LAS CASES (Emmanuel de)

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LAS CASES (Emmanuel de)
St. Helena Memorial. Napoleon in exile. Paris, Ernest Bourdin, 1842. 2 vols. in-4, Paris, Bourdin, 1842, 2 vol. in-4°, black percaline, on the plates, large central plaque, arms in the centre, smooth backs decorated with foliage with a golden eagle encroaching on a lightning bolt, gold edges. First illustrated edition of one of the beautiful books of the Romantic period, decorated with hundreds of vignettes in the text, two maps and 29 plates printed on applied China, including two frontispieces, woodcut mainly after Nicolas Charlet and A. Sandoz, in collaboration with Horace Vernet. Freckles on a few leaves as often. Very nice copy. We join an engraved woodcut used for the illustration on page 29 of volume I.
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