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Price: US$272.25 + shipping
Description: Number 87 of 100 specially bound copies signed by Somerset de Chair, from an overall limitation of 500, 12mo. (110 x 145mm (4¼ x 5¾ inches)), engraved portrait frontispiece, original vellum gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers decorated with a honeycomb design and Napoleonic bee, very minor splaying, gilt edges, a fine copy. An attractive translated edition of the work written by Napoleon at the age of 23, shortly before the siege of Toulon, extolling the virtues of a Revolutionary army in France's time of need. Cockalorum 166
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
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Condition: Fine
Description: GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS A FINE COPY Bonaparte (Napoleon) Translated by Somerset de Chair Limited edition, number 13 of 100 copies specially bound and signed by the translator, from an edition of 500 copies, 38pp., black and white portrait of the author, all edges gilt, original vellum, blocked in gilt in honey combed pattern around a bee on both covers, Cockalorum 166) A FINE COPY
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Bonaparte, Napoleon. SUPPER AT BEAUCAIRE. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945.
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Description: Translated into English for the first time by Somerset de Chair. Pp. 38+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait; demy l6mo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full vellum, spine lettered in gilt, boards blocked in gilt with an overall honeycomb pattern surrounding a central bee emblem, the boards slightly sprung; a.e.g.; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, this being one of 100 copies thus bound, printed on Batchelor's hand-made paper, and signed by the translator. Cockalorum 166. *From the library of Sir Thomas Ramsay, with his discreet ownership stamp in blind on the upper free endpaper. Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his small book label on the upper pastedown. 'A masterly manifesto written by Napoleon during his residence in Marseilles. Taking the form of a conversation between a soldier and a number of companions who discuss revolutionary topics in an inn, it had a powerful effect' [Cockalorum p. 25].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia