Emmanuel de LAS CASES

Very rare first edition.

A few small spots of foxing, mostly at the end of the volume.

Contemporary quarter Empire green sheep with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt garlands and blind-stamped typographic motifs, gilt date at foot, spine faded, marbled paper boards slightly sunned at margins, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.

Edition published the same year as the first. Illustrated with a portrait of the author, three folding plates, a folding map of Longwood house and two folding maps.
Some foxing.

Full black calf bindings, smooth spines with gilt romantic motifs, boards with central motif in blind, boards ruled in gilt, a small restoration to the margin of the first volume's upper board, handmade endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, spine-ends ruled in gilt, contemporary romantic bindings.

Rare signed and inscribed copy to a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, on the title page of the first volume: "A Mr. Foucauld, ancien s. [sous] officier de la Grande Armé