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18033595823/05/1803. <blockquote><p>James Monroe and Robert Livingston receive the Treaty signed by Napoleon notification of French ratification and instructions from the French: Deliver this ""to the President of the United States without delay to do what must be done"" and secure American ratification</p><p> </p><p>This doubled the size of the United States and is one of the most significant moments in American history; In 2019 this document was saved from a fire at the Karpeles Manuscript Library and survived</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>This document central to the Louisiana Purchase is among the most important we have ever carried</p><p> </p></blockquote><p>https://vimeo.com/1180578110share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci</p><p> </p><blockquote><p>Hear more on <a href=""https://www.raabcollection.com/tags/podcast"">Inspired by History</a>:</p><p> </p><p><iframe style=""width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;"" src=""https://embed.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-historic-manuscript-central-to-the-louisiana-purchase/id1796821278i=1000761089641"" height=""175"" frameborder=""0"" sandbox=""allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation""></iframe></p></blockquote><p>The Louisiana Purchase stands as one of the most transformative acts in American history instantly doubling the size of the young republic and securing U.S. control of the Mississippi River and the vital port of New Orleans. Negotiated at a moment of shifting global power—amid Napoleon’s imperial ambitions the threat of imminent renewed war with Great Britain and the collapse of French plans in the Caribbean—the agreement reshaped the geopolitical balance of North America and set the United States on a path toward continental expansion and emergence as a major world power.</p><p>As the United States had spread across the Appalachians the Mississippi River became an increasingly important conduit for the produce of America’s West which at that time referred to the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi. Since 1762 Spain had owned the territory of Louisiana which included 828000 square miles. The territory made up all or part of fifteen modern U.S. states between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. The Pinckney Treaty of 1795 had resolved friction between Spain and the United States over the right to navigate the Mississippi and the right for Americans to transfer their goods to ocean-going vessels at New Orleans. With the Pinckney treaty in place and the weak Spanish empire in control of Louisiana American statesmen felt comfortable that the United States’ westward expansion would not be restricted in the future.</p><p>This situation was threatened by Napoleon Bonaparte’s plans to revive the French empire in the New World. He planned to recapture the valuable sugar colony of Haiti from a slave rebellion and then use Louisiana as the granary for his empire. France acquired Louisiana from Spain in 1800 and took possession in 1802 sending a large French army to St. Domingue and preparing to send another to New Orleans. Americans became very apprehensive about having the more-powerful French in control of the Mississippi and New Orleans. President Thomas Jefferson noted “There is on the globe one single spot the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans.†He determined to do something to change this situation.</p><p>In addition to making military preparations for a conflict in the Mississippi Valley in April 1803 Jefferson sent former Minister to France James Monroe to join present Minister to France Robert Livingston to try to purchase New Orleans and West Florida for as much as $10 million. Failing that they were to attempt to create a military alliance with England. Meanwhile the French Army in St. Domingue was being decimated by yellow fever and war between France and England was on the horizon. Napoleon decided to give up his plans for Louisiana and offered a surprised Monroe and Livingston the entire territory of Louisiana - all 828000 square miles of it - for $15 million. That was three cents per acre. Although buying all of Louisiana far exceeded their instructions from President Jefferson Monroe and Livingston saw the golden opportunity and agreed. The treaty was signed on April 30 1803.</p><p>The treaty itself actually consisted of three linked agreements: the Treaty of Cession by which France transferred the Louisiana territory to the United States and guaranteed rights of property religion and eventual citizenship to its inhabitants; a first convention establishing that the United States would pay 60 million francs about $11.25 million to France through government bonds as the purchase price; and a second convention by which the United States assumed 20 million francs about $3.75 million in claims owed to American citizens for prior French seizures and commercial losses. Together these three instruments formed the full legal structure of the purchase bringing the total cost to 80 million francs or roughly $15 million.</p><p>The French ratification of the Louisiana treaty and conventions was dated May 22nd and signed by Bonaparte Foreign Minister Talleyrand Minister of the Treasury Barbé de Marbois and Hugues Bernard Maret who as the secretary of state was responsible for promulgating laws and decrees. It was delivered to the representatives of the United States Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe who here sign to acknowledge receipt of the treaty to be sent to President Thomas Jefferson ""without delay.""</p><p>Historic <strong>manuscript</strong> DS <strong>signed</strong> <em>""Jas. Monroe""</em> <em>""Rob. R. Livingston""</em> and ""Barbé Marbois"" in French Paris May 23 1803 being the monumental document recording France's sale to the US of Louisiana just approved by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French government.</p><p><em>""Today May 23 1803 we Barbé-Marbois Minister of the Public Treasury named by the French People as Minister Plenipotentiary and Robert R. Livingston Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America and James Monroe Minister Plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinaire of the said States at a meeting in one of the rooms of the Hotel du Public Treasury in Paris Citizen Barbé-Marbois transmitted to us Robert Livingston and James Monroe: 1. The treaty concluded and signed by us on 10 Floreal an 11 30 April 1803 and the two conventions concluded and signed by us on the same date. Said treaty and conventions in three separate instruments written on vellum parchment and bearing the grand seal of the French Republic imprinted in red wax ratified by the First Consul Napoleon of the French Republic signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ch. Mau. Talleyrand and countersigned by the Secretary of State Hugues B. Maret; therefore the said treaty and conventions are to be sent by us to the President of the United States without delay and for him to take the necessary steps. For which we have signed the present document in two copies one for the French ambassador and one for the American ambassadors.""</em> With loss to one letter of Monroe's signature.</p><p>It is interesting to note that Barbé Marbois who played a key role in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase Treaty and delivered the signed ratification was former ambassador to the United States and had lived in the U.S. for years spoke English and married an American. He was well connected in the U.S. and was elected a Foreign Honorary Member to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences John Hancock and John Adams were also members and the American Philosophical Society Thomas Jefferson was also a member and the two dealt extensively. He was a logical choice to negotiate the treaty.</p><p>There was some delay in getting the ratified treaty to the United States and Jefferson did not see the treaty until early July 1803. When news of the sale reached the United States people were incredulous and mostly elated. President Jefferson however was in a quandary. He had always advocated strict adherence to the letter of the Constitution yet there was no provision empowering him to purchase territory. Given the public support for the purchase and the obvious value of Louisiana to the future growth of the United States however Jefferson decided to ignore the legalistic interpretation of the Constitution and forgo the passage of a Constitutional amendment to validate the purchase. This decision contributed to the principle of implied powers of the federal government.</p><p>Because the treaty stipulated that the American ratification must be concluded by October 30 Jefferson hurriedly convened a special session of Congress on October 17. The United States Senate consented to ratification of the treaty with a vote of 24 to 7 on October 20. On the following day October 21 1803 the Senate authorized Jefferson to exchange the ratification document with France take possession of the territory and establish a temporary government.</p><p>In very good condition with repaired loss to the right edge truncating the final letter of Monroe's signature.</p><p>This document central to one of the most significant moments in American history is one of the most important we have ever carried. It is from the famed collection of The Karpeles Manuscript Library from which it was rescued during a fire in 2019.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> hardcover
