Null [NAPOLEON] Comte de LAS CASES - Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
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[NAPOLEON] Comte de LAS CASES - Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène From the author and all booksellers in France and abroad, 1823 - A fine copy of the original French edition of this fundamental text on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. This biography of the Emperor grew out of the Emperor's interviews with Emmanuel de Las Cases on St. Helena, and contributed in no small measure to the importance of the Napoleonic myth. Elegant half-carton bindings with smooth spines, brown morocco title-pieces, sunning to spines, fresh interiors, some light foxing but not serious. Complete with the folded hors-texte table (Tracé de Longwood) in volume 2, the folded hors-texte map for the understanding of some chapters of the Italian Campaign dictated by Napoleon in volume 3 and the large folding map of St. Helena in volume 8. (Tulard, Dictionnaire Napoléon, 1038), (Vicaire, V, 73), (Clouzot,184-185) In-8, 484pp (1), 454pp (1), 442pp (1), 460pp (4), 462pp (2), 455pp, 445pp, 527pp (1). Provenance: Louis-Clair de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1778-1854) with bookplate "Bibliothèque d'étioles, Sainte-Aulaire. His library was actually kept at Château d'Etioles.

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[NAPOLEON] Comte de LAS CASES - Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène From the author and all booksellers in France and abroad, 1823 - A fine copy of the original French edition of this fundamental text on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. This biography of the Emperor grew out of the Emperor's interviews with Emmanuel de Las Cases on St. Helena, and contributed in no small measure to the importance of the Napoleonic myth. Elegant half-carton bindings with smooth spines, brown morocco title-pieces, sunning to spines, fresh interiors, some light foxing but not serious. Complete with the folded hors-texte table (Tracé de Longwood) in volume 2, the folded hors-texte map for the understanding of some chapters of the Italian Campaign dictated by Napoleon in volume 3 and the large folding map of St. Helena in volume 8. (Tulard, Dictionnaire Napoléon, 1038), (Vicaire, V, 73), (Clouzot,184-185) In-8, 484pp (1), 454pp (1), 442pp (1), 460pp (4), 462pp (2), 455pp, 445pp, 527pp (1). Provenance: Louis-Clair de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1778-1854) with bookplate "Bibliothèque d'étioles, Sainte-Aulaire. His library was actually kept at Château d'Etioles.

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[Manette]. [XIX]. [History]. [Empire]. [Napoleon]. Lot of books including: -LAS CASES (Comte de). Mémorial de St Hélène. A Paris, chez Ernest Bourdin, en 1842. Two volumes in two volumes, boards with imperial arms on bee background, bound by Boutigny. -SAINT-HILAIRE (Émile Marco de). Histoire anecdotique, politique et militaire de la garde impériale, Paris, Eugène Penaud, 1847. Bound by Curmer. -Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de France sous Napoléon. A Paris, chez Firmin-Didot, 1823. 5 volumes in 5 volumes. Bound in Beaujeux. -LAS CASES (Comte de). Mémorial de St Hélène. A Paris, chez l'auteur, 1823. 7 volumes in 7 volumes, bound by Beaujeux. -MONTGAILLARD (Abbé de). Histoire de France depuis la fin du règne de Louis XVI jusqu'à l'année 1825. A Paris, chez moutardier, 1827. 9 volumes in 9 volumes. As is.

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LAS CASES (Emmanuel de). Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène par le CTE de Las Cases : suivi de Napoléon dans l'exil, Par MM. O'Méara et Antomarchi, et de l'histoire de la traduction des restes mortels de l'Empereur aux Invalides. Paris: Ernest Bourdin, 1842. - 2 volumes in-8, 259 x 171: frontispiece, (2 ff.), vij, 828 pp. 16 plates, 2 maps, frontispiece, (2 ff.), 935 pp. 11 plates. Purple chagrin, special gilt plate on boards, composed of the imperial arms in the center of a bee seedling in a foliage frame, cold-stamped fillets framing the outside, smooth spine adorned with a special gilt plate, gilt edges (Boutigny). Rubbing. First illustrated edition of one of the finest books of the Romantic period, featuring hundreds of vignettes in the text, two maps and 29 plates printed on Chine appliquée, including two frontispieces, wood-engraved mainly after Nicolas Charlet and A. Sandoz, in collaboration with Horace Vernet. The Memorial is completed by three texts: Napoléon en exil by O'Méara, Derniers moments de Napoléon by Antomarchi and Historique de la traduction des restes mortels de l'Empereur Napoléon aux invalides by F. Fayot. The latter two texts are interspersed with Napoleon's will. The work concludes with an appendix containing the Report of Monseigneur le Prince de Joinville to the Minister of the Navy, dated Cherbourg, November 30, 1840, the Act of exhumation and delivery of Napoleon's remains, and the Procès-verbal of the Surgeon-Major of the frigate La Belle-Poule. A fine copy in a publisher's binding signed by Boutigny, one of the most sought-after conditions for this book.

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