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128. CONSULATE AND FIRST EMPIRE. - MEMOIRS and...

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128. CONSULATE AND FIRST EMPIRE. - MEMOIRS and miscellaneous. - Set of about 35 bound volumes BONAPARTE (Joseph). Memoirs and political and military correspondence. Paris, Perrotin, 1853-1854. 10 volumes in-8, contemporary half-chagrin. Second edition, published during the same years 1853 and 1854 as the original. 3 folding lithographed maps out of text. Bookplates removed and scratched on the back covers and endpapers. Handwritten ex-dono indicating as provenance the library of the Duke of Mouchy. - BONAPARTE (Lucien). La Vérité sur les Cent-Jours [...] , followed by historical documents on 1815. In Paris, by Ladvocat, 1835. In-8, modern decorated half-brown basane, covers preserved. - BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT (Jean-Baptiste). Mémoire sur les Cent-Jours. Paris, Hippolyte Souverain, 1838. In-18, green half-basin decorated of the time. - CASTELLANE (Boniface de). Journal. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1896-1897. 4 volumes in-8, dark green half-chagrin, spines faded. Composite copy made up of volumes belonging to editions published the same year as the original. 6 plates out of text including a folding facsimile. - DELLARD (Jean-Pierre). Military memoirs of general b[ar]on Dellard. Paris, Librairie illustrée, [1892]. In-8, (2 blanks)-xxvi-290-(2 blanks) pp. half leather with repeated gilt monogram. First edition. Portrait-frontispiece. Provenance: Roger de Cormenin (monogram ex-libris on the back). - DUCOR (Henri). Adventures of a sailor of the Imperial Guard. [Paris], Ambroise Dupont, 1833. 2 volumes in-8, contemporary tobacco half-calf, a little worn with a tear at the head, wetness on the last leaves of the first volume. First edition of these memoirs arranged by Louis-François L'Héritier. 2 frontispieces. - DUMOULIN (Évariste). Complete history of the trial of Marshal Ney, containing the collection of all the acts of the proceedings. Paris, chez Delaunay, et au bureau du Constitutionnel, December 1815. 2 volumes in-8, bradel hardback of the period with red leather title and tomaison on the spine, bindings a little worn, first volume unstuck. - LAURENT DE L'ARDECHE (Paul-Mathieu Laurent dit P.-M.). History of the emperor Napoleon. Paris, J.-J. Dubochet et Ce, 1840. In-4, black half-maroquin with corners, decorated on the back with gilt imperial eagles, spine faded, first booklet unstuck. Wood-engraved illustration: plates out of text heightened with hand-coloured, and vignette in black in the text. - REISET (Marie-Antoine). Souvenirs. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1899-1902. 3 volumes in-8, contemporary brown half-maroquin, small tear in one spine. First edition. 19 plates out of text. - SCHALLER (Jean-François). Memories of a Fribourg officer. 1798-1848. Fribourg, Alfred Henseler printing house, 1890. In-8, half black basane of the time. Second edition. Portrait-frontispiece. - THIEBAULT (Dieudonné-Paul-Charles-Henri). Memoirs. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1894-1895. 5 volumes in-8, half-chagrin. Composite copy made up of volumes belonging to editions published the same year or shortly after the original edition of 1893-1895 by the same publisher. 7 plates out of text. Provenance: Édouard Pilastre (bookplate). - Etc.

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