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Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon
The Count de Las Cases
1824
Henry Colburn : London
8.5" by 5.5"
[3] iv-x, 375, [1]; [5] iv-v, 376; [3] iv-384; [3], iv-iv, 334pp
SUMMARY
A leather bound complete four volume set which contains the English translation of Las Cases, 'Le Memorial de Sainte-Helene', the private notes and conversations made by Napoleon during his exile.
Colour Plates,Early Edition,Folding Plates,Illustrated,Leather Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 4 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
'New Edition', published in 1824.
Bound in half-calf on marbled boards.
Illustrated with a range of frontispieces, colour plates, and folding plates.
This is the complete four volume set which contains the private thoughts and conversations of Napoleon Bonaparte, as recorded and collected by Emmanuel, Comte de Las Cases. Published in the French as 'Le Memorial de Sainte-Helene', this work was written when Las Cases accompanied Bonaparte to Saint Helena. He took numerous notes of his conversations and sought an opportunity to leave the island once he had accumulated 'sufficient literary material'.
This particular edition was a facsimile for the original edition, published to mark the bicentenary of Napoleon's birth.
Vol I (1824) contains the preface as well as 'Residence at Briars' with one folding plate and three plates, one of which is in colour.
Vol II (1835) contains contents such as 'Description of the Emperor's Apartment' and 'Papers from Europe' with three illustrated plates.
Vol III (1835) contains contents like 'Our Establishment on Fire', and 'Marie Antoinette', with five illustrated plates.
Vol IV (1835) contains contents such as 'The Emperor indisposed and melancholy', 'Alarming Change in the Emperor', 'I take a Resolution', and 'My lively Anxieties', with four illustrated plates.
Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonne-Joseph (1766-1842) was a French atlas-maker and author, who is perhaps best known for his book on Napoleon. He was expelled from France but returned after Napoleon's death to publish the 'Memorial' and make a fortune from it.
With one page of publisher's adverts to the rear of Vol I.
Collated, complete.
CONDITION
Bound in half-calf on marbled boards. Externally, smart. Some rubbing and edge wear to the extremities and to the spine, with some cracking to the spine of a few volumes. Volume IV's spine is lightly faded. Marks to board as well as spine. Vol I has been re-backed with the original leather spine laid back and new endpapers. Front hinge starting to Vol IV. Boards have detached completely from spine of Vol II, and spine may detach from binding with further handling. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with age-toning to the pages and the odd spot which increases to the first and last few pages. Offsetting to the pages facing some of the plates.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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