Sir Robert Ker Porter: A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, During the Year 1812

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Sir Robert Ker Porter : A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, During the Year 1812

Edward J. Coale, Baltimore, 1814

Contemporary ½ calf with brownstone marble boards and thin gilt borders, rebacked tastefully in traditional gilt style, five compartments of gilt-tooled bands, gilt green morocco label on two, gilt text on six, edges and endpapers marbled. , Occasional mild browning, otherwise a very good to fine copy. , 8vo, P. frontis, title, contents v-viii, 9-419, advertisement., Complete with frontispiece portrait of Prince Koutousoff, and 2 folding maps of the movement of the French army.

This book tells of Napoleon’s campaign in Russia during the winter of 1812 and his subsequent defeat. The two hand-coloured maps show the advance and retreat of the French army on its route to Moscow. This book ran many editions in England and America, entering its third edition within two years.

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