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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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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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