Lot 159
Napoleon
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Memoirs of the history of France during the reign of Napoleon... London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1823-1824. Second edition, 8vo, 4 volumes (of 7?), 5 plates (of 11?), 8 engraved maps, several pages uncut, contemporary grey boards with labels to spines, bookplates, spines a little faded, some bumping to corners, a couple of closed tears to pages with no loss of text, additional copies of pages 155-156 and 207-208 bound in between pages 390 and 391 of volume 2; The fall of Napoleon... London: G.W. Nickison, 1845. 8vo, 3 volumes, original green cloth, bookplates, spines a little faded, a couple of closed and marginal tears with no loss of text; Bourrienne, M. de Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: Richard Bentley, 1836. 8vo, 4 volumes, 4 portraits, 22 (of 28?) plates, 1 folding map, contemporary half calf, bookplates, rubbed, some spotting, a few pages loose, some pages with closed tears, no loss of text; Ségur, Comte de Histoire de Napoléon et de la grande-armée... Paris: Badouin Frères, 1825. Second edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, 1 folding map, contemporary half calf, rubbed, some spotting; Simeon, Stephen Louis The private life of Napoleon. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1894. 8vo, 2 volumes, portraits, contemporary red half calf, bookplates, rubbed, a little damp-staining; And 4 others (19)
Footnote
Provenance: Property of the Trustees of Lord Gretton