Lot 34A

Napoleon.- Wheeler (H.F.B.), and A.M. Broadley) Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror, 3 vol., extra illustrated by the insertion of over c. 200 broadsides, manuscript documents, prints, maps, letters, engraved music scores, facsimiles, and ephemera, 18th - 20th centuries & 1908.

Hammer Price: £1,000

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Napoleon.- Wheeler (H.F.B.), and A.M. Broadley. Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror, 3 vol., extra illustrated, by the insertion of over c. 200 broadsides, prints, maps, letters (including: Hannah More, Prince William, Duke of Clarence and later William IV; Richard Price, philosopher, and political radical, 1723-91; Richard Cumberland playwright and novelist, 1732-1811 (2); Thomas Powlett), manuscript documents (including: General Charles Pichegru, General Grigny, Admiral Bruix, Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse), engraved music scores, facsimiles, and ephemera (including: Peace with all the World!, printed broadside celebrating the Treaty of Amiens, S. Martin, Printer, Birmingham, seemingly unrecorded, [1802]; The Bishop of Llandaff's Thoughts on the French Invasion, [1798]; a receipt for the Voluntary Contribution For the Defence of the Country, 1798; engraved invitation from the Greenwich Association of Anti-Gallicans; A Kibg or a Consul? A New Song to the Tune of Derry Down, Bath and London, S. Hazard and others, [?1799]; The Female Association for Preserving Liberty and Property, James Asperne, 1803; William Wilberforce. Advice Suggested by the State of The Times, J. Asperne and J. Hatchard, [1803]; Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Song is Pizarro, Sung by Mrs. Jordan, in the Character of Cora, The Words by Mr. Sheridan, printed on silk, [c. 1800], all window-mounted or laid down, manuscript contents list of extra illustrations, many plates and other items removed and missing, others loose, late 19th century half morocco, all defective, one vol. completely disbound lacking spine and boards, the others without spines, worn, vol. folio, items v.s., v.d., 18th - 20th centuries & 1908.

Description

Napoleon.- Wheeler (H.F.B.), and A.M. Broadley. Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror, 3 vol., extra illustrated, by the insertion of over c. 200 broadsides, prints, maps, letters (including: Hannah More, Prince William, Duke of Clarence and later William IV; Richard Price, philosopher, and political radical, 1723-91; Richard Cumberland playwright and novelist, 1732-1811 (2); Thomas Powlett), manuscript documents (including: General Charles Pichegru, General Grigny, Admiral Bruix, Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse), engraved music scores, facsimiles, and ephemera (including: Peace with all the World!, printed broadside celebrating the Treaty of Amiens, S. Martin, Printer, Birmingham, seemingly unrecorded, [1802]; The Bishop of Llandaff's Thoughts on the French Invasion, [1798]; a receipt for the Voluntary Contribution For the Defence of the Country, 1798; engraved invitation from the Greenwich Association of Anti-Gallicans; A Kibg or a Consul? A New Song to the Tune of Derry Down, Bath and London, S. Hazard and others, [?1799]; The Female Association for Preserving Liberty and Property, James Asperne, 1803; William Wilberforce. Advice Suggested by the State of The Times, J. Asperne and J. Hatchard, [1803]; Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Song is Pizarro, Sung by Mrs. Jordan, in the Character of Cora, The Words by Mr. Sheridan, printed on silk, [c. 1800], all window-mounted or laid down, manuscript contents list of extra illustrations, many plates and other items removed and missing, others loose, late 19th century half morocco, all defective, one vol. completely disbound lacking spine and boards, the others without spines, worn, vol. folio, items v.s., v.d., 18th - 20th centuries & 1908.

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