SEWARD, DESMOND

Napoleon's Family

New York: Viking Press, 1986. First American Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in blue cloth over white boards, lavender lettering on spine, purple endpapers. Illustrated with eight pages of B&W illustrations on glossy stock. The volume is in excellent condition, tight, square and clean. Former owner's name neatly stamped on fep, else as new. The unclipped dust jacket shows only very minor shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE . Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (viii), 216 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 564

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SEWARD, DESMOND

Napoleon and Hitler: A Comparative Biography

New York: Viking, 1988. 0670814806. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0670814806. Quarter bound in blue cloth over grey boards, red lettering on spine. Illustrated with eight pages of B&W photographs and reproductions. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows only mild shelf-wear, else fine. FINE/VERY GOOD+ . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 319 pp. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 9872

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SOKOLOFF, BORIS (M. D. )

Napoleon: A Doctor's Biography

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1937. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering on dark panel on spine and cover. Inscribed by author on ffep. Illustrated B&W frontispiece and several other B&W illustrations. Includes Notes to Text, Chonology and Index. Spine and covers slightly sunned, a few scratch marks on cover, top edge of front board slightly worn, bottom edge soiled, endpapers browing, previous owner's named stamped on ffep, else fine. Clipped dust jacket, now in mylar, has several tears, else good. VERY GOOD/FAIR. B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xi, 292 pp. Signed by Author. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 553

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Keywords: History Napoleon History Biography & Memoir Napoleon Science, Medicine & Technology

STACTON, DAVID

The Bonapartes

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. Book Club Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine, fore-edge deckle, t.e.g. (red). Illustrated with 16 pages of B&W photographs and reproductions. Family Trees. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 379 pp. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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STANHOPE, EARL PHILIP HENRY

