memoirs duchess dabrantès (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. With b/w illustrations. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Doubleday, (1989). A fine copy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Fronts, plates; final leaf of vol. I carefully repaired in outer margin. Contemp. full calf, gilt spine, black leather labels; spines & corners a little rubbed. Armorial bookplates of Henry Sherbrooke. The first English edition of a work first published in French in 18 parts, 1831-35, under the title Mémoires de Madame la duchesse d'Abrantès, ou Souvenirs historiques sur Napoléon: la Révolution, le Directoire, le Consulat, l'Empire et la Restauration. The memoir forms a detailed picture of Napoleon and his circle, by an acquaintance and sympathiser: 'I have witnessed, and have even been engaged in many of the agitated scenes which occurred during an epoch of wonder and horror; and though I was at the time very young, every incident remains indelibly engraven on my memory'.

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. 8 volumes, extra illustrated. 8vo, 3/4 burgundy morocco with ornately gilt spines over marbled boards, top edges gilt. London: Henry Colburn, 1831. Near fine.