The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: Volume VIII by Willem Lodewyk Van Ess
1816. No Edition Remarks. 528 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound in brown leather with marble paper covered boards. Ex-Libris stamp to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to other pages. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Major splits to joints with front board barely attached. Gilt lettering is dulled. Heavy peeling to leather spine.