1812306091812. <blockquote><p>It is based on an 1809 intelligence operation that Napoleon commissioned to chart Persia Russia and the steppes</p><p> </p><p>A remarkable and apparently unpublished manuscript documenting Russia and its environs in the early 1800s fascinating for that purpose as well</p><p> </p><p>Acquired from the direct descendants and never before offered for sale</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>""Resistance could only result in the burning by the assailant of a large part of the wooden houses of Moscow""</p></blockquote><blockquote><p> </p><p>""Minsk is a town of 10000 inhabitants of which two thirds are Jewish.""</p></blockquote><p> </p><p>https://vimeo.com/916160568share=copy</p><p>In 1803 Camille Alphonse Trezel obtained the rank of lieutenant in the corps of topographical engineers. The next year he was promoted to assistant engineer geographer. After the Polish campaign as a lieutenant he was appointed acting aide to General Gardanne in the embassy of France to Persia. He was commissioned at this time by Napoleon to take extensive notes topographical geographical and otherwise of Persia and its environs. On his return he came through Russia. On his return to France he was promoted to Captain in late 1810 / early 1811 and assigned as an aide-de-camp to General Armand Charles Guilleminot; he became lieutenant-commander in 1813. Napoleon aimed to defeat not only Russia but England and the latter in part through India. Trezel and Gardanne in 1809 were tasked to survey the vast regions that would have to be crossed and to probe the dispositions of the populations and as evidenced here did so.</p><p>Trezel's notes on Persia are published and important primary resources for the period and region. We found no record of the publication of his notes on Russia.</p><p>In May and June 1812 Napoleon turned to mapping the pending invasion of Russia and finding the correct route. He had few great options. As the published papers of Napoleon state ""Despite the efforts of his geographical engineers Napoleon never had good maps of Russia throughout the campaign. To compensate for this shortage the Paris topographical office should have drawn large numbers of the few available maps and given them to the corps commanders. This was not done on the scale that the emperor wanted.†He complained during this stretch that he needed more routes to Russia that one would not suffice for planning and he wrote to Generals Clarke and Berthier complaining on this subject.</p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-30623"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20240216175221/Mouton-Russia-Manuscript-1812-L-1-1600x740.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""740"" /></p><p>On June 24 1812 Napoleon commenced his famed campaign in Russia ordering his Grande Armée the largest European military force ever assembled to that date into Russia. The enormous army featured more than 500000 soldiers and staff and included contingents from Prussia Austria and other countries under the sway of the French empire. The campaign would be characterized by the massive toll on human life: in less than six months Napoleon lost near half of his men because of the extreme weather conditions battle disease and hunger. On both sides nearly a million soldiers and civilians died.</p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-30624"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20240216175843/Mouton-Russia-Manuscript-1812-J-1-1600x820.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""820"" /></p><p>General Mouton the Count of Lobau was a prominent general and later Marshall of the Empire for Napoleon. Mouton means ""lamb"" in French the source of Napoleon's now famous statement on Mouton: ""My lamb is a lion."" Napoleon valued Mouton to the extent that for his great Russia campaign he made him senior aide to camp. In 1806 Mouton was a Brigade General. He would remain in Napoleon's service until the end of the Empire during which time he showed himself to be forthright direct “he's no fawner†Napoleon is noted to have said but also disciplined loyal meticulous and highly organized. He was at Austerlitz with Napoleon and was charged with the preparation of the campaigns in Spain 1808 Russia 1812 Germany 1813 and Belgium 1815. Napoleon also wrote “Mouton is the best colonel to have ever commanded a French regiment.†In 1812 Mouton took an active part in the planning and enacting of the Russian campaign. When Napoleon left the army during the retreat and returned to Paris Mouton accompanied him.</p><p><strong>Manuscript</strong> in the hand of an intelligence officer likely from the topographical department from the Library of Georges Mouton no date but likely late Spring 1812. The manuscript notes the position of Trezel as Captain and aide to camp for Guilleminot a position Trezel effectively occupied between 1811 and 1812. It appears to be a shortened version of the report from the 1809 intelligence operation that Napoleon commissioned. Our gratitude to the Fondation Napoleon for their generous assistance.</p><p><em>""Notes on the Route from Warsaw to Moscow by Tykoezinn frontier of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw 47 leagues Grodno 77 leagues Mir 133 Mink 158 Orzay 208 Smolensk 237 and Moscow 333. Extracts from a voyage made in July 1809 by Captain Trezel aid de camp of General Guilleminot.""</em></p><p><strong>The following are quotes from the report:</strong></p><p><em>""The country between Warsaw and Moscow can be divided in three distinct parts separated from each other by large rivers or by old political limits recent changed by a great usurpation but which remains in the hearts of the inhabitants of old Poland.""</em></p><p><em>""The first part enclosed by the Vistule and the Niemen has 77 leagues of length and the Neiman has 77 leagues of length. The route that goes through it passes by a good number of little towns among them the towns of the route that goes through it passes by a good number of little towns among them the towns of Siroska Pultuska Ostrolenka and Byalistok are the largest.""</em></p><p> </p><p><em>""The second from Grodno to Orzay has 125 leagues. It includes old Palatinate of Troki Minsk part of that of Vitebsk all the high parts of the Niemen and also those of the Dnieper to the right bank of the Pleure beyond which starts the Russian government of Smolensk. The route passes by the towns of Norogrodek Mir Minsk Barisow Toloezinn Orzay and Doubrovka.""</em></p><p><em>""The third part between Smolensk and Moscow is entirely in old Russia. It's length by the route is 131 leagues. One finds in succession the towns of Dorogouer Viarnie Gradsk and Moyaiska. This last part is the most fertile and the most populated.""</em></p><p><em>""All these countries present more or less the same aspect. There are still immense plains in which the slopes are nearly undetectable and which offer everywhere swamps and prairies grand forests of birch and fir trees sandy fields.""</em></p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-30625"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20240216180100/Mouton-Russia-Manuscript-1812-G-1-1600x828.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""828"" /></p><p><em>""Care is particularly necessary and the third part which forms a sandy field elevated between the sources of the Duna the Dnieper the Locka and the Volga. From Warsaw to the Dnieper at Orzay the routes are generally very difficult for the carts and because even impassible at a great number of points during times of thaw and great rains. It would be necessary to make them viable in these seasons by burying a part of the wood found there. A regular system of works would find few difficulties in the execution because the Polish countrymen is accustomed to it and their hatred toward Russia would serve them to work in the hopes of a return to the former limits.</em></p><p><em>""Resources for provisioning are unequally spread along this long route. Strong and vigilant administration would certainly succeeded in nourishing a grand Army from Warsaw to Norogrodek. But the swampy forests of the government of Minsk offers only a few groups of large cattle. And difficulties of all types become their much larger and more numerous than any other part. It is necessary that the fertile government of Vilna suffices. In any case one no longer finds to the right of the route anything except immense swamps of Pinsk on which one must travel by boat during half of the year. One only exits this beyond Toloczinn a small town distance from Minsk by around 40 leagues.""</em></p><p>The manuscript continues to discuss the dedication of national spirit <em>""in all classes""</em>. Only the poorest nobility it states would want to join the Russian Army. Many it continues are unmoved by any advantages offered them by Tsar Paul I ruler until 1801 and <em>""remain far from all public functions and hide very poorly their aversion for anything Russian. All the officers of the government are forced to live completely isolated. Beyond Toloczinn the columns would march with along the beautiful routes of the government of Smolensk and of Mohilow both abundant with grain and cattle.""</em></p><p>One finds still fewer animals approaching Moscow and this town pulls all its provisions of cattle from Ukraine and above all from the government of Pultava.</p><p><em>""The river passages are many but the majority are easy to execute because beyond the Vistule one finds no longer any impediments. Nearly all the bridges are firm. Pontoon bridges could nearly everywhere be employed at least for the passage and movement of artillery and field baggage because the rivers have such a tranquil course that the pontoons could be very close to one another without causing any accident.""</em></p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-30626"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20240216180205/Mouton-Russia-Manuscript-1812-C-1-1600x702.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""702"" /></p><p><em>""The best points of passage are:""</em></p><p>The manuscript now moves to the rivers and the possible bridge crossings of Warsaw Syroska Ostrolenka Tykoczinn Grodon Barisow Orzay and Smolensk. This includes the Dnieper and Vistule and other waterways along with the size and strength of the bridges.</p><p>""Itinerary from Warsaw to Moscow by Grodno and Smolensk""</p><p>The bulk of the manuscript begins here by listing the post stations of locale along with its distance in the antiquated Russian measure of Werstes and also in Leagues and population in number of houses. This is accomplished using a charge which lists left to right distance name of location number of homes and 'observations.' The indication of the number of houses of each one is only an approximation and relates solely to groups of habitations that could be perceived on the route.</p><p>What follows is a remarkable 5 two-page spreads of each station between Warsaw and Moscow with observations intended to instruct an invading army. They are at once military observations and a fascinating cultural demographic and geographical account of the region. The names are in some cases obscure or antiquated spellings including Moscow which is Mouscou and not Moscou as one would expect in French.</p><p>Manuscript: The manuscript begins in Warsaw or Varsovie: <em>""In leaving Warsaw one crosses the Vistule on a boat bridge. The length of the river is around 300. It is very quick the banks are accessible and a little elevated.""</em> The manuscript notes it is a town of 10000 houses.</p><p>The march to Russia: On June 24 1812 and subsequent days the initial wave of the Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Niemen River marking the entry from the Duchy of Warsaw.</p><p>Manuscript: Trezel notes that at Miaskovo in Poland still and beyond Ostrolenka <em>""The Russians had established a hospital for 300 sick"".</em> The next large town is Bialystock. Here he notes <em>""A great village named Vassilkoff around halfway down the path from Bialystock to Boukstell. The path is in a sandy plain for an hour after which one passes on a fixed bridge over a river of 25 toises of length with a reed rope. The final league is follows on the right a sandy and rocky field. They have planted ash and other trees. Two batallions of grenadiers were camped a half league from Trokolska.""