Napoleon, his army and his generals : their unexampled military career, with a sketch of the French Revolution / by an American ; illustrated with numerous elegant engravings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Americana (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.

Napoleon.

France--History--Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.

France.

History.

Europe--History--1789-1815.

Europe.

Penn Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

52, 55-422, x pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Napoleon and his army

Place of Publication:

New-York : Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1848.

Notes:

"This work advances no greater claim to public consideration than that of a compilation ... the compiler has made numerous extracts from the works of Scott, Lockhart, Clarke, and other English authors ..."--Preface.

Local Notes:

Kaplan Collection copy imperfect: p. 387-388 wanting.

Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.

Kaplan Collection copy has stamp, struck through in blue ink and largely illegible, on front free endpaper; effaced, largely illegible autograph ("[...]. [...]. [...] Chicopee, Mass.") in pencil on verso of front free endpaper.

Kaplan Collection copy: illustrations hand-colored.

Kaplan Collection copy has newspaper clipping with photograph (headed: Where France buries its store of gold.) affixed to front pastedown.

OCLC:

40658105