BATTLE OF WATERLOO DUKE OF WELLINGTON NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE HAND COLOURED BOOKS

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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NETHERLANDS, IN 1815, UNDER HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, AND MARSHAL PRINCE BLUCHER, COMPRISING THE BATTLES OF LIGNY, QUATRE BRAS, AND WATERLOO. with a detailed narrative of the Political Events connected with those memorable conflicts, down to the surrender of Paris, and the departure of Bonaparte for St. Helena. Illustrated by numerous public and private official documents, and other papers, hitherto unpublished, communicated by officers of the highest distinction. Embellished with a series of plates, descriptive of the country between Brussels and Charleroi, from drawings made on the spot, by James Rouse, Esq. Also a plan of the battles, and a map, shewing the march of the Allied Armies to Paris by WILLIAM MUDFORD. London: For Henry Colburn, 1817. FIRST EDITION 1817. LACKS 2 PLATES, FRONTISPIECE AND FINAL PLATE. Frontispiece replaced with another hand coloured plate. 4to, approximately 325 x 280 mm, 13 x 11 inches, 24 full page plates, aquatints and etchings, all hand-coloured and numbered A - DD, E - W, plates B, D, DD, and L mounted as usual, hand coloured title page, a tipped-in hand coloured plate called: R. Ackerman's Chobham Scenes, 17th Light Dragoons Lancers dated 1853 as frontispiece, double page hand coloured plate of The Batttle of Waterloo, by George Cruikshank, read more