in original calf. A very lovely set in excellent condition.

Bungay (Suffolk): Brightly & Childs, 1815. very good set in fine contemporary full calf, text and plates are clean.. Binding: contemporary full calf, spine with 6 compartments of gilt tooled bands, red morocco label on two and black morocco label on four., Notes: Published shortly after the momentous Battle of Waterloo and hence the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, this handsome two-volume work gives a detailed account of the origins and progress of the French Revolution. It then goes on to trace the subsequent naval and military campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars around the globe and includes such historic episodes as the Battle of Trafalgar and the Peninsular Campaigns. This substantial account remembers to put factors of political influence into context and continues beyond Waterloo and Napoleon's departure for St. Helena, to the Signature of a General Peace.Biographical Memoirs of Bonaparte, other Principal Persons together with a comprehensive account of the transactions in America and East &… Read More