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Memorial de Sainte Hélène. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of The Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, By the Count de las Cases. Vol. I Part I: 174 pp, Part II: 168 pp. Vol. II Part III: 192 pp, Part IV: 164 pp. Vol. III Part V: 154 pp. Part VI: 193 pp. Vol. IV Part VII: 166 pp. Part VIII: 174 pp. VOLS. I-III Printed in New York: Published by E. Bliss and E. White, Collins and Hannay, Collins and Co., and Samuel Wood and Sons. J. & J. Harper, Printers. VOL. IV Printed in Boston: Wells and Lilly, Court-Street. All bound in matching leather with custom personalized front boards: Smith Ovutt. All published in 1823, 8.75 x 5.25", 8vos. In fair condition. Leather boards are all scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Custom gilt lettering on front boards lightly dulled, but overall presents well. Front hinges are split (boards still intact), binding exposed. Red leather title labels on spine remain intact & legible, as to volume labels. Heads and tails of spines rubbed, but still intact. Front gutters split - cording exposed. Previous ownership signatures found on all volumes' (but 2) contents page: P.C. Barlean. Volume IV contains an ink stain around signature. Toning and foxing throughout all volumes' text-blocks, with some instance of pencil marginalia. Fold-out in Vol. IV is toned around creases & torn at tail of gutter. A complete work. Bindings are intact, hinges are fragile. Included with purchase are clear protective DJs for each volume. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné-Joseph, comte de Las Cases (1766-1842) was a French atlas-maker and author, famed for this admiring work about Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He was born at the castle of Las Cases near Revel in Languedoc. He was educated at the military schools of Vendôme and Paris. The outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 caused him to go into exile. He spent some years in Germany and England, participating in the disastrous Quiberon expedition (1795). He was one of the few survivors and returned to London, where he lived in poverty, until finding his vocation in tutoring. He returned to France during the Consulate with other royalists who rallied to the side of Napoleon. The second abdication opened up for Las Cases the most noteworthy part of his career. He withdrew with the ex-emperor and a few other trusty followers to Rochefort. Las Cases and his son accompanied the ex-emperor to St. Helena. He then acted informally, but very assiduously, as Napoleon's secretary, taking down numerous notes of his conversations, which thereafter took form into this famous work. Having gained permission to return to Paris after the death of Napoleon, he took up residence there & published the Mémorial, and soon made a fortune from it. Smith Ovutt was, according to records from The New York County Supreme Court from 1768-1908, a notorious debtor. N° de ref. del artículo RAREA1823DQRB
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