Calendario perpetuo di Napoleone e della sua Armata

Features

Author:  s.a.

Publisher:  Stamperia Spampinato

Place of printing:  Palermo

Year of publication:  1835

Product Condition:
Half leather binding with titles and golden decorations on the spine; abrasions to the back, to the headphones and to the hinges. Series of abrasions to the plates, edges and corners. Burnished cuts with traces of dust. Well preserved papers, with scattered blooms. Written and missing in the lower corner of the first guard sheet. First quinterno completely detached: the edges of the cards have small tears. Two plates in the front door and at the end of the volume are missing. Text in Italian language.

Pages:  VIII, 122, (2)

Format:  In the eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  22
Width:  14

Description

In the Preface the author of this curious booklet explains his intent: "Everyone has seen him as a general, consul, emperor and king in twenty years: I want to show him only the Genius of War in a year". In an ideal calendar of 365 days of a year, all the battles fought by Napoleon's armies between 1793 and 1815 are inserted. Unfortunately, the two panels in the front door and at the end of the volume that represented Napoleon's monument in Ajaccio and his tomb are missing. to Sant'Elena.

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