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015954New Yr: Macmillan Publishing Company 9187. Translated from the French by George C. D'Aguilar with a new introduction and commentary by David G. Chandler. 252p. b/w illus. dj. Macmillan Publishing Company unknown books
11562Napoleon III carte-de-vistie. Emperor of France. Legend has it Napoleon III in 1859 en route with his troops to Italy stopped at Disdéri's Paris studio to have his portrait taken. Seizing the opportunity Disdéri sold thousands of copies. Almost overnight a new CDV fad was born. The studios of Paris not only Disdéri's were besieged by patrons who wished to have their pictures taken in the new style. 2.5x4" Upper body image of Bonaparte wearing military regalia. unknown books
185948069New York: D. Appleton & Company 1859. First Thus. 16mo ca. 16cm.; publisher's flexible gilt-lettered cloth over card wrappers; 102pp. Light shelf wear old soil to front free endpapers front hinge cracked but holding else Very Good and sound. D. Appleton & Company unknown books
1857304621np 1857. 13 tinted lithographic views by W. Gauci after photographs by Melliss printed by Vincent Brooks. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's cloth titled on front cover in gilt. Rebacked in black morocco tips worn plates foxed and waterstained at lower corner. Napoleonic bookplate of Leslie Henri Kuehner. 13 tinted lithographic views by W. Gauci after photographs by Melliss printed by Vincent Brooks. Oblong 8vo. Including:<br/>1. Views of lower part of James Town<br/>2. View of upper part of Main Street<br/>3. View of James Town from the road leading to the Briars<br/>4. The Briars<br/>5. The Tomb of Napoleon <br/>6. Longwood Old House<br/>7. Front view of Longwood Old House<br/>8. Longwood New House<br/>9. Marshal Bertrand's Cottage<br/>10. Plantation House<br/>11. St. Paul's Church<br/>12. Oak Bank<br/>13. Willow Cottage. Abbey Travel 318; OCLC: 54297936 unknown books
191363108Grenoble France: Jules Rey 1913. 4to. 4 9-158 pp. Illustrated from photographs engravings portraits facsimiles etc. plates including frontispiece. History of Napoleon's military campaigns in Egypt and Syria 1798-1801 and his occupation of the former country. Later sheep rubbed front joint cracking from spine ends leather title labels on spine and upper board. Fragile joints else very good all of the documents and other added illustrations very good. 9873. Richly extra-illustrated with 30 autographs letters documents portraits prints and a plan of the city of Alexandria most described below as they appear through the text:<br/><br/>1 Bonaparte Napoleon 1769-1921; French statesman and military leader Emperor of the French 1804-1814. Military order to General Rampon signed 13 Messidor 1798 July 1st in Egypt the day Napoleon arrived there with his army; 2 Barras Paul 1755-1829; Leader of the Directory 1795-1799. Document signed; 3 Barras Paul. Document signed 1799; 4 Plan of the cities of Alexandria vetus and New Alexandria or Scanderia; with the old and new ports: also Lower Egypt and the Bay of Aboukir 21 x 33 cm. on a sheet 34 x 43 cm. London: Engraved & published Novr. 5th 1798 by John Luffman 1801 hand-colored; inset of Bay of Aboukir includes brief description of the Battle of the Nile July 1798. OCLC locates three copies Library of Congress Cambridge British Library the National Library of Australia also holds a copy; 5 Kleber Jean-Baptiste 1753-1800; commanded a division under Napoleon in Egypt leading the victory at Mt. Tabor left in command in Egypt on Napoleon's return to France in 1798 assassinated there in 1800. Letter signed from Alexandria 1798; 6 Leclerc Charles V.O. 1772-1802; brother-in-law to Napoleon and general in command of a division and corps in Germany 1798-1801 oversaw the disastrous campaign in Saint-Domingue 1801-1804 and died there of yellow fever. Document signed 1797 concerning the "safety of his holiness" after the French occupation of Rome; 7 Sartelon Commissary-General and paymaster for Napoleon in Egypt. Document signed in Egypt to Dominique Jean Larrey 1766-1842 Chief Surgeon of the French army there; 8 Kleber Jean-Baptiste and Nicolas-Antoine Sanson 1756-1824; chief engineer for Napoleon in Egypt. Document signed by Kleber as commander-in-chief of the French army in Egypt and by Sanson as commander-in-chief of engineers 1799; 9 Kleber Jean-Baptiste. Document signed as commander-in-chief of the French army in Egypt 1799; 10 Smith Sir Sidney 1764-1840; Commodore in the British campaign against Napoleon in Egypt instrumental in defeating the army he left behind eliciting Napoleon's assessment "That man made me miss my destiny". Autograph letter signed to the flagship in Egypt 1801 thanking the admiral for ammunitions and other aid; 11 Clarke Henri Jacques Duc de Feltre 1765-1818; charismatic Franco-Irish general and Napoleon's chief topographical officer Minister of War under Napoleon 1807-1813. Letter signed from Paris 18l6 the year he was promoted to Marshal; 12 Berthier Louis-Alexander 1764-1815; chief of staff to Napoleon in Egypt a Marshal from 1804. Document signed as "Chef de L'Armee" undated but mid 1790s; 13 Kleber Jean-Baptiste. Autograph