Mémoires Pour Servir A L'Histoire De France Sous Napoleon, Ecrits A Sainte-Helene, Sous La Dictée De L'Empereur, Par Les Généraux Qui Ont Partage Sa Captivité Et Publies Sur Les Manuscrits Entièrement Corriges De Sa Main. Tome I. Dicte Au General Gourgaud, Son Aide-De-Camp. Londres: Chez Martin Bossange Et Co., Et Henri Colburn Et Co. 1823.
Memories to Serve the History of France Under Napoleon, Written on Saint Helena, Dictated by the Emperor, by the Generals Who Shared His Captivity, and Published from Manuscripts Entirely Corrected by His Hand. Volume I. Dictated to General Gourgaud, His Aide-de-Camp. London: Published by Martin Bossange and Co., and Henry Colburn and Co. 1823.
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First edition, containing a foldout facsimile letter as frontispiece and four foldout maps. Very rare in the original fragile binding as this is, and indeed rare nonetheless in the original French.
Size: 147 x 230 x 30 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[folout, i-vi, errata, vii-xii, 384pp., four foldout maps].
Spine toned, cracked and lacking fragments. Paper boards toned with minor foxing and creasing. Page edges unevenly cut with light toning, creasing, and some page edges remaining uncut. Endpapers foxed. Foldout transferred onto title page opposite and onto itself. Text block very clean with very sporadic very minor foxing. Foldout maps lightly transferred onto themselves.
Front paper board dated 1822 while the title page is dated 1823.
[Similar example from the same year, OCLC: 966368710].
