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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: This steel-engraved plate is from the first English edition of the "Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family" by Madame Laurie Junot, Duchess D'Abrantes, published by Richard Bentley in London in 1836. Engraved by W. Read from an original painting by Cossio (Verona, 1797) . Print. 5.5" x 8.5"
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Each hardcover, H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Handsome full leather bindings; spines decorated with five slightly raised bands delineating six compartments which in turn have gilt tooling for four compartments with gilt lettered maroon title label and black volume label in other two compartments; slender gilt tooling to board edges. Some scuffing to spines and boards; Volume I's spine tailband unthreading. Marbled edges; marbled endpapers with both volumes' front pastedowns having patches of peeling presumably from removed bookplates; each volumes' title page has past owner's elaborate black ink name stamp "P.J. Maxwell" at their top right. Toning and foxing throughout both volumes with a few page corners creased from fold-downs. VOLUME I: 548 pages; pencil notations on rear flyleaf verso. VOLUME II: 520 pages; a few chips to pages 519-520 causing slight text loss; antiquarian ink writing and blotting to rear flyleaf with some pencil calculations as well. Bindings are firm. P.J. Maxwell was a mid-19th century resident of Columbus, Mississippi. Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 4.5 pounds (2 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Price: US$106.31 + shipping
Description: 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'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$194.25 + shipping
Description: 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 548; 2 p.l., 520. with half-title in Vol. II only. 15 (of 16) engraved portraits: lacking frontis. in Vol. I. later roan (rubbed, some foxing to plates). First Edition of the English Translation. The wife of General Junot "became noted for her beauty, her caustic wit, and her extravagance. The first consul nicknamed her petite peste, but treated her and Junot with the utmost generosity, a fact which did not restrain her sarcasms and slanders in her portrayal of him in her Memoirs." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.)
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$589.20 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. [2], 548; [2], 520 p. 16 plates. Contemporary bindings in dark blue morocco. The boards panelled with a wide twisted ribbon roll inside a two line roll. The spines gilt between wide flat bands, lettered in the second and fourth compartments. Minor shelf wear only. The text is clean and tight with light offsetting from the plates. A handsome set.
Seller: Cobnar Books, Deal, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, two volumes, Publishers original embossed purple cloth with gilt-lettered spines, 16 plates., pages untuned. Some light bumping to a couple of corners, Spines are sun-faded (though gilt remains bright) but a handsome near-fine copy of a set now seldom seen in the original cloth or in collectible condition. First edition in English of this sarcastic and slanderous portrayal of Napoleon, with 16 full-page engraved portraits, most by William Read. Madame Laure Junot, wife of French general and diplomat Jean-Andoche Junot, was a firsthand witness to many of the intrigues of the consulate. She immediately entered into the gay life of Paris, and became "noted for her beauty, her caustic wit, and her extravagance. Napoleon nicknamed her petite peste, but treated her and Junot with the utmost generosity, a fact which did not restrain her sarcasms and slanders in her portrayal of him in her Memoirs" (Robert Ouvrard). The Memoirs of Napoleon, originally published in Paris in 1831-35, were among the most popular of the period.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.