note signed as division commander to General Guillaume Philibert Duheme i.e. Duhesme requesting they meet at headquarters 1795; 14 Bessieries Jean-Baptiste 1768-1813; Chef de Brigade in Egypt winning distinction at Acre and Aboukir promoted to Marshal in 1804. Letter signed to a brigade commander on the Moselle 1794; 15 Rampon Antoine-Guillaume 1759-1842; commanded a division in Egypt. Autograph note signed 1820; 16 Carnot Lazare 1753-1823; French politician engineer Member of the Directory 1795-1797 Minister of War 1800. Document signed as Minister of War 1800; 17 Cambaceres Jean-Jacques 1753-1824; Minister of Justice in 1799 co-author of the Napoleonic Code. Document signed as Minister of Justice to the Minister of Finance 1799; 18 Andreossy Antoine-Francois 1761-1828; commanded the French flotilla on the Nile during the Egypt campaign later a division commander and diplomat. Document signed as an artillery division commander 1802; 19 Saint-Hilaire Etienne Geoffrey 1772-1844; French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition" member of Napoleon's scientific expedition to Egypt in 1798. Autograph note signed 1826. 20 Kleber Jean-Baptiste. Signature and seal from a wrapper; 21 Kleber Jean-Baptiste. Letter signed to General Francois-Severin Marceau 1769-1796; army commander killed on the Rhine in 1796 as a division commander on the Meuse 1796; 22 Kleber Jean-Baptiste. Note signed in Egypt as commander-in-chief of the French army 1800; in addition there are a number of extra portraits and prints bound in one of the prints picturing the assassination of Kleber in 1800.<br/><br/>All of the military figures and politicians represented in this extra-illustrated volume were involved in some way with Napoleon's expedition to Egypt with the exception of Generals Leclerc and Clarke who were intimately involved in the November 1799 coup that boosted the future emperor into the role of France's ruler. Generals Kleber Sanson Berthier Bessieries Rampon and Andreossy all held important commands; Kleber "undoubtedly one of the greatest generals of the French revolutionary epoch . as a second in command he was not excelled by any general of his time" Encyclopedia Britannica; Sartelon was responsible for provisioning the army; Barras Carnot and Cambaceres helped lead the Directory through this period; Commodore Smith led the British forces to important land and sea victories especially in Syria; and Saint Hillaire was one of the important members of the scientific efforts that were the expedition's lasting contribution. Especially remarkable is the seven-item archive of Kelber autographs including three as commander-in-chief of French forces in Egypt more than have appeared at auction in the past 40 years ABPC 1976-2017 shows four sales during the period. The beautifully hand-colored plan of Alexandria is rare in trade with no copies recorded at auction for the past 40 years ABPC 1976-2017; RareBookHub.<br/><br/>Following his successes in northern Italy 1796-1797 Napoleon pondered a move father east furthering a decades old discussion of the possibility of annexing Egypt as a French colony suggesting that such a move would protect French trade interests and undermine British influence there particularly as potential disruptions to its commerce and access to India and the East Indies; in addition France might establish scientific and other intellectual examinations of culture in the region. Although the military efforts eventually failed the scientists who accompanied Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta Stone creating Egyptology as a field of study and recorded many other important previously unknown aspects of life history archaeology etc. concerning the Near East. The military expedition started off successfully with the occupation of Malta in May 1798 and eluding the British navy landed successfully in Egypt in early July routed the opposition and established headquarters in Cairo by the end of the month. Despite the near destruction of the French fleet in the Bay of Abukir by Admiral Nelson and his fleet and persistent uprisings in the native population Napoleon consolidated his power and had full control of Egypt in the fall. Early in 1799 the Ottomans sent several armies into the near east and Napoleon continued his offense there chalking up wins in Jaffa Haifa and Mount Tabor but was unable to take Acre after a two-months' siege declared victory and returned to Egypt to earn his greatest victory of the expedition defeating local armies at Giza in late July. Having restored his reputation an not particularly liking what he saw of the political situation either in Egypt or France he returned home in late August 1799 leaving Gen. Jean-Baptiste Kelber in command of the expedition forces. Kleber defeated his opponents mostly local troops again at the battle of Heliopolis in March 1800 and then suppressed an insurrection in Cairo but in late June he was assassinated by a Syrian student Gen. Jean-Francois de Menou taking his place as commander. Following a disastrous battle of Alexandria in March 1801 and siege of that city by the British Menou capitulated the terms allowing the French army to return to France. <br/><br/> Jules Rey hardcover books
