Author: LANGON, Baron
Title: Evenings with Prince Cambaceres, Second Consul
Description: 1837. LANGON, Baron. EVENINGS WITH PRINCE CAMBACERES, SECOND CONSUL, ARCH-CHANCELLOR OF THE EMPIRE, DUKE OF PARMA. In Two Volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1837. First English-language edition. Frontipiece portrait in each volume. Octavo. [iii]-Xi,403;[iii]-xi,396 pp. Three-quarter green morocco, green cloth sides, spines in six compartments with gilt-stamped title and bee and eagle decorations, marbled endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Leather is rubbed along joints and at corners, and sunned and scuffed on spines. Some occasional, very light foxing throughout text. Very good overall. Tipped-in at the front of vol. 1 is a five-line autograph note from Cambaceres to "M. Joubers, commissaire ordennateur a Milan," dated 19 December 1808, wherein he expresses mutual esteem and his continued goodwill. It is signed "L'archichancelier de l'Empire. Cambaceres." Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres (1753-1824), French revolutionary and legislator, was deputy of the National Convention and to the Council of Five Hundred, second consul under Napoleon (1799-1804), arch-chancellor of the empire, and duke of Parma (1808). He concerned himself with legal and legislative work throughout his career. As second consul he played an important part in the preparation of the Code Napoleon. .
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Title: Evenings with Prince Cambaceres, Second Consul
Description: 1837. LANGON, Baron. EVENINGS WITH PRINCE CAMBACERES, SECOND CONSUL, ARCH-CHANCELLOR OF THE EMPIRE, DUKE OF PARMA. In Two Volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1837. First English-language edition. Frontipiece portrait in each volume. Octavo. [iii]-Xi,403;[iii]-xi,396 pp. Three-quarter green morocco, green cloth sides, spines in six compartments with gilt-stamped title and bee and eagle decorations, marbled endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Leather is rubbed along joints and at corners, and sunned and scuffed on spines. Some occasional, very light foxing throughout text. Very good overall. Tipped-in at the front of vol. 1 is a five-line autograph note from Cambaceres to "M. Joubers, commissaire ordennateur a Milan," dated 19 December 1808, wherein he expresses mutual esteem and his continued goodwill. It is signed "L'archichancelier de l'Empire. Cambaceres." Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres (1753-1824), French revolutionary and legislator, was deputy of the National Convention and to the Council of Five Hundred, second consul under Napoleon (1799-1804), arch-chancellor of the empire, and duke of Parma (1808). He concerned himself with legal and legislative work throughout his career. As second consul he played an important part in the preparation of the Code Napoleon. .
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Price: US$ 650.00 Seller: Boston Book Company
- Book number: 80110
- Book number: 80110