View of the town of Jamestown on the island of Saint Helena, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island in 1815. Ansicht von Jamestown auf der Insel S. Helena. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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