Lot 122

EMMANUEL-AUGUSTIN-DIEUDONNE-JOSEPH, Comte de (1766-1842). Memorial de Saint Helene, London, 1823-35, 8 parts in 8 vols., 8vo, 20 plates and maps, attractively bound in 19th-century half red morocco gilt by Bumpus. (8)

Estimate: £100 - £150
Hammer price: £80
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

EMMANUEL-AUGUSTIN-DIEUDONNE-JOSEPH, Comte de (1766-1842).  Memorial de Saint Helene. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1823-35. 8 parts in 8 volumes, 8vo (216 x 135mm). Folding plan as a frontispiece to the first vol., 19 plates and maps, 3 of which folding (occasional very light spotting, staining and browning). Attractively bound in 19th-century red half morocco by Bumpus, spines gilt with French Imperial eagle and Napoleon's bee motifs stamped in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut (upper board of vol. VIII a little bowed with split to marbled paper, extremities rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Harold Harmsworth (armorial bookplate). FIRST U.K. EDITION. (8)

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