Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$193.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Bourrienne (1769 - 1834) was a fellow student with Napoleon Bonaparte at military school. He entered Napoleon's service in 1795 and served as Bonaparte's private secretary on the Egypt campaign in 1798. Although of questionable veracity, the volumes remain a valuable record of Napoleon's life, this second edition with much material and illustrations not published in the first edition. Second and preferred edition. 8vo. 4 volumes: Vol I: xxi, 392pp; Vol II: xii, 404pp; Vol III: viii, 400pp; Vol IV: iv, 419pp. Frontispiece in each volume, a folding plan, one facsimile & 22 portraits/plates. Three quarter tan calf and marbled boards, all edges marbled. Bindings bumped and bruised, chipped top and bottom of spines, rear board Vol I & II loose, front board of Vol IV loose.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Description: 2nd edition 3/4 leather Very Good octavo xxi + 392, xii + 404, viii + 400, iv + 420pp., frontis.(4), steel engraved plates, maps, index, Translated from the French. de Bourrienne was Napoleon's private secretary. Leather binding worn & fading to marbled boards but overall tight copies. Lacks free front end papers & light foxing to verso of frontis. o/w internally nice copies
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound set of the celebrated memoirs of Napoleon, compiled by his private secretary. Octavo, four volumes bound by Sotheran, three quarters scarlet crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, illustrated with engraved plates. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Based on years of intimate friendship and professional association with Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon gained the author fame upon publication for its vivid and detailed account of his interactions with Napoleon and his extended family. Invigorated by many dialogues, not only in which the author participated but even of conversations that he was only told about by others, the narration offers an intimate portrait of its subject: his brilliance, skill at governance, and military prowess.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Gorgeous Bindings, signed in gold by the firm of George Bayntun of Bath, England. Extra-Illustrated, with additional mounted plates throughout] 4 thick octavo volumes. Bound in crushed blue morocco. Bindings are sound, but have some minor shelf wear. Triple gilt ruled covers with Napoleon's coat of arms at each end. All edges gilt. Gilt spines. Gilt turn ins and dentelle. Some of the plates are hand colored. The pages are clean and unmarked. Translation of "Memoires sur Napoleon, le directoire, le consulat, l'empire et la restauration." Suitable for a superior library. A lovely set.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound extra-illustrated edition set of de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavos, eight volumes, bound in full 19th century crimson morocco by Riviere and Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spines in six compartments within raised gilt bands, central gilt Napoleonic coats of arms and double gilt ruling to the front panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings including frontispieces to each volume. In near fine condition. Based on years of intimate friendship and professional association with Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon gained the author fame upon publication for its vivid and detailed account of his interactions with Napoleon and his extended family. Invigorated by many dialogues, not only in which the author participated but even of conversations that he was only told about by others, the narration offers an intimate portrait of its subject: his brilliance, skill at governance, and military prowess.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$14000.00 + shipping
Description: Hand-colored portrait frontispieces, extra-ilustrated with portraits. 8vo. With a miniature based on Charles de Steuben's 1812 portrait of the Emperor. With a miniature based on Charles de Steuben's 1812 portrait of the Emperor inside the front board. With the extra illustrations, generally portraits of figures described within, it is one of the handsomest possible memoirs of Napoleon's private secretary, M. de Bourrienne. Bound in full brown morocco, elaborately gilt, a.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the J.L. Hudson Company, with silk endpapers; fine Hand-colored portrait frontispieces, extra-ilustrated with portraits. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.