Anne Jean Marie René, Duc de Rovigo SAVARY (NAPOLÉON IER)
Mémoires du Duc de Rovigo pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon
[Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo (M. de Savary), Illustrative of the History of the Emperor Napoleon]
A. Bossange|Paris 1828|14.50 x 23.50 cm|8 volumes reliés
First edition.
Bound in green half shagreen, spines with five raised bands ruled in black and decorated with gilt floral tools, gilt names of a former owner at foot of spines, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers bound in.
Some occasional foxing, minor rubbing to two upper corners, and light surface wear to a few boards without affecting the integrity of the binding.
Contemporary ink ownership inscriptions at the head of the wrappers, with blind collector's stamps on the endpapers.
A handsome set of these important memoirs from the Napoleonic era.
€600