47 - AUBENAS (Joseph-Adolphe). History of Empress Josephine. Paris: Amyot, publisher of the works of Napoleon III and *La Semaine politique*, 1857–1859. 2 vols., in-8, red half-basane, smooth spine with gold fillet, title and volume number in gold (contemporary binding). Slight scuffing.

AUBENAS (Joseph-Adolphe). History of Empress Josephine. Paris: Amyot, publisher of the works of Napoleon III and *La Semaine politique*, 1857–1859. 2 vols., in-8, red half-basane, smooth spine with gold fillet, title and volume number in gold (contemporary binding). Slight scuffing. Includes the complete set of Bingham’s photographic prints of a portrait of the Empress as a frontispiece. Complete two-volume first edition, following an earlier first edition of Volume I published in Fort-de-France, Martinique, in 1855. Volume II was first published in 1859. An important biography of Joséphine de Beauharnais, based in particular on family documents and contemporary accounts. Aubenas, a magistrate and historian, spent time in Martinique, where he was able to conduct research on the Empress’s origins.