A Living skeleton!! Authentic memoir of that singular human prodigy Claude Seurat, denominated the Living Skeleton, who arrived in London from the Continent in July, 1825. In which is contained a circumstantial detail of his person ... together with an account of his manners, habits, etc. ... / Illustrated ... by Robert Cruikshank.

  • Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841.
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Credit: A Living skeleton!! Authentic memoir of that singular human prodigy Claude Seurat, denominated the Living Skeleton, who arrived in London from the Continent in July, 1825. In which is contained a circumstantial detail of his person ... together with an account of his manners, habits, etc. ... / Illustrated ... by Robert Cruikshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THIRD VOLUME OF IRELAND S LIFE OF NAPOLEON. On Saturday, March the 19th, 1825, was published. No. 33, embellished with one of the most tcresting Plates hitherto engraved, namely, the meeting of NAPOLEON and the EMPEI ALEXANDER upon the Raft on the Niemf.n, after the Treaty of Tilsit, (being Second number of the Third Volume of the Work) and which will be regularly continued wit interruption, till completed, comprising in the Whole Forty-eight Numbers, price One Shilling ea TO THE PUBLIC. We are now arrived at the most interesting period of Napoleon’s career, and commenced third and last Volume of our undertaking ; the Editor deems it expedient to acquaint his read that he finds himself compelled to increase the present volume by one number more than wa the Second Volume, namely, seventeen numbers. As an apology, however, for such extension, beg leave to remark, that the mass of curious incidents and anecdotic matter is such as to precl the possibility of curtailment, and to do justice to the history of Bonaparte, and the duty wl we owe to the public. Ireland’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte details every particular of his astonishing Car both as aGeneialand a Legislator, during the Republican, the Consular, and the Imperial veruments; interspersed with numerous Anecdotes of his public and private Life, from his B: in the Island of Corsica, to the period of his Death at St. Helena, including, also, Biograph Memoirs of celebrated Military, Political, and Scientific Characters, who flourished from the volution to the termination of the Imperial Dynasty. The work is illustrated with colou Quarto Plates of Napoleon’s Batti es, engraved by Mr. George Cruikshank, from the Desi of C. Vernet, Denon, Sweuach, Girard, Isabey, &c. originally etched at Paris, by Du Pli Behteaux, Dequevauvilers, Bovinet, Lavachez, &c. EMBELLISHMENTS. The PLATES already published in this Work are—1. Napoleon at the sanguinary Battle of Bridge of Lodi.—2. Napoleon forcing the Passage of the Bridge of Areola.—3. Napoleon Augereau in the Heat of the Battle of St. George.—4. Napoleon and his Army effecting the w derful Passage of the Alps, at Mount St. Bernard.—5. Napoleon and Massena defeating the Austi Army at the Battle of Rovercdo.—6. Passage and Battle of the River Tagliamento.—7. Na Icon defeating the Mamelukes at the Battle of the Pyramids, near Cario.—8. Napoleon Bonapa on bis celebrated White Charger, Frontispiece to the First Volume of the Work.—9. The Att and Capture of Naples, by the French, after a most obstinate resistance.—10. Napoleon i Kleber defeating the Mamelukes at the Battle of Mount Thabor.—11. Napoleon’s Bivouac night preceding the memorable Battle of Austerlitz.—12. Napoleon receiving from General Ri the Austrian Standard, surrendered at Austerlitz.—13. Napoleon’s decisive Victory over Austrians, at the Battle of Marengo.—14. Napoleon defeating the Turkish Pacha, at the Bai ofAboukir.—15. Napoleon, when First Consul, and Madame Josephine, (his first Wife) in Garden at Malmaison, Frontispiece to the Second Volume of the Work.—10. Napoleon receiving Sword of General Mack, on the Capitulation of Ulm. N. B. The First and Second Volumes of this work may be had in Extra Boards, or in neat hi binding, done with hollow Backs, so as to admit the Plates to open freely, without injuring th( Trice of the First Volume in Boards 10s. and of the Second Volume 17s.