Dieudonne Count Casas (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Dark blue paper over boards with gold lettering on blue patch attached to brown cloth over spine. Title page dated 1818. No date on copyright page. 228 pages. Boards have light shelf wear along edges. Blue paper over boards is rubbed with minor toning. Cloth over spine is Very lightly faded at ages but otherwise neat. Gold lettering on spine is dull but still very legible. Deckle edge pages. Illustration of Napoleon on horseback as frontispiece with French text underneath. Pages have light toning, text remains clear and legible. Text of part 3 is written in both English and French. Binding secure with no missing pages. Very Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

0 228 p. Book is in English and French. Fair No dust jacket. moderate shelfwear and chipping to spine ends, front cover held in place with tape on inside hinge, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 9 1/4 x 6 inches bound in worn boards and tape repaired spine - first edition - ex-library 228 bright pages - upper hinge cracked / loosening.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes bound in one.1818 Second ,1823 first edition. xii - 228 + iv - 318 pages. Some sporadic foxing to contents, the contents clean and tight with no inscriptions. Bound in circa 1860s 1/2 tan calf marbled paper covered boards. Spine in six compartments with ornate gilt tooling, with green title label. Some even fading to spine and edges, the binding clean and tight with no splits or chips. Half title present to the first part, no frontis to second part but not called for? The last section is part IV of a 4-volume work. Chapters include Reflections on the Emperors letters, My Residence At The Cape, Passage To Europe, Voyage From The Thames To Frankfort, Residence In Germany, From My Arrival At Offenbach Up To My Return To France. Count de Las Cases, has to be considered the only person to actually profit personally from exile with Napoleon on St. Helena. Las Cases was the very first to publish an account of Napoleon's treatment on St. Helena.…

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). xii, 228 pages (untrimmed) + 15 pages of advertisements. Slim 8vo, handsomely rebound in 3/4 brown polished calf, red leather spine label, decoratively gilt spine, marbled boards. London: Henry Colburn, 1818. Las Cases, a French officer, accompanied Napoleon into exile at St. Helena in 1815.…

Large folio (510 x 385 mm); printed cover title, 2pp. introduction, 1pp. list of subscribers, thirty-eight double-page letterpress sheets, in original wash colour, seventeen incorporating maps, one a double-hemisphere world and five having two maps. Original quarter red morocco with printed paper boards (these heavily foxed), the leather rubbed and a little scuffed and with a small split to the upper rear joint. Uncut. Some of the blank versos spotted. Interior otherwise excellent. Ownership inscription of Frances Jane Monckton [Arundell], dated 1813. London: Printed by R. Juigne and sold by S.A.B. Dulau [and others], Scarce atlas; the maps and tables are printed set in letterpress text.…