PINOTEAU Hervé. Le Sacre de S. M. l'Empereur Napoléon. Notes historiques. Paris, éditions du Palais-Royal, 1969; small folio, green morocco, gilt roulette and fillets, bee at the corners, Napoleon's coat of arms in the center, ribbed spine decorated with N and crowned eagles, interior roulette, ivory moire lining and endpapers, gilt edges, slipcase (H. Pinoteau - O de Eynde). Reprint of the original, which is impossible to find because it was published over more than ten years and completed after the fall of the Emperor. It is given by H. Pinoteau with notes. The original engravings, numbering 39, plus 13 for the decorations of Notre-Dame, are very well reproduced. The work is of rare technical perfection. One of 16 deluxe copies printed on Japanese imperial paper, bound in bright green morocco, with 4 color portraits added. Very fresh.

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