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Imperial bindings. Gérard Souham's Napoleonic Library. Preface…

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LAMORT Anne. Imperial bindings. Gérard Souham's Napoleonic Library. Preface by S.A.I. la princesse Napoléon. Paris, Monelle Hayot, 2004; in-4 red cloth, dust jacket, green cloth case. Essay on the nomenclature of Napoleonic binding irons. The collection described will be sold by Osenat in 2008 - A copy given to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing with a handwritten letter from Gérard Souham.

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LAMORT Anne. Imperial bindings. Gérard Souham's Napoleonic Library. Preface by S.A.I. la princesse Napoléon. Paris, Monelle Hayot, 2004; in-4 red cloth, dust jacket, green cloth case. Essay on the nomenclature of Napoleonic binding irons. The collection described will be sold by Osenat in 2008 - A copy given to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing with a handwritten letter from Gérard Souham.

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