[Militaria] Campagnes des Français sous le Consulat & l'Empire

Album de cinquante-deux batailles et cent portraits des Maréchaux, Généraux et Personnages le plus illustres de l'époque et le Portrait de Napoléon Ier accompagné d'un fac-simile de sa signature. Collection de 60 planches dit Carle Vernet. Paris, Librarie Rue Visconti, 22, n.d. (ca. 1850), letterpress title page and index, with engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved plates each with 20 portraits and 52 full-page engraved plates, original gilt cloth, all edges gilt, large folio (47.5 x 31.5 cm.).

Here and there with small tears or stains, else inside a good copy. Boards detahced and stained, backstrip partly lacking. Fine print series of the battles of the French army from 22 April 1796 to 8 August 1815, including the entering of Milan, Venice, Berlin, Vienna and Moscow and the Battle of Waterloo and the transfer of Napoleon from the Bellerophon to the Northumberland.