</em></p><p>The chart now takes us into Belarus and toward Grodno. <em>""Grodno is an open town on the right bank of the Niemen. To enter one crosses the river on a large boat bridge. The banks are strongly inclined.Immediately above the bridge on the right is a large amphitheater surrounded by homes. One sees on the other side of town on the right and to the left of the route from Smolensk ruins of defensive fortifications. It is fertile in grain.""</em> The manuscript notes 2000 houses.</p><p>The march to Russia. On July 1 Jerome Bonaparte’s right flank crossed the Niemen at Grodno. The VII Corps stayed in the Grodno region to protect the Duchy of Warsaw.</p><p>The manuscript: <em>""There are many swamps between Lyda and Lipini. Exiting Lyda one crosses a bridge in the middle of which is an old ruined chateau. The post house of Lapini is immediately beyond a river of 16 or 17 toises.One crosses the bridge on a large square boat that could carry two strong carts.""</em></p><p>The march to Russia: On June 27 the Russian corps stationed between Lida and Grodno was almost cut off by the Grande Armée's crossing of the Niemen and Gen. Davout's troops making for Minsk.</p><p>The manuscript: <em>""Mir is the last town of the government of Grodno. I did not enter here because the post is outside and near an old abandoned chateau belonging to the Prince of Radniville. It is flanked by 4 paths a grassy rampe. The door has been removed the rest falls into ruins.""</em></p><p>The march to Russia: With Jerome's troops trailing the retreating Russian Army Platov's cossacks ambushed Jerome's advanced Polish lancers on July 8 - 10 near the village and Mir. These clashes were the first real combat of the campaign and saw the Polish troops defeated.</p><p>The manuscript: <em>""Minsk is a town of 10000 inhabitants of which two thirds are Jewish. It is located on a little river of 20-35 toises of length bordered by a lovely promenade. One crosses on a good bridge. The roads are straight and wide and the houses spaced between each other. They are nearly all in wood. The territory is without comparison the worst path of those that one pases to go to Moscow. The population has retained the Polish cavalry. The entire population of all classes retains the most pronounced aversion to the Russians. There are only the poorest nobility who wanted to take up service.""</em></p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-30627"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20240216181202/Mouton-Russia-Manuscript-1812-E-2-1600x740.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""740"" /></p><p>The march to Russia: On July 8 Davout's troops reached Minsk. He lost many troops on the way there. Large store houses were constructed here.</p><p>The manuscript: <em>""We are approaching Russia. Near Zadinn and Barisow he notes the river Bereczina whose ""right bank forms an sandy escarpment of which the slope is steep but practicable to cars. There is on this bank a settlement of around 30 homes. I found there an artillery park of the 25th miitary division Siberia.""</em></p><p>In approaching Smolensk he passes through a tiny town he calls ""Reritnia."" He notes a rampart ""flanked by by a few towers. Its height is around 30 feet and thickness around 6 feet at most. It is entirely vested and supported in the interior by brick arcades. It's only defense would be a fusillade by the large pines that crown it and one could ruin this all in less than one hour with canons. One would seize very easily the high neighborhood and two beautiful churches one of which is surrounded by a wall crenelated with bricks. The passage from the Dnieper would not present much difficulty because one could crush anyone who remained in the settlement on the right bank.""</p><p>The march to Russia: On the afternoon of August 15 troops under Murat and Ney arrived at the western edge of Smolensk. Over the course of the next two days Ney's and Murat's troops along with Poniatowski's Polish Corps clashed with the Russians pitched in Smolensk. About 11000 Russians died defending the city which fell to the French and was a major depot for the troops heading east.</p><p>The manuscript: <em>""Moscow is enclosed only an earthen rise of 3 feet in height. One could attempt to defend the passage from Moskova. but this resistance could only result in the burning by the assailant of a large part of the wooden houses of Moscow. One could hold up there peacefully occupying the interior chateau called the Kremts Kremlin which is situated on the Moskwa more or less in the middle of the town. It contains 2 churches the arsenal several considerable columns.""</em></p><p>The march to Russia: On September 14 the French entered Moscow only to find it abandoned. All but a few thousand of the city’s 275000 people were gone. Napoleon retired to a house on the outskirts of the city for the night but two hours after midnight he was informed that a fire had broken out in the city. He went to the Kremlin where he watched the flames continue to grow. Reports began to come in telling of Russians starting the fires and stoking the flames. Suddenly a fire broke out within the Kremlin apparently set by a Russian military policeman who was immediately executed. With the firestorm spreading Napoleon and his entourage were forced to flee down burning streets to Moscow’s outskirts and narrowly avoided being asphyxiated. When the flames died down three days later more than two-thirds of the city was destroyed. The images of Moscow on fire are iconic; many great works of art depict the event.</p><p>The 14-page manuscript is an extraordinary piece of history the survival of which was unknown until now: notes used to plan and help guide Napoleon and his Grand Armees in their invasion of Russia.</p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-25018"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
1885117078London: Richard Bentley and Son 1885. Exceedingly rare edition of M. de Bourrienne's Life of Napoleon extra-illustrated with additional portraits and views and over 50 autograph letters and notes signed by Napoleon I members of his family associates and the author bound in. Octavo bound in three quarters scarlet morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt with others uncut tissue-guarded frontispiece and full color portrait to each volume illustrated with engravings issued in the initial publication and over 100 extra portraits and views bound in. With over 50 autograph letters signed bound in including 3 autograph letters signed by Napoleon I bound into Vol. I page 201 Vol. I page 369 and Vol. III page 530 and autograph letters signed by Charles J. Bernadotte King of Spain; Joseph Bonaparte King of Spain; Fauvelet de Bourrienne; A.A.L. Caulincort Duc de Vicenza; Marquis Emmanuel Grouchy; Napoleon's second wife Marie Louise. Duchess of Parma; Joachim Murat King of Naples; Comte Horace Sebastiani and Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington among others. With the original compiler's printed catalog of extra material detailing the location volume and page number of each added engraving and autograph letter signed. In near fine condition. Accompanied by an additional military endorsement signed by Napoleon during the Peninsular War "Approuvé Np." An exceptional collection of significant Napoleonic era signatures. French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815. One of the greatest commanders in history his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide. He also remains one of the most celebrated and controversial political figures in human history. Based on years of intimate friendship and professional association with Napoleon Bonaparte Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon gained the author fame upon publication for its vivid and detailed account of his interactions with Napoleon and his extended family. Invigorated by many dialogues not only in which the author participated but even of conversations that he was only told about by others the narration offers an intimate portrait of its subject: his brilliance skill at governance and military prowess. Richard Bentley and Son unknown
18361284121836. First Edition. Signed. NAPOLEON DE BOURRIENNE Louis Antoine Fauvelet. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. By His Private Secretary. To Which Are Now First Added An Account of the Important Events of The Hundred Days of Napoleon's Surrender to The English And of His Residence And Death at St. Helena. London: Richard Bentley 1836. Four volumes bound in eight. Octavo late 19th-century full red morocco raised bands spines and boards elaborately gilt-decorated with Napoleonic emblems blue and red morocco gilt doublures watered silk endpapers all edges gilt. Housed together in a custom slipcase. $25000.Expanded edition of de Bourriennes classic biography of Napoleon with 27 plates a facsimile of Napoleons abdication and a folding map depicting the Battle of the Nile expanded to from four volumes to eight and abundantly extra-illustrated with about 300 engraved plates including portraits scenes views and maps with a document signed by Napoleon bound into the front of the first volume. Beautifully bound by Sangosrki & Sutcliffe in full morocco with Napoleonic emblems in gilt.""Bourrienne a French statesman studied at the military school of Brienne where he was on friendly terms with the young Napoleon. In 1797 he became Napoleon's secretary"" an appointment which ""continued during all the most brilliant part of Napoleon's career"" and afforded him the intimacy upon which the Memoirs are based CBD:189; preface. ""The fame of Bourrienne rests not upon his achievements or his original works but upon his Memoirs"" Britannica. First published in French in 1829; in English translation in 1830. Bound into the first volume is a manuscript document from 1799 signed by Napoleon as ""Bonaparte"". The document a manuscript letter concerns the operations of the French Army in Egypt; it reads in part: ""Take advantage of the days when General Dugua can stay at Damietta to disarm the army there arrest suspect men and send them to Cairo. Disarm the villages take hostages and take complete control of Lake Manzala. As long as you are not master of this lake you cannot be sure of controlling Damietta. I am writing to General Dugua that he is to reconnoiter the shores of the sea Try to learn the name of the English frigate and if you should learn that they are disembarking somewhere to get provisions let them disembark for a few days in order to have the time to take them in an ambush. The Province of Damietta should already have supplied the horses that it has to supply. I salute you. signed Bonaparte."""" General Dugua was in charge of the fifth division of the French Army during the Egypt Campaign serving as commander of Cairo from February of 1799 until March of 1800 when he returned to France. With a typed index to all of the extra illustrations. Napoleon document with unobtrusive evidence of glue removal along one edge; joints to beautiful bindings expertly repaired. hardcover