1810263216Paris: Michaud Frères 1810. First edition. 12 pp. Two lines amended in ink by the author. 8vo. Bound in later 19th century quarter red morocco and marbled boards. Wear to binding extremities light foxing to title-page. First edition. 12 pp. Two lines amended in ink by the author. 8vo. Poem on the ocassion of the mariage of Napoleon to his second wife Marie-Louise D'Autriche. Michaud Frères unknown books
1888313619Paris: Firmin-Didot 1888. Illustrated. 886pp. Thick 4to. Bound in full blue morocco gilt spine a.e.g. original wrappers bound in Fine one bumped corner. Illustrated. 886pp. Thick 4to. Firmin-Didot unknown books
19111885San Jose: Maria V. de Lines 1911. Staplebound. Good. 67p. many small engravings of eagle ship hand nest cat shoe chair guitar bird balloon horse etc. alongside phoenetic and grammatical lessons in large font for children. 7.75" x 5.25" cloth spine color printed stiff paper. Corner damped a rubbed cover with worn spine. Text in Spanish. <br/><br/> Maria V. de Lines unknown books
1841287654Paris: Delay 1841. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition of Napoleon Roussel's Scenes Prophetiques. Roussel was an evangelical French preacher who at the time of publication also edited the biweekly Parisian periodical "L'Esperance" catering to French Protestants. Engraved title page. Complete with twenty numbered plates. Foxing; previous owner's name on the verso of the front endpaper. Full calf with blindstamped decorations at the perimeter of the boards gilt designs and maroon leather label on the spine. All edge gilt. Very Good. OCLC notes only one institutional holding. Very Good binding. Delay unknown books
189423711Chicago: The Werner Company 1894. First Edition. With 330 illustrations of paintings prints etc. 16 vols. Oblong 4to. Original printed orange wrappers near fine. First Edition. With 330 illustrations of paintings prints etc. 16 vols. Oblong 4to. In Parts. The complete set of 16 parts a total of 260 pages consisting mostly of plates with the distinguished lecturer's scholarly text. The Werner Company unknown books
1906316979Lonon: T. Fisher Unwin 1906. Second edition. Extra-Illustrated with hand-coloued frontispece of Napoleon and aprox 75 other portraits and plates. 2 vols. Bound in three quarter crimson morocco and cloth sides t.e.g. gilt spines by Ernest Hertzberg & Sons Chicago. Bookplates of Hannay Arthur and Foster. Second edition. Extra-Illustrated with hand-coloued frontispece of Napoleon and aprox 75 other portraits and plates. 2 vols. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. T. Fisher Unwin unknown books
1914318339London: Adam and Charlkes Balck 1914. Illus with 2 maps of Imperial Epoch and a sketch-map also frontis. of Nap. I and his staff. 8vo. Bound in full bluemodern pebbled morocco gilt Napoleonic seals on upper and lower covers red and green title labels gilt spine by Weitz-Coleman. Fine. Illus with 2 maps of Imperial Epoch and a sketch-map also frontis. of Nap. I and his staff. 8vo. Beautiful Binding. Adam and Charlkes Balck unknown books
181728278London: Published for the Author by R. Ackermann 1817. The first edition published the preceding year. Frontispiece portrait folding facsimile showing Napoleon's writing plate of medal struck on Napoleon's marriage. 1 vols. 8vo. Original paper-backed boards uncut. Spine perished boards detached some spotting and light browning generally at front and back else a very good copy with the stamp of R. F. Pozzolini on half-title. The first edition published the preceding year. Frontispiece portrait folding facsimile showing Napoleon's writing plate of medal struck on Napoleon's marriage. 1 vols. 8vo. Napoleon at St. Helena. Warden was a Surgeon on the Northumberland which conveyed Napoleon to St. Helena. During the voyages and for time at Saint Helena Warden attended Napoleon.¶ The subject matter and criticism of the work sold many editions in the first year. The populace did not like the favorable depiction of Napoleon and the military and literary audience determining that Warden could not have been present at some of the things described took exception to his claims. Warden's French not being strong and his translator the Count de la Cases' English being confused in conveying Napoleon's comments apparently created discrepancies in the conversations as Napoleon later said that his conversations with Warden were quite different. Published for the Author by R. Ackermann unknown books
198017580New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. 1st US edition. Maroon cloth spine with grey paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. NF/NF. 239 pp including index. Profusely illustrated. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/>Book approaches the subject from 3 viewpoints: the English under Wellington; the French under Napoleon; & the Prussians under Blücher. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
189720494New York: D. Appleton & Co 1897. 1st edition thus. Blue cloth stamped in silver & gilt. TEG. A tight bright copy. Nr Fine. xviii 380 pp including index. 2 pp advert at rear. Frontis of Napoleon. 8vo. <br/><br/>US publication precedes that of the UK. D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
