Napoleons – Album (Napoleon’s Album)

Brinkmeier, Eduard. Napoleons – Album (Napoleon’s Album). Braunschweig: Oehme & Müller, 1842. 8vo. vii. 316,28pp. Three-quarter leather over orange cloth. Gilt decorated spine. Raised bands. Rubbing to spine. Some scuffing, minor abrasions, discoloration and minor staining to boards. Wear to edges. Top front corner bumped and worn. Split along lower spine on front board. Faded decorated page edges. Illustrated half title and title page. Small stamp of previous owner on title page. Tissue guarded color frontispiece. Poems by various poets “praising” Napoleon Bonaparte. Illustrated with 21 engravings after H. Vernet, V. Adam, and A. Meyer. Chronic of Napoleon’s life on 28 pages in rear of book. Text in German, Gothic script. Binding in fair, interior in good condition. fair. Hardcover. (13367) $90