18083045219/12/1808. <blockquote><p>A letter never before offered for sale acquired from the direct US-based descendants of the recipient; it does not appear in the published works of Napoleon or online at the Fondation Napoleon</p><p> </p><p>Napoleon's letters mentioning the surrender at Bailen are great rarities and we have not seen one having been sold publicly</p></blockquote><p>The Battle of Bailén was fought in 1808 between the Spanish Army of Andalusia led by General Francisco Javier Castaños and the Imperial French Army's II corps d'observation de la Gironde under General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang. This battle was the first open-field defeat of a Napoleonic army. The heaviest fighting took place near Bailén sometimes anglicized Baylen a village by the Guadalquivir River in the Jaén province of southern Spain.</p><p>The defeat was total. Dupont surrendered all his forces those who were not killed instead of fighting his way out. Napoleon considered it a great treachery the biggest blow to his ego to date. Apart from the blow to French prestige Bailén threw the French invasion forces—faltering after their failure to secure Gerona Zaragoza Valencia Barcelona and Santander and with the country rapidly arming and mobilizing against them—into panic and disarray. With the sudden loss of 20000 troops Napoleon's military machine abruptly fell apart and had to be put back together.</p><p>The fate of the prisoners was tragic in most cases. Dupont had surrendered with the understanding that his men would be allowed back to France. But his Spanish opponents once the surrender occurred did not honor the agreement and instead most of the 20000 or so captured were sent west and ended on vessels the vast majority eventually dying. A few among them Dupont were sent back to France to Rochefort and from there made their way back to the front lines to be incorporated into the ranks.</p><p>General Mouton the Count of Lobau was a prominent general and later Marshall of the Empire for Napoleon. Mouton means ""lamb"" in French the source of Napoleon's now famous statement on Mouton: ""My lamb is a lion."" Napoleon valued Mouton to the extent that for his great Russia campaign he made him senior aide to camp. In 1806 Mouton was a Brigade General. He would remain in Napoleon's service until the end of the Empire during which time he showed himself to be forthright direct “he's no fawner†Napoleon is noted to have said but also disciplined loyal meticulous and highly organized. He was at Austerlitz with Napoleon and was charged with the preparation of the campaigns in Spain 1808 Russia 1812 Germany 1813 and Belgium 1815. Napoleon also wrote “Mouton is the best colonel to have ever commanded a French regiment.â€</p><p><strong>Letter signed</strong> Chamartin Madrid December 19 1808 to General Mouton. <em>""There are at Retiro 4 depots of isolated men one from the 1st corps one from 4th one from the 6th and another of isolated French prisoners of Dupont's corps which is returning. You will conduct a review and report back to me with their state. There is also a clothing store at Retiro. You will find attached here an account of its status. Go to visit it and acquaint me of the use we could make of the 2300 habits 2300 vests 3000 culottes and the 800 pants located there. You will bring to me tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the morning the state of the depots and the state of the stores along with that of the men we could clothes in the four depots.""</em></p><p>Never before offered for sale acquired from the direct descendants of the recipient now residing in the United States. It does not appear in the published works of Napoleon or online at the Fondation Napoleon.</p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-25018"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> hardcover
18092158723/09/1809. <blockquote><p>A rare full signed order by Bonaparte</p></blockquote><p>In 1809 a formation known as the Reserve Corps of the Army of Germany was assembled. This later became a new VIII Corps that served in Spain in 1810. The Reserve Corps was under the command of Marshal François Christophe de Kellermann. Its three divisions were led by Generals Olivier Rivaud de la Raffinière Eloi Laurent Despeaux and Joseph Lagrange.</p><p>The siege of Astorga was an attempt by French forces to capture that town as part of a campaign of the Peninsular War. Astorga was located on the flank of the French invasion path to Spain and Portugal and was meant to be used as a headquarters during the campaign. The French overpowered the Spanish garrison inside and took the city on April 20 1810 with a loss of 160 men. It took however the arrival of ammunition and weapons for the attack to begin.</p><p>The 8th corps was ordered to march to Spain and its first units reached Burgos.</p><p><strong>Order signed</strong> Schonbrunn September 23 1809.</p><p><em>""His Majesty Orders:</em></p><p><em>1 The 22nd regiment of line infantry and the 65th of the line which are part of the 8th corps of the army will each have their 8 stores of ammunition for infantry and 8 for their military transports. The quartermaster general will take the necessary measures to ensure that those regiments that do not have proper munitions and have not exhausted the funds allowed to each regiment for this object that he will contact them without delay and procure the munitions necessary. The quartermaster general of the artillery will take responsibility for those measures that relate to the artillery.</em></p><p><em>2 The 8 4th battalions that form the Rivaud division will each have their own infantry and military transport munitions supplies. The necessary funds for the creation of these will be placed at the disposition of the authorized officer of the 8th corps to be made at Nuremberg Bareuth or Wurtsbourg. The horses will be furnished by the administration as we order below.</em></p><p><em>3 The artillery of the 8th corps will be composed of 4 pieces of 12; 16 pieces of 6; 6 pieces of 3 and 6 howitzers having a double approvisionnement harness. The Saxon artillery of General St. Cyr's division will have its cannon piece including 4 of 12 which forms for the 8th Corps 60 pieces of cannon independently of the regimental pieces.</em></p><p><em>4 The engineers will have after the 8th corps at least 1500 tools which will be carried on harnessed carriages as well as the ropes and tools necessary for the prompt repair of a bridge.</em></p><p><em>5 Three hundred horses shall be raised in the land of Bareuth a hundred in the land of Erfurth and a hundred in the land of Hanau in all five hundred which will be distributed in the 8th corps as follows namely: for the artillery 300 for the transports of the 8 battalions of the Rivaud 50 division for the transports of the engineers 50 for the three provisional regiments of dragoons 100. The price of these horses will be set from the inhabitants according to the tariff which will be regulated by the general steward.</em></p><p><em>6 An advance of two thousand francs will be made to each of the squadrons which form part of the six provisional regiments of dragoons. These 2000 francs will be taken from the regiment's casks by the Minister of War Administration. The distribution between the different mannes will be made by General Fouler for the 1st 5th and 4th. One and the other of these generals will assure the Minister of War Administration of the distribution they have made between the mannes. The squadron leaders and captains commanding the squadrons of the six provisional regiments will immediately use this fund to prepare their squadron.""</em></p><p>Complete orders of Napoleon are very uncommon.</p> unknown
18825<p></p><p><strong>Oscar Wilde</strong></p><p><strong>Photographic portrait by Napoléon Sarony</strong></p><p>Vintage silver print.</p><p>12 x 7.2 inches.</p><p>Mounted on the photographer's box.</p><p><strong>Iconic portrait of Oscar Wilde: one of the images from his legend.</strong></p><p>This photograph belongs to a famous series of 27 taken by Napoléon Sarony in New York on January 5 1882 during Oscar Wilde's first trip to the American capital for a series of conferences.</p><p>Napoléon Sarony 1821-1896 then owned the most prominent studio in New York</p><p>This is the eighth. Wilde poses seated in his large coat with a wide collar and large brown fur sleeves. It is a pelisse to which he was particularly attached. <em>"I carried her during the entire trip to America she attended all my premieres she knows me perfectly" </em>he wrote.</p><p>His head slightly inclined rests on his left hand the ring and little fingers at the level of the chin the middle finger lightly pressing the cheek. In the other hand he holds his pair of gloves.</p><p>Long hair is neatly divided with a middle part and waves on either side. The look is extraordinarily clear the oval of the face perfect. Wilde has in this image something of a Madonna hinting at a gentle smile.</p><p>The writer is then at the peak of his beauty. The image is as much his creation as that of the photographer. This photograph almost as much as his books and his witticisms contributed to creating the character he created for himself. As such the term iconic is not usurped.</p><p>Magnificent print in warm tones large format.</p>
18042327822/08/1804. <blockquote><p>This is earliest document we found having reached the market bearing the title ""Napoleon I"" Emperor of the French on it; it was signed just weeks after he gave himself the title and months before his coronation in front of the Pope.</p></blockquote><div dir=""ltr""><span style=""color: #3366ff;""> </span></div><p><span style=""color: #3366ff;""><em>Reference for research publication and institutions: Raab B</em>13.105</span></p><p>The Corsican-born Napoleon one of the greatest military strategists in history rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. By 1799 France was at war with most of Europe and Napoleon returned home from his Egyptian campaign to take over the reigns of the French government and save his nation from collapse. After becoming first consul in February 1800 he reorganized his armies and defeated Austria. In 1802 he established the Napoleonic Code a new system of French law and in 1804 he established the French empire.</p><p>On May 18 1804 Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2 1804 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. Napoleon even paid for Pope Pius VII who had signed the Concordat of Rome defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution to travel to France for the occasion believing that his presence would imbue the event with a solemn religious feeling. Pius agreed to come hoping to win Napoleon's goodwill towards Rome and the Papal States.