6240Dresden: Sold by J. Budd Crown and Mitre Pall Mall; and Messrs. Richardsons Royal Exchange London n. d. 1st edition NUC NC 0716461. Modern full sheep with black spine label. Binding - Fine. Text - VG lower corner of 7 msg affects only margin no text. 190 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>NUC - 3 locations only NcD NN CU. Presumed issued in 1805. From the preface 'The author's sentiments are liberal: when he speaks of public measures and of the serveral govenments of Europe it is with candour and impartiality. He lays it down as a principle that until the dominion of France be confined within the limits of the late monarchy Great Britain cannot enjoy peace. It is his opinion that if the entire independence of Holland and Spain be not secured the French project to subjugate the British Kingdoms will never be abandoned. he predicts that the third war is not far distant. ' The author then gives recommendations to the nationr in order to prepare for the coming conflict. Sold by J. Budd, Crown and Mitre, Pall Mall; and Messrs. Richardsons, Royal Exchange, London unknown books
1981304222New York Macmillan Publishing Co. 1981 1980. 1981. First American edition so stated. Small 4to. Over 70 b/w illustrations; 28 b/w maps and diagrams; endpaper maps. Bibliography. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good-fine. 224 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co. [1981, 1980]. hardcover books
305569Paris Librairie Hachette et Cie. 1902. Second edition. 4to. Profusely illustrated. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in red and green backed in green morocco spine embossed and gilt stamped a.e.g. spine sunned to light brown joints well rubbed but solid. Very good. 319 pages. Pages 315-328 show examples of Napoleon's signatures and handwriting over his lifetime. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1902. hardcover books
1975303715Chicago Nelson-Hall 1975. 1975. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait; 10 b/w portraits. Chronology bibliography. Dust jacket designed by Martha Hall unclipped; short tear; minor nicks. Very good. 209 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Douglas Hilt on the front free endpaper: "with best wishes Douglas Hilt". Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago, Nelson-Hall [1975]. hardcover books
1910223295Boston Little Brown and Company 1910. 1910. First edition. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece and 5 illustrations. Original gilt stamped blue cloth t.e.g. uncut top of spine with wear; faded. Good. Bookplate of Phoenix Ingraham on the front pastedown. F. Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1910. hardcover books
1907304210London George Bell and Sons 1907. 1907. Crown edition so stated. 8vo. 47 gravure plates tipped-in facsimile 21 maps in text. Bibliographical references. Title pages printed in red and black. 3/4 gilt stamped brown morocco over brown cloth with gilt Cardinal's arms on the upper covers spines with raised bands titled in gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. Very good. 2 volumes. Volume I - 596 pages vii. Volume II - 512 pages xv. Printed by Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham and Co. London. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, George Bell and Sons, 1907. hardcover books
18891340633Paris: Perrin et cie 1889. Limited Edition 1/100 Copies. Softcover. xii 272 8 music; VG; Bound in original wraps glassine surrounding; mild shelfwear; "Amérique du Sud" written in red ink on the top edge of the front cover; "100 exemplaires numérotés sur papier de Hollande" this copy unnumbered; shelved case 7. 1340633. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Perrin et cie unknown books
1888276244London: Allen 1888. hardcover. very good. Translated and edited with a biographical sketch and notes by Raphael Ledos De Beaufort. Frontis. 403pp. 8vo gilt-lined and lettered red cloth; covers rubbed. London: W. H. Allen & Co. 1888. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Allen unknown books
192547341Albany N.Y.: J. Howard Randerson 1925. Edition limited to 500 copies this no. 76 8vo pp. 54; color frontispiece of family arms 7 photographic leaves; original black cloth over gray paper-covered boards; printed paper label on upper cover gilt spine; textblock cracked at page 32 but sound and very good overall. Laid in is a letter from the publisher offering a copy of the book to a friend. An account of "the extrodinary experiences" of the author in World War I with particular focus on his coining of famous turns of phrase including "No Man's Land" "Over the Top" and "Buddy" among others. <br/><br/> J. Howard Randerson hardcover books
1856181014Paris.: Ch. Meyrueis. 1856. 3rd Edition. Elaborate gilt blindstamped blue cloth. Very good plates toned old ink name to ffep otherwise a bright and tight copy. 18x11.2 cm. . French text. Scarce. A collection of Old Testament Biblical stories for young people. weight: 0.5 lb. 20 Engravings of Biblical scenes. Ch. Meyrueis. hardcover books