Emmanuel de LAS CASES
Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
Dépôt du Mémorial • Bossange frères • Béchet Aîné et Roret|Paris 1823-1824|13 x 21 cm|8 volumes reliés
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
€12,000
