‎WRIGHT J. opposite Old Bond street, Piccadilly ( publisher ) - Napoleon BONAPARTE - Admiral Lord NELSON :‎
‎Copies of original letters from the army of General Bonaparte in Egypt, intercepted by the fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson. With an English translation..‎

‎ London, J. Wright, 1798, format in-8°, xxiii pp (with folding frontispiece map) + 248 pp. Bound in later 19th c. polished half leather, Smooth spine with gilt title. Binding discoloured, some wear at the joints, Top turn-in a litle damaged, endpaper unevenly browned, interior fine, without stains or foxing. Still an acceptable copy . With the printed armorial bookplate of Thomas Somers Vernon Cocks. One of the first books published in English (with French texts of the letters) on the exploits of this Frenchman.‎

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