</p><p>As a perfect reflection of the time in which he lived Napoleon was “obsessed with history."" He would draw references symbols and examples from it to justify his position and his politics and thus give his reign its place in the history of France from the Gauls right up to his immediate predecessors including the Bourbons. Of all the references wielded by the French Emperor Charlemagne is if not one of the most important then at least one of the most consistent. During the same period the Russian Ambassador Markov wrote to his government saying that in his opinion Bonaparte would soon take the title of “Emperor of the Gauls †whilst the Prussian Lucchesini sent word to Berlin that the Consul wanted to “be a second Charlemagne †but “enlightened by the geniuses of our century †adding “No-one doubts he has a plan; it is just the timing that has yet to be decided."" On becoming emperor Napoleon thought it time to visit his “predecessor â€. This pilgrimage had become virtually a tradition with the kings of France then the Germanic emperors. So he went to Aix-la-Chapelle to tie his historical legitimacy with the memory of Charlemagne – as Thiers put it the old emperor had been “awakened by Napoleon with ill-disguised intent â€.</p><p>On July 18 the new Emperor began a great inspection tour from Boulogne to Treves through Calais Dunkirk Ostend Arras Mons Aachen Cologne and Mainz. It was to end in Aix and cement his position of Emperor. He would return from this and receive the crown.</p><p><strong>Autograph document signed</strong> with a very early example of his new title the head reading <em>""To his Majesty the Emperor of the French Napoleon I""</em> August 22 1804 Ostend granting a senior civil position to a resident of Ostend on his great tour by endorsing the request <em>""Agreed. Returned to the Ministry of Finance Ostend 6 Thermidor in the 12th August 22 1804.â€</em> The approval its in response to an appeal from citizen Michel Jean Pruyssenaere resident of Ostende to serve as collector of that area.</p><p>We have found just one other document of Napoleon during this grand tour having reached the public market and that was part of the great Sang Collection. That did not have his new letterhead as Emperor. This must be one of the earliest with his ""Napoleon I"" letterhead.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-23121 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204155902/Folder-site-3-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
18123546227/09/1812. <p>In 1812 Napoleon was still at the height of his fortunes. The Peninsular War in Spain against Britain he believed would soon end in triumph. All that remained to complete his “Continental Systemâ€â€“a unilateral European blockade designed to economically isolate Britain and force its subjugation–was the cooperation of Russia. Czar Alexander I kept a tenuous peace but was unwilling to submit to the Continental System which would be ruinous to the Russian economy. To intimidate Alexander Napoleon massed his forces in Poland in the spring of 1812 but still the Czar resisted.</p><p>Napoleon determined to act. On June 24 Napoleon commenced his famed campaign in Russia ordering his Grande Armée the largest European military force ever assembled to that date into Russia. The enormous army featured more than 500000 soldiers and staff and included contingents from Prussia Austria and other countries under the sway of the French empire. The campaign would be characterized by the massive toll on human life: in less than six months Napoleon lost near half of his men because of the extreme weather conditions battle disease and hunger. On both sides nearly a million soldiers and civilians died.</p><p>Napoleon’s military successes traditionally lay in his ability to move his armies rapidly and strike quickly but he was instead forced to pursue the Russian army which was refusing to give in and was falling back. The fleeing Russian forces adopted a “scorched earth†strategy seizing or burning any supplies that the French might utilize as they pillaged from the countryside. Meanwhile Napoleon’s supply lines became overextended as he advanced deeper and deeper into the Russian expanse.</p><p>Many in Russia were critical of the Russian army’s refusal to engage Napoleon in a more direct confrontation. Under public pressure in late August Alexander named General Mikhail Kutuzov supreme commander but initially the veteran of earlier defeats against Napoleon continued the retreat. Finally Kutuzov agreed to halt at the town of Borodino about 70 miles west of Moscow and engage the French. The Russians built fortifications and on September 7 the Grande Armée attacked. Napoleon was uncharacteristically cautious that day; he didn’t try to outflank the Russians and he declined to send much-needed reinforcements into the fray. His exhausted Grand Armée was unable to encircle and destroy the opposing force as it had done in Napoleon’s earlier campaigns. Instead Napoleon’s direct attacks against entrenchments resulted in heavy losses. He failed to destroy the Russian army and as a result he was not in the position of overwhelming superiority he had hoped to achieve. After the battle Kutuzov decided not to defend Moscow but to launch a general withdrawal to save the Russian army.</p><p>Napoleon was sure that once Moscow was taken Alexander would be forced to capitulate. On September 14 the French entered Moscow only to find it abandoned. All but a few thousand of the city’s 275000 people were gone. Napoleon retired to a house on the outskirts of the city for the night but two hours after midnight he was informed that a fire had broken out in the city. He went to the Kremlin where he watched the flames continue to grow. Reports began to come in telling of Russians starting the fires and stoking the flames. Suddenly a fire broke out within the Kremlin apparently set by a Russian military policeman who was immediately executed. With the firestorm spreading Napoleon and his entourage were forced to flee down burning streets to Moscow’s outskirts and narrowly avoided being asphyxiated. When the flames died down three days later more than two-thirds of the city was destroyed.</p><p>On September 18 Napoleon wrote Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès his trusted advisor who was constantly consulted for advice saying the fires were calming down and “I have taken up lodging in the residence of the Tsars the Kremlin…â€</p><p>Nine days later he updated his advisor. <strong>Letter signed</strong> Moscow September 27. 1812 to Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès. <em>“My cousin I have received your letter. There is nothing new at present. I pray that God keeps you in his holy and worth guard.â€</em></p><p>A very uncommon letter of Napoleon in Moscow during the great invasion.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
188255660NP: Napoléon Sarony 1882. Framed. Very good to fine. Fine photo-mechanical image of Oscar Wilde after the original by photographer Napoléon Sarony 1821-1896. With brief inscription signed Oscar Wilde. Photo and note framed behind glass within larger frame 19 5/8 12 5/8". <br /> <br /> Portrait of Oscar Wilde 7 x 5" in decorative gilt frame: Frontal of Oscar Wilde seated clothed in jacket and knee breeches leaning forward with elbow resting on knee head supported by left hand holding a book in right hand with elbow resting on armrest. <br /> <br /> The six word inked note 3 x 4 1/8" also in decorative gilt frame both matted within larger wooden gilt frame with decorative inside border. Gilt frame with two scuffs 4 1/4" below top of frame one on each side. Napoléon Sarony unknown
18103642009/05/1810. <blockquote><p>""I approve the slate of officers you propose to use for the Army of Italy. I think you should add General Bissonin. Regarding General Menou the Vice Roy must first present to me an officer for Governor of Venice. Send General Pacthod to the Army of Naples where he can serve.""</p></blockquote><p>In May 1810 Napoleon was at the high-water mark of his empire strengthening and intensifying his Continental System against Britain. Napoleon focused then on restricting British commerce and enhancing his alliance with Austria. His mind was also much on the Netherlands. On May 13 1810 it was announced that the Netherlands were formally annexed to France further consolidating Napoleon’s control over Europe. Bergen op Zoom a fortified city in the Netherlands was a key stronghold for French forces during Napoleon’s empire.</p><p>By 1810 Napoleon controlled most of the Italian peninsula acting as King of Italy crowned 1805 with his stepson Eugène de Beauharnais as viceroy. The region was restructured into the Kingdom of Italy in the north and the Kingdom of Naples in the south introducing modern law abolishing feudal rights and improving infrastructure while by 1810 the Italian army achieved parity with French units.</p><p>The War of the Fifth Coalition was Austria’s final attempt to challenge Napoleon Bonaparte after earlier defeats but it ended decisively with French victories at Battle of Wagram and the Treaty of Schönbrunn which stripped Austria of further territory and influence in northern Italy and the Adriatic. In the aftermath Napoleon moved to tighten and rationalize his control over the region reinforcing the authority of his Italian client state under Eugène de Beauharnais and integrating Venice more fully into a centralized military-administrative system. Though already under French rule Venice’s strategic importance—as a fortified lagoon city naval arsenal and forward position facing Austria—meant that after 1809 it became a focus of consolidation rather than conquest with garrisons reviewed command structures regularized and trusted officers installed to ensure the city’s security and readiness in anticipation of future conflict.</p><p>Napoleon was at Bergen op Zoom in May 1810. The Duc de Feltre was an officer diplomat and statesman who served as Minister of War under Napoleon.</p><p><strong>Letter signed</strong> Bergen-op-Zoom May 9 1810 to the Duc de Feltre assigning officers to the army and government of Italy. <em>""I approve the slate of officers you propose to use for the Army of Italy. I think you should add General Bisson. Regarding General Menou the Vice Roy must first present to me an officer for Governor of Venice. Send General Pacthod to the Army of Naples where he can serve.""</em></p><p>In 1810 General Baptiste-Pierre-François Bisson was given a command at Verona where he remained until his death in 1811. General Jacques-François de Menou served as the administrator and Governor of Venice in the Kingdom of Italy. After a notable career including commanding the Egyptian campaign he died on August 13 1810. In 1810 General Michel-Marie Pacthod was rewarded as a Knight of the Iron Crown and then given a division in the Army of Naples.</p><p>Here we see Napoleon exercising control over his occupied territories.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt=""historical memorabilia dealer"" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
