BOBROWICZ Jan Nep[omucen] - Napoleon Bonaparte or Images of the Hero's Battles and Deeds of War; 90 engravings on steel under ...

BOBROWICZ Jan Nep[omucen] - Napoleon Bonaparte or Pictures of the Hero's Battles and Deeds of War; 90 engravings on steel according to the paintings in the Versailles Museum and other monuments with the addition of historical explanations according [...] by ... Leipzig 1838; Nakł. Breitkopf and Haertel. 16d, p. 280, plates 87 [including one fold-out]. binding somewhat late psk. with preserved booklet cover.
Banach 267. Missing 3 (?) plates (double-numbered fold-out plates), prefatory sheet, and pages 23/24 and 6 pages at end with "Apotheosis" and table of contents. Several plates rearranged. Cover heavily rubbed, paper stained and damp in places, margins of covers broch. margins of the booklet covers and some pages crumbled and partly glued by bookbinder (stamp on front pastedown: "J[an Teodor] Hewak Introligator Lwów"), amateur pencil drawings on the backs of two boards, also on the face of one of the boards, some pages with pencil notations - heavily used piece. Ex-library of Kazimierz Marian Ostrowski-Bełza (1880-1941 - lawyer, clerk in Galician Land Department, from 1923 director of the State Tobacco Monopoly). Stamped and signed by the author.Cover title: "Napoleon Bonaparte's Picturesque Chronicle with 90 engravings on steel". A second edition with 100 steel engravings was published three years later. Infrequent.