Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £80 |
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)