181190504Paris: de l'imprimerie Ballard 1811. Fine. de l'imprimerie Ballard Paris 1811 27.8 x 40.5 cm Relié First illustrated edition with 5 plates cf. Coll. Émile Brouwet II 2 168.Half black shagreen binding smooth spine decorated with gilt and blind fillets title lettered lengthwise in gilt joints and caps rubbed title repeated on the upper cover paper labels pasted to the lower left corner of the upper cover and the upper left corner of the inside back cover bookplate pasted to the inside back cover original front wrapper preserved corners worn mid-19th-century binding.Some light foxing.The five finely line-engraved plates by Cavelier and Pierron after drawings by Pierre-Paul Prudhon bring together a selection of pieces of imperial furniture.The first set a firescreen a dressing table with its mirror an armchair and a washstand was executed in vermeil with lapis inlays and presented to Empress Marie-Louise on 15 August 1810. This important commission was the joint work of the chaser-founder Thomire awarded a gold medal at the Exhibition of 1806 and the silversmith Odiot. The three plates devoted to it preserve its memory as the ensemble was largely melted down in 1832.The final two plates depict the celebrated cradle of the King of Rome in vermeil mother-of-pearl and burgau shell the fruit of the same two craftsmen which was presented by the City of Paris on 5 March 1811 before the arrival of the imperial child and is now preserved in Vienna.Thomire alone later produced a second example in elm burr and gilt bronze following the same design and faithfully reproducing certain elements such as the two bas-reliefs of the Seine and the Tiber. This second cradle is now at the Château de Fontainebleau.Provenance: from the library of Prince Demidoff San Donato stamp then from that of Prince Roland Bonaparte with his bookplate and label N. de l'imprimerie Ballard unknown
1806ABC_49310Paris 1806. Small 4to. Imprimerie impériale Mid-19th-century gold-tooled quarter brown calf with a brown morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine and the initials "P. T." lettered in gold at the foot of the spine marbled paper sides marbled edges marbled endpapers. With a woodcut decorative border on the title page and a woodcut Islamic headpiece at the start of the work. 306 pp. First edition of a rare Arabic work celebrating Napoleon's victories during the Battle of Austerlitz 1805. It describes the battle which is seen as one of Napoleon's tactical masterpieces and the aftermath until the Peace of Pressburg 1805. The work was printed using an early 17th-century Arabic type which is sometimes considered the most beautiful ever created Conidi.After the French campaigns in Egypt and Syria between 1798 and 1801 Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 remained a famous figure in the Arab and Ottoman Worlds. The present work was printed in Arabic in order to present his victories of 1805 to the Middle East. It makes use of the bulletins written during the battle either by Napoleon himself or under his supervision which offer important military information as well as fascinating political and social commentary. The end of the text contains the Arabic translation of the Peace of Pressburg signed on 26 December 1805 by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand for France as well as Johann I Joseph Prince of Liechtenstein and the Hungarian Count Ignác Gyulay for the Austrian Empire. The Arabic type used for the present work was created in the early 17th century with the support of François Savary de Brèves 1560-1628 a French ambassador in Istanbul and an orientalist who had the ambition to establish a polyglot printing press. He was finally able to do so when he was dispatched to Rome for a diplomatic mission between 1608-1614. He called his press the Typographia Savariana and ordered the cutting of new Arabic types based on the calligraphic scripts found in the manuscripts he had brought from the Middle East. These new types were well received and he printed many publications with them until his printing press unfortunately ran out of business in 1618. After the death of Savary de Brèves his types were acquired by Cardinal Richelieu for the Kingdom of France to promote the spread of Catholicism in the Levant. They were then kept in the royal library until 1692 after which they were handed to the Imprimerie Royale and fell into disuse. They were rediscovered and identified by the French Orientalist Joseph de Guignes 1721-1800 in 1787. Napoleon then used these elegant Arabic typefaces as the foundation for his new printing press in Egypt the Imprimerie Nationale which was the first modern printing press in the Arab world. They were used among others things for the first editions of the newspapers Courier and Décade. The types were brought back to Paris when the French were driven out of Egypt in 1801 and given to the new Imprimerie impériale in 1804 that used them for the present work.The edges and corners of the boards are very slightly scuffed. Barely noticeable foxing on some of the leaves the head margin has been cut slightly short with the loss of a small portion of the decorative headpiece. Otherwise in very good condition.l Schnurrer C. F. von Bibliotheca Arabica 1811 p. 497 no. 429; WorldCat 1472886006 85092075 1356910650 57018842 13021778 7 copies; Zenker Th. J. Bibliotheca orientalis vol. 1 no. 948; cf. Conidi E. Arabic type in Europe and the Middle East 1514-1924 pp. 397-412 the present Arabic type. hardcover
1814247420N.p. Paris 1814. 1 p. on letterhead of "Ministère de la Guerre". Folio. Some very slight waterstaining affecting a few letters otherwise very good handsomely mounted and framed. 1 p. on letterhead of "Ministère de la Guerre". Folio. An extraordinary letter of historic significance written a mere two days after the Treaty of Fontainebleau of April 11 1814 which set the terms of Napoleon's abdication and ended an era. Dupont had been one of Napoleon's most distinguished generals but his surrender in the disastrous Spanish campaign led to disgrace and imprisonment. After the fall of Napoléon Dupont became Minister of War for Louis XVIII and in just such letters as this to Marshal Victor - one of Napoleon's most trusted generals - negotiated the acquiescence of Napoléon's military leaders: in translation "Monsieur le Maréchal; - The provisional government has read with intense interest the declaration in which your Excellency has announced his adherence to the act of the Senate pronouncing the abdication of Napoleon Buonaparte and the restoration of the Bourbons on the throne on their ancestors. By this declaration taken in the interest of the country your Excellency has established anew a claim to the gratitude of the French people as well as the respect and good will of His Majesty Louis XVIII. Such is the opinion sir of the provisional government - and I am more than happy to be its messenger on this memorable occasion". unknown
18113323101811. framed. near fine. NAPOLEON I. Letter Signed Nap one page quarto Paris March 20 1811. To the minister of war General Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke the Duke of Feltre. The text in the hand o Meneval. Napoleon orders the purchase of arms in preparation for his Russian campaign: "I approve that you purchase the 18000 weapons belonging to private parties in Holland. I want you to send them to Wesel with the 76000 others. This will come to 94000 arms assembled at Wesel. I approve the seizure of 3000 rifles which Prince d'Eckmiihl Davout carried out in Hamburg. Give him the order to send these 3000 rifles via Mecklenburg to Stettin as well as all those which may be in Bremen Lubeck Osnabrock & other cities of his government belonging to the English military rifles that is. Gen Molitor speaks in one of his letters of 35000 rifles which he says are in one of the bad sections of Amsterdam. I take it that these 35000 rifles do not include the 18000. If that is so have them also sent to Wesel which will bring the number of rifles we will have in Wesel to 133000. " A note indicates that this letter was "Received March 20 and sent the 21st to M. Gassendy. " From 1810 to 1813 Marshal Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor held commands in the Hanseatic towns Hamburg and Holland. Matted in red and cream and framed in a gold gilt frame with scroll detail dimensions measure 17 3/4 inches wide by 15 1/4 inches high.<br/> <br/> Napoleon Bonaparte born Napoleone di Buonaparte later known by his regal name Napoleon I was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815. He led the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804 then ruled the French Empire as Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814 and briefly again in 1815. He was King of Italy from 1805 to 1814 Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine from 1806 to 1813 and Mediator of the Swiss Confederation from 1803 to 1813.<br/> <br/> unknown
18233596128/05/1823. <blockquote><p>“I beg you to have them copied for me as diligently as possible.I desire that the departure of Mr. Jay Peter Augustus be deferred until next Wednesday…â€</p></blockquote><p>The French ratification of the Louisiana Purchase treaty and conventions was dated May 22nd and signed by Bonaparte Foreign Minister Talleyrand Minister of the Treasury Barbé de Marbois and Hugues Bernard Maret who as the secretary of state was responsible for promulgating laws and decrees. It was delivered to the representatives of the United States Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe who acknowledged receipt of the paperwork to be sent to President Thomas Jefferson ""without delay.""</p><p>It is interesting to note that Barbé de Marbois who played a key role in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase Treaty and delivered the signed ratification was former ambassador to the United States who had lived in the U.S. for years spoke English and married an American. He was well connected in the U.S. and was elected a Foreign Honorary Member to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences John Hancock and John Adams were also members and the American Philosophical Society Thomas Jefferson was also a member and the two dealt extensively. He was a logical choice to negotiate the treaty.</p><p>Five days after delivery of the signed ratified treaty Marbois contacted the U.S. ministers to ask for the return of copies of the treaty or even the treaty itself so that official copies could be made.</p><p><strong>Letter signed</strong> by Marbois on French Public Treasury letterhead Paris May 28 1803 to <em>""the Ministers of the United Statesâ€</em> in which he asks Livingston and Monroe to either send him copies of the First Consul's ratifications or else lend their own official copy to his office so that additional record copies could be made from it. He requested further that Peter Augustus Jay the son of John Jay who was assigned to carry the treaty back to President Jefferson delay his voyage by a few days to give time for Talleyrand to prepare official instructions for Louis A. Pichon the French minister in Washington D.C. <em>""I am in need of the ratifications given by the First Consul to the Treaty and the two conventions. I beg you to have them copied for me as diligently as possible or to have sent to me the acts themselves so that I might have them copied. I desire that the departure of Mr. Jay Peter Augustus be deferred until next Wednesday and if you might also notify Talleyrand he will thereby request you to deliver the packages to Mr. Pichon.""