(NAPOLÉON IER) Louis-Alexandre de, comte d'Antraigues LAUNAY
Traduction d'un Fragment du XVIII. Livre de Polybe trouvé dans le monastère Ste Laure au Mont Athos, par le Comte d'Antraigues[Translation of a Fragment from the Eighteenth Book of Polybius Discovered in the Monastery of Saint Laura on Mount Athos, by the Count d’Antraigues]
s. n.|London 1806|12.3 x 19.5 cm|Broché sous étui
Second edition, partly original as revised and enlarged (cf. Monglond VI, 1391.)
Our copy is preserved in its original publisher’s wrappers, under a plain beige cover of the period (disbound, spine lacking, upper cover and title-page detached, small repair in the blank margin of leaf [iii]) and housed in a modern light beige paper case, title lettered lengthwise on a black morocco label.
The first edition, published anonymously, appeared in 1805 (8vo, 80 pp.).
This new edition includes a preface by the purported translator and an errata: this leaf, sig. [vii]-viii, has been placed at the end of the volume.
A virulent pamphlet against Napoleon I, who is here con
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