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1805249883Milan: De l'Imprimerie de J. J. Destefanis 1805. First edition. 6 folding plates of cannon and fortifications by C. Piraud at the end. viii 9-216 p. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards rebacked to style in half calf with red morocco spine label light foxing to prelims and plates. First edition. 6 folding plates of cannon and fortifications by C. Piraud at the end. viii 9-216 p. 8vo. Napoleon's Seige Specialist. Francois Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat 1754-1833 was a French general who fought in the French Revolution and was chief of engineers in the army of Italy under Napoleon. He led the seiges of Maastricht Milan and Mantua. He reconstructed the defences of northern Italy during the peace of 1800-1805 during which time he constructed the great fortress of Alessandria on the Tanaro. He then served in the Polish and German campaigns where he directed the siege of Danzig and reconstructed many fortresses. Napoleon praised Chasseloup as one of his best generals.<br/>The detailed plates at the end of the work give plans for cannon and fortifications as well as designs for a portable bridge a well a sawmill and other instruments of war. <br/>Scarce; OCLC locates only 5 copies. No copies at auction on ABPC and only a handful of copies of the second edition appeared at French auction. De l'Imprimerie de J. J. Destefanis unknown books
1902276408New York: Outlook 1902. hardcover. very good. Translated with Introduction by George Kennan. xv 107pp. 12mo cloth; some damage to spine discoloration to front cover. New York: The Outlook Company 1902. Internally clean and tight in a worn but sound binding very good.<br/><br/> Outlook unknown 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
1810309945Paris: Chez L. Ch. Soyer Libraire-Editeur rue du Doyenné no 2 1810. With 54 plates 1 folding. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter blue levant marbled sides t.e.g. by L. Lemardeley. Bookplate of the prince d'Essling Victor et Fidelis. Fine. With 54 plates 1 folding. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Handsome copy of this compendium of beautiful line engravings of the architectural and decorative elements of the celebration of the wedding of Napoleon with Marie Louise of Austria on 1 April 1810.<br/><br/>From the library of the descendants of Napoleon's marshal Massena Duc de Rivoli and Prince d'Essling. Chez L. Ch. Soyer, Libraire-Editeur, rue du Doyenné, no 2 unknown books
1803222033Bound with: Gazeta De Madrid No. 33 Martes 26 de abril de 1803. La Imprenta Real. 1803. Bound with: Minerva Peruana No. 40 Martes 23 de junio de 1807. Lima Guillermo del Rio 1807. 8vo. Bound together in later salmon paper boards uncut. Very good. Rare. Total of 32 pages. News of the Napoleonic campaigns as reported in Spain and the New World. Hardcover. Bound with: Gazeta De Madrid, No. 33 (Martes, 26 de abril de 1803). La Imprenta Real. hardcover books
184743941New York and Philadelphia: E. Ferrett & Co. / Carey and Hart 1847. Red cloth decoratively embossed in blind and gilt gilt stamped lettering and decoration to spine. Worn with short tears and splits to cloth at spine ends; moderate soil to boards; light foxing throughout primarily to margins heavier to endpapers; p.o. signatures to ffep. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked binding a bit shaken but still secure. Good condition overall. Vols I - II and III - IV paginated continuously. 2 173 1 pp pp 1 - 16 Appendix to Vol. I; 3 pp 180 - 391 1 pp; vii 1 pp 9 - 189 1 pp; vii 1 pp 193 - 364 4 ads pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>Four volumes bound together: Vols. I and II published by E. Ferrett & Co. 1846 Vols III and IV published by Carey and Hart 1847. E. Ferrett & Co. / Carey and Hart hardcover books
37842BURGES William and Adolphe-Napoleon Didron. ICONOGRAPHIE DES CHAPITEAUX DU PALAIS DUCALE A VENISE. Paris: Victor Didron 1857. Small 4to. Publisher's wrappers. 58 2 pages engraved plates. The earliest fully-fledged publication by William Burges. Iconography was to play a very important part in his architectural oeuvre - both ecclesiastical secular. This ephemeral work launched Burges as an architectural scholar. I sheds considerable light on his aesthetic ideals during his formative years. After studying the Doge's Palace in Venice he paid a visit to the young Paris gothic revivalist Adolphe-Napoleon Didron. Didron made a similar study of th Doge's Palace and agreed to publish Burges study with the proviso that his ow notes on the Doge's Palace be included along with illustrations. Ruskin contributed one of the illustrations. Uncut copy; wrappers browned; professionally respined unknown books
184542475London 1845. First edition. Frontispiece of Napoleon. 28 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Half morocco and marbled boards original wrappers bound in head cap chipped else fine. First edition. Frontispiece of Napoleon. 28 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. This is a tract by a Napoleon denier. He just didn't exist! unknown books
1881S11186Paris:: Bleriot Freres 1881. 1881. Three volumes of five. Second edition. 8vo. 4 xiii 3 207 1 182; 4 209-936 100 5; 4 937-1636 80 7 pp. Light foxing to endleaves and pastedowns. Early quarter black morocco over marbled paper-backed boards 5 raised bands to gilt-stamped spines green place-keeping ribbons. Near Fine. Moigno born at Guemene-sur-Scorff Morbihan in Brittany a Catholic and physicist and a prolific writer studied at the Jesuit college of Sainte-Anne d'Auray. He made his theological studies at Montrouge devoting his leisure to mathematics and physics in which he achieved much success. At the 1830 Revolution he left for Switzerland studied Hebrew and Arabic then in 1836 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the College of Sainte-Geneviève Rue des Postes in Paris. / Two additional volumes were written in 1882 not present here although this is a beautifully bound set of volumes one through three. The missing volumes are sub-titled: Tome IV: La Foi et la Raison. Tome V: Le miracle du tribunal de la science. "Abbe Moigno'' Les Splendeurs de la Foi Accord Parfait de la Revelation et de la Science de la Foi et de la Raison of 1882 included a collection of information from scientists to support Moigno's thesis that science and Catholicism were compatible" Larson lxvi Other writers according to Larson championed this accord. Larson Barbara Jean. The Dark Side of Nature: Science Society and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon. State College PA: Pennsylvania State University Press 2005. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL APPLY. Bleriot Freres, 1881. hardcover books
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. ". dans une circomstance . mémorable". 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 books
181719533Londoon: Printed for James Ridgway 1817. Hardcover. Good. Third edition. 8vo pp 206 2 ads. Contemporary blue boards with paper spine label. Some splitting along the joints making the boards a bit wobbly but binding still quite sound. According to The Cambridge Modern History although these letters purported to be written by an Englishman they were actually translated from the French and "the original draft was secretly dictated by Napoleon to Las Cases. They were designed to impress the British public with the sufferings of the exiles and to furnish a defence to those episodes in Napoleon's career which had proved most repugnant to British opinion-- the execution of the Duc d'Enghein the death of Captain Wright the treatment of the Spanish Bourbons and the return from Elba. Printed for James Ridgway hardcover books
1891122635London: Printed for James Ridgway 1891. First edition of Napoleon's biographer Emmanuel Comte de las Cases' collected letters. Octavo bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere in an elaborate Cosway-style binding with hand painted miniature ivorene portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Louise Duchess of Parma set under glass within a gilt borders to the front panel and rear panels gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands elaborate gilt ruling to the panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled doublures and endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. Exceptionally rare. Cosway bindings named for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway were popularized if not invented in the early 1900s by the renowned London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran. The earliest Cosway bindings were created by Miss C.B. Currie who faithfully imitated Cosway's detailed watercolor style of portraiture from designs by J.H. Stonehouse Sotheran's manager. These delicate miniature paintings often on ivory were set into the covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by a thin pane of glass. Printed for James Ridgway unknown books
180241820London: Published by Cobbett and Morgan Pall-Mall 1802. Second edition. Printed by Cox Son and Baylis. 259 xcvi 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter red morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. rest uncut. Fine. Second edition. Printed by Cox Son and Baylis. 259 xcvi 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Published by Cobbett and Morgan, Pall-Mall unknown books
1816WRCLIT80439London: Published for the Author by R. Ackermann 1816. viii215pp. plus portrait folding facsimile and plate. Mid to late 19th century 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. others untrimmed. Spine and joints a bit scorched and chipped internally apart from some faint foxing a very good copy. Denoted the Third Edition. With the Rockwell Kent bookplate of American novelist Katherine Brush 1902 - 1952 and inscribed to her at length on the half-title: "Mrs. Katherine Brush Allow me to send you this little book which belonged to Napoleon III as a remembrance of Rio de Janeiro the gentle town where it never rained during your visit. Rio 4 Juin /34 Baptiste Periro 476 Marques de St Vincente Rio de Janeiro Brazil." Warden served as a Naval Surgeon and his account of his conversations with Napoleon was extremely popular albeit flawed having been conducted through a translator. Published for the Author, by R. Ackermann hardcover 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
34421Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Bibliotheque Nationale 1935. 269 pages original wrappers spine sunned else very good condition uncut. . Other hardcover books
1909WRCAM46228Quebec 1909. 440pp. plus plates. Original printed wrappers. Lightly worn at extremities. Internally clean. Very good. Untrimmed. "Containing chapters on salmon fishing trapping the folk-lore of the Montagnais Indians and tales of adventure on the fringe of the Labrador Peninsula." unknown books
19549012097Quebec: Telegraph Printing Co. 1954. 3rd . Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Previous owner's return address label on the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Telegraph Printing Co. hardcover books
1980227878San Jose Costa Rica: ANUDE / Asamblea Nicaraguense de Unidad Democratica 1980. Pamphlet. 16p. 5.5x8.5 inches text in Spanish illustrated with b&w photos introduction staples slightly rusty very good pamphlet in stapled white wraps. ANUDE / Asamblea Nicaraguense de Unidad Democratica unknown books
20229Roche-sur-Yon A Napoleon de l'Imprimerie de A. Victor Habert Imrimeur de la Prefecture. 1 vols. Folio 21 x 16-1/2 inches. Edges a little frayed on right margin with no loss else very good. 1 vols. Folio 21 x 16-1/2 inches. This broadside gives the details of the meeting the next day between Napoleon Czar Alexander I and the King of Prussia at Niemon in the pavilion. unknown books
181934762Paris: Plancher 1819. hardcover. very good. Par M. M. 8 parts in 2 vols. each part with separate pagination. 8vo contemporary 1/4 calf foxing throughout rubbed top 1 inch of backstrip lacking. Paris 1919. First Edition. Sections on Napoleon's private life the imperial court public life at St. Helene and assorted anecdotes.<br/><br/> Plancher unknown books
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 "Approuve 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 books
183632878London: Richard Bentley 1836. 1st edition thus with much additional material - and illustrations - not in the First Edition in English published in London 1830. Original publisher's reddish-brown cloth with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Pale yellow eps. Spines sunned to a golden brown. The usual bit of foxing. Period bookplate. A pleasing VG set. 4 volumes xxi 1 392; xii 2 advert 404; viii 400; iv 419 1 List of Plates pp. Frontispiece in each volume a folding plan one facsimile & 22 portraits/plates. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>Bourrienne attended military school in Brienne with Napoleon spent time in Paris with him during 1792 and formally entered Napoleon's service in 1795. Bourrienne's veracity has long been questioned so historians are dubious about portions of this memoir but that being said they nevertheless remain a valuable account of Bonaparte's life by one who was there from the start. Richard Bentley hardcover books
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 books
183698390London: Scott Webster & Geary 1836. Rare finely bound example of the Memoirs of Napoleon with a fine fore-edge painting of Napoleon on horseback leading his troops to battle. 12mo. bound in full red morocco gilt titles and tooling to the spine gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels gilt turn ins all edges gilt. In near fine condition with light rubbing. The earliest fore-edge paintings date possibly as far back as the 10th century; these earliest paintings were symbolic designs. Early English fore-edge paintings believed to date to the 14th century presented heraldic designs in gold and other colors. The first known example of a disappearing fore-edge painting where the painting is not visible when the book is closed dates from 1649. The earliest signed and dated fore-edge painting dates to 1653: a family coat of arms painted on a 1651 Bible. Around 1750 the subject matter of fore-edge paintings changed from simply decorative or heraldic designs to landscapes portraits and religious scenes usually painted in full color. Modern fore-edge painted scenes have a lot more variation as they can depict numerous subjects not found on earlier specimens. These include scenes that are erotic or they might involve scenes from novels like Jules Verne Sherlock Holmes or Dickens etc. In many cases the chosen scene will depict a subject related to the book but in other cases it did not. In one instance the same New Brunswick landscape was applied to both a Bible and to a collection of poetry and plays. The choice of scenes is made by either the artist bookseller or owner thus the variety is wide. The technique was popularized in the 18th century by John Brindley 1732-1756 publisher and bookbinder to the prince of Wales and Edwards of Halifax a distinguished family of bookbinders and booksellers. The majority of extant examples of fore-edge painting date to the late 19th and early 20th century on reproductions of books originally published in the early 19th century. Scott, Webster & Geary unknown books