</em></p><p>On June 2 Livingston sheds some light on the request. ""You know that the ratifications have been delivered & that we were to send them directly to you we have accordingly applied for a passport for Mr Jay the bearer. To our note on this subject we received no answer. I called this day on Mr Talleyrand to accelerate it; he was at St Cloud I called on the Minister of the Treasury. They have been these two days past in Council and principally basting Mr. Marbois on the subject of the Treaty for it seems that the Consul is less pleased with it since the ratification than before and I am persuaded that if he could conveniently get off he would.""</p><p>Livingston further explains that Napoleon felt it was not proper that Marbois delivered the ratifications that it ought to have been Pichon and that Marbois in a fit to try to appease the Consul was throwing in objections and slowing the process of allowing Jay to leave with the Treaty.</p><p>Jay's trip was indeed postponed resulting in not merely in the brief delay requested by Marbois but additional delays mainly resulting from the fact that war had again broken out between Great Britain and France and Jay’s ship was repeatedly stopped by British frigates. Jefferson did not see the treaty and conventions until early July. Jefferson was then in a quandary. He had always advocated strict adherence to the letter of the Constitution yet there was no provision empowering him to purchase territory. Given the public support for the purchase and the obvious value of Louisiana to the future growth of the United States however Jefferson decided to ignore the legalistic interpretation of the Constitution and forgo the passage of a Constitutional amendment to validate the purchase. This decision contributed to the principle of implied powers of the federal government.</p><p>Because the treaty stipulated that the American ratification must be concluded by October 30th Jefferson hurriedly convened a special session of Congress on October 17th. The United States Senate consented to ratification of the treaty with a vote of 24 to 7 on October 20th. On the following day October 21 1803 the Senate authorized Jefferson to take possession of the territory and establish a temporary military government.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
1824133273Leipzig: lithographed by William Herz for Leopold Voss 1824. Napoleon in the garb of Caesar A superb lithograph depicting Napoleon in the costume of a Roman emperor crowned with laurel wreath and with the globe in his hand between the pillars of Hercules. Napoleon is surrounded by his titles and names of his family members with the border listing the names of his senate generals and council of state. Opposite him the goddess of peace holds out an olive branch while at his feet his peace treaties are carved on a stone. An overarching passion-flower and banner thread to form a large "N". A wonderfully evocative image highlighting Napoleon's pretensions to the Roman Empire and his place in history alongside emphasizing his centrality to the state. The lithograph bears the date of 1812 the height of Napoleon's empire but was produced in Leipzig as a memorial in 1824 a few years after Napoleon's death. The print was perhaps aimed at old German members of his army or administration - Napoleon had elevated Saxony to a kingdom and members of its army served in his campaigns including the invasion of Russia in 1812. It is curious to note that the publisher Leopold Voss had fought against Napoleon in the German Wars of Liberation. The print was advertised for 1 thaler 12 groschen see Intelligenzblatt der Zeitung für Die elegante Welt 12 October 1824. Lithograph broadside 79 x 58 cm presented in wooden and gilt frame with conservation glazing. Neat Leipzig blindstamp at foot. Very faint foxing minor peripheral short closed tears repaired on verso but not visible on recto. In very good condition. unknown
18102472226/10/1810. <p>In 1808 Napoleon formed the idea of having a traveling library in order to make his hours of intellectual recreation independent of the exigencies of a campaign or the delays of a courier. More importantly during times of battle he ordered books that taught him the topography of the countries he was invading and gave him other information to help toward victory. Obviously such a collection of books would have to be selected with great care that the library might be a portable one; and consequently the minute instructions as to its care are as it were a picture of his mind.</p><p>To create this library he turned principally to three men.</p><p>Abbe Denina: In 1782 he had served as historian under Frederick the Great; he became under Napoleon the imperial librarian.</p><p>Antoine-Alexandre Barbier: It was in 1808 that he was put in charge of Napoleon's personal libraries at Compiègne Rambouillet and Trianon and given the primary role in managing the travel libraries that Napoleon took with him whilst on campaign. Barbier was also expected to keep the French Emperor constantly supplied with reading material along with reports analyses and commentaries regarding each publication.</p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-29132"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204110006/nt-1600x677.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""677"" /></p><p>Jacob Desmalter: He was responsible for the creation of the library itself the boxes into which the books went along with the decorations worthy of an imperial library.</p><p>This is the first known travel library of a head of state and general. Napoleon seems to have looked forward with expectation to the use of this traveling library while in the field; and when he was preparing for the great campaign which culminated at Wagram he wrote somewhat impatiently from Malmaison March 20 1809 through Méneval his private secretary “The Emperor wants to know if his traveling library is ready. I advised M. Barbier to choose it with care and to put some excellent books in it.†Then the secretary adds: “His Majesty wishes to have something very distinguished and has a preference for books characterized by the beauty of the printed page and by elegance of binding.†Finally comes the admonition “If you have not found the epics do not lose a moment of time in getting them.â€</p><p>His first portable library was ordered in 1808 and reached him in 1809 but was soon replaced by one that suited his interests more and that would last him longer. In replacing the 1809 delivery a second mahogany library of 6 boxes was ordered from Desmalter along with two of oak lined with blue silk. The cost from Desmalter was 1982 francs. These were likely used by Napoleon for the first time in 1810 during visits to Normandy and Holland.</p><p>As tensions with Russia heated however Napoleon supplemented this portable library with books on Russian geography and topography to prepare for his Russian invasion.</p><p>The fate of this traveling library was the fate of his entire army of 1812: it was lost. The books and boxes of the Emperor became firewood for a faltering army in the snow drifts of Russia.</p><p><strong>Document signed</strong> Paris October 26 1810 the original order for one of the most famous travel libraries in history the very library that heated the dying French outside Moscow signed by all three men that created it.</p><p><em>""Memo for his Majesty the Emperor and King executed by the order of Mr. Barbie librarian of his Majesty by Jacob Desmalter.</em></p><p><em>""Six boxes of pure mahogany to serve as portable libraries the top opening and hinged the interior being fitted with copper such that it can remain open the back decorated with a copper hinge. 1440.</em></p><p><em>""One box made of oak from the Vosges mountain range lined with wool. 150</em></p><p><em>""One box of oak. 140</em></p><p><em>""Restore and repair three mahogany boxes and refit the interiors with blue silk. 234</em></p><p><em>""Repair and polish one mahogany box. 18</em></p><p><em>TOTAL 1982.""</em></p><p>This account is verified at the bottom by Jacob Desmalter the builder of the boxes.</p><p>It is witnessed on the verso by Barbier and Denina who write ""Verified the present memo of the woodworkers Jacob Desmalter.""</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-24670 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204145810/Folder-site-9-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
180187628Paris: Chez Fauvelle imprimeur des Tribunaux place circulaire du Palais de justice à ParisEt Patris imprimeur-libraire quai Malaquais près le pavillon des Quatre-Nations n° 2 1801. Fine. ""The French nation having conquered liberty by the sword shall preserve and strengthen it through the law"" Preliminary Address Chez Fauvelle imprimeur des Tribunaux place circulaire du Palais de justice à Paris Et Patris imprimeur-libraire quai Malaquais près le pavillon des Quatre-Nations n° 2 Paris s. d. 1801 20.4 x 13.2 cm relié Extremely rare printing by Fauvelle official printer for the Tribunaux de la Seine contemporary and textually identical to the octavo and quarto editions by the Imprimerie de la République. Only four copies with Fauvelle's imprint in OCLC BnF National Library of Spain Royal Danish Library Stadtbibliothek Worms. Bradel-style binding in full marbled paper boards flat spine with red roan label light foxing to the first three leaves. First version of the Napoleonic Code presented by the four members of Bonaparte's commission appointed to draft the civil code. Also contains the important Preliminary Address to the First Draft of the Civil Code outlining the influences and objectives behind this landmark work - the first modern legal code to be widely adopted in Europe which influenced the codes of jurisdictions all over the world. Under Bonapartes authority the legislative commission led by Tronchet president Portalis Bigot de Préameneu and Maleville completed this draft civil code in just four months presented in Frimaire Year IX of the Republican Calendar January 1801. The structure of the text mirrors that of the Civil Code which came into effect in 21 March 1804. There are however both technical and philosophical differences: this project contains a Preliminary Book On Rights and Laws comprising six titles which would later be reduced in the Code to a single introductory article. Most sections in this version begin with explanatory comments many of which were later removed particularly in the first half of the code. As the Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung observed ""It can often be very useful to consult both the draft and the final code even in matters of legal dogmatics for the general principles and explanations provided by the commission are typically still valid for the code not because they were rejected as incorrect but rather deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the final version"" 25 March 1810. This first version of the Code was published for the Court of Cassation and appellate courts to collect their amendments. Fauvelle printer of this edition likely intended for Parisian magistrates was among the publishers of judicial commentaries submitted in response to the government's request. The courts delivered their remarks within six months of this editions release. After three years of debate and some one hundred sessionshalf chaired by Bonaparte himselfthe Civil Code was adopted in the form of 36 legislative bills and soon became known as the Napoleonic Code. This edition also includes the only appearance at the time of a Preliminary Address in essence the statement of purpose for the draft Civil Code by the four-member governmental commission between August 1800 and January 1801. . The Preliminary Address is in fact the work of Portalis whose spirit of moderation guided the drafters of the code. The legislator must remain modest Portalis maintained: a code should not seek to say everything; it must leave room for interpretation by the courts and jurists which leads to the famous phrase: The codes of nations evolve with time; properly speaking they are not made. The Preliminary Address is also a brilliant piece of propaganda outlining pacification by the Consulate after the Revolution and presenting the future code as a synthesis of the legal tradition from the French monarchy and new revolutionary principles. Canadian Ministry of Justice May 2004. This rare speech would not appear again until 1836 in Fenets Recueil complet des travaux préparatoires du Code civil vol. I p. 436. Rare copy of the only published Chez Fauvelle, imprimeur des Tribunaux, place circulaire du Palais de justice à ParisEt Patris, imprimeur-libraire, quai Malaqu hardcover
1836109608London: Richard Bentley 1836. Finely bound extra-illustrated edition set of de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavos eight volumes bound in full 19th century crimson morocco by Riviere and Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spines in six compartments within raised gilt bands central gilt Napoleonic coats of arms and double gilt ruling to the front panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles all edges gilt illustrated with engravings including frontispieces to each volume. In near fine condition. Based on years of intimate friendship and professional association with Napoleon Bonaparte Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon gained the author fame upon publication for its vivid and detailed account of his interactions with Napoleon and his extended family. Invigorated by many dialogues not only in which the author participated but even of conversations that he was only told about by others the narration offers an intimate portrait of its subject: his brilliance skill at governance and military prowess. Richard Bentley unknown
1824311996V.p. 1824. 1 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth century quarter roan and marbled board contemporary manuscript list of contents dated 1843. Very good internally fine. 1 vols. 8vo. Excellent miscellany preserving several scarce and fugitive works connected with the occupation of Italy under Napoleon. The last title is UNRECORDED.<br /> <br /> 1. Osservazioni su la costituzione militare e politica dell' armate di S.M. Prussiana : con diversi aneddoti della vita privata di questo monarca. Scritta da un Ufizale Francese al suo Servizio. Prima Edizione. Berna A spese della Società 1779. 95 pp. Frontis. of Frederick III of Prussia. Text in Italian. OCLC: 320198438 UCLA<br /> <br /> 2.Le meâ culpâ du clergé; ou Les freres Capucins appellés aux États généraux. Paris 1789. 46 pp. OCLC 367567514 6 copies<br /> <br /> 3. Riposta del Generale Spagnuolo Palafox al Generale Francese Lefebvre datata da Albarrazin in Aragona il 28 agosto 1808 caption title. 12 pp. last page misnumbered 21. Milano Sonzogno 1814. OCLC: 797183224<br /> <br /> 4. Le Pot aux Roses ou Correspondance secrete et familiere de l'honorable Thomas Boot cordonnier royal avec Sa Majesté George III roi de la Grande-Bretagne et ses ministres les<br /> Lords Stormont Sandwich Germaine et North; sur les affaires présentes de l'Europe.<br /> Londres 1782. 96 pp. Thomas Boot is a pseudonym. The imprint is false; printed on the continent. OCLC 931401338<br /> <br /> 5. Li Cardinali. 96 1 errata pp. Londra 1788. Edizione Seconda. OCLC: 258029507<br /> <br /> 6. Giudizio che formera`la posterita`sugli avvenimenti seguiti in Spagna. Opuscolo scritto da uno Spagnuolo imparziale. N.p. n.d. 1830s 13 pp. Not in OCLC. Bibl. Nazionale Centrale Di Firenze CF990941463<br /> <br /> 7. Istoria de' Frati o sia Sentenza Inappellabile su le ultime differenze tra il Sacerdozio e l'Impero. Londra 1783. A-C8 D4 D3v & D4 blank. 53 pp. OCLC: 257682743<br /> <br /> 8. Carra Jean-Louis. Essai particulier de politique dans lequel on propose un partage de la Turquie européene. Constantinople i.e. Paris 1777. 66 pp. Goldsmiths'-Kress 11646.1. OCLC: OCLC: 457289961 & 66421497<br /> <br /> 9. Descrizione di un quadro in tela di Carlo Dolce alto circa braccia 4. largo 2.1/4 rappresentante Maria Vergine che da a tre frati l'effigie i S. Domenico. Estratta dal. N. XIII del Nuovo Giornale dei Letterati. Pisa Nistri 1824. 11 pp. OCLC: 43976209 V&A<br /> <br /> 10. Salchli Emmanuel. Ode sur les Réformes de l'Empereur par l'auteur du Poème des causes finales & de la direction du mal. En Suisse 1785. 15 pp. <br /> <br /> 11. Stay Giovanni Antonio. Corona poetica a Napoleone il Grande. Canzoni. Firenze Molini Landi 1808. 2 vi 35 1 pp. Contains I Vaticini del secolo XIX & I Voti d'Italia a Napoleone & Le Rimembranze di Napoleone all'Italia. OCLC: 44827271 Oxford & 79198218 Harvard<br /> <br /> 12. Alle Gloria di Napoleone il Grande. Poesie diverse. Pisa co' caratteri di Didot 1810. vii 17 pp. OCLC: 926830608 Univ. Pisa<br /> <br /> 13. AGAR Jean-Antoine-Michel. Couplets a Madame Murat sur son arrivée à Florence avec son petit Achille. Air du Tableau des Sabines. . Par le Citoyen Agar. Five stanzas of eight lines in rhyming couplets comparing Mme Murat Caroline Bonaparte to the Venus de Medicis: "Florence croit revoir en vous / Une Vénus qu'elle a perdue"; with free Italian translation. Printed on blue paper. N.p. n.d. ca. 1801. 4 pp. UNRECORDED. unknown
184075318Paris: S. n. 1840. Fine. Napoleon's grand state funeral S. n. Paris s. d. ca 1840 14.50 x 18.50 cm un panorama sous reliure binding: 14.5 x 18.5 cm / panorama: 206 m 80 inches A very rare first edition of 15 lithographed views in bistre tint mounted in an accordion pleat forming a panorama of 6.75 ft and showing the Parisian procession of the return of Napoleon's mortal remains his ""ashes"" used here as a metaphor since he was not cremated. The parade started from the Arc de Triomphe to his resting place in Invalides. In the lower margin the caption presents the different groups forming the procession: Ajaccio delegation Paris Municipal Council Prince of Joinville Commission of Saint-Helena.in the centre of the panorama stands the spectacular funeral car. Without mention of the publisher this impressive document was undoubtedly printed by Aubert famous publisher of Parisian panoramas published during the same era and also illustrated by Adrien Provost. Publisher's half cloth black Bradel binding goffered silk boards framed with double gilt fillets the first with the gilt title convoi de l'Empereur stamped in the centre. In the distance is seen in the mist and the sunlight against the grey and russet background of the trees in the Champs-élysées beyond the great white phantom-like statues a kind of golden mountain slowly moving. All that can be distinguished of it as yet is a sort of luminous glistening which makes now stars now lightening sparkle over the whole surface of the car. A mighty roar follows this apparition. It would seem as though this car draws after it the acclamation of the whole city as a torch draws after it its smoke. Victor Hugo Choses Vues 15 décembre 1840. Funérailles de l'Empereur. Notes prises sur place. S. n. hardcover
1815BALBE4O3ZHUCParis: Ulysse 1815. Kept in the original publishers paperboard box covered with green paper with an etched and engraved sample print for a fourth puzzle with a caption headed Équité de l'empereur mounted on the top coloured by a contemporary hand and framed with strips of gilt paper embossed with a decorative pattern. Each puzzle with the original pink paper wrap-around slip preserved. Three from a set of four jigsaw puzzles each 19.5 x 24.5 cm each comprising an engraved print mounted on thin wood coloured by a contemporary hand and cut to form a jigsaw puzzle with an engraved caption and short description below the image. With: 2 La Nuit de Lodi. 3 Clémence de l'empéreur. A nice and colourful set of jigsaw puzzles depicting scenes from the life of Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 2 of the puzzles and the sample plate with address «Ulysse Paris» engraved in the image. Each puzzle has 20 pieces. The first depicts Napoleon Bonaparte calmly sleeping in a chair after having given orders to his generals on the eve of the battle of Austerlitz 1 Dec. 1805. The second shows a still fresh Napoleon addressing an exhausted soldier a scene from the terrible battle at Lodi Italy 10 May 1796 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and the Austrian rear guard led by Johann Beaulieu. The third shows Napoleon as merciful Emperor receiving the thankful wife and children of a Prussian lord accused of conspiracy but whom he nonetheless pardoned.The puzzle matching the scene mounted on the top of the box is not included; a few pieces cracked at thin spots; box slightly defective with traces of use and browned. A good set. Ulysse, unknown
1815302741Wigan: J. Brown 1815. First edition. Woodcut frontispiece. 24 pp. 8vo. Later marbled boards with red morocco label to upper board original wrappers bound in. First edition. Woodcut frontispiece. 24 pp. 8vo. With the defeat of the French at Waterloo England once again prepared to confine Napoleon. Looking for somewhere more than remote than Elba this time he was bound for St. Helena a tiny windswept island in the South Atlantic that was first discovered by the Portuguese and previously in control of the East India Company. <br /> <br /> In the wake of this decision there was much interest in the island and printers scrambled to meet demand. This little pamphlet commences with a history of the island followed by an account of its inhabitants food live stock climate and the all-important garrison. The woodcut includes a key to landmarks on the island. Of additional interest are the "Remarks on Ascension Island" being another British possession in the Atlantic.<br /> <br /> Not in OCLC not in COPAC. This copy only on ABPC. J. Brown unknown
1810247547St. Cloud 1810. On a one-page document "Rapport présenté à sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi" signed by the "Ministre-Directeur" Paris 27 juin 1810. 1 vols. Folo. Some very slight soiling otherwise very good. Handsomely mounted and framed. On a one-page document "Rapport présenté à sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi" signed by the "Ministre-Directeur" Paris 27 juin 1810. 1 vols. Folo. On this document requesting among other surgical supplies for the army in Spain "3 caisses d'instruments à - amputation" Napoleon has penned this brief order:<br /> <br /> "Envoyez seulement deux 2 caisses.<br /> <br /> "St. Cloud le 30 juin 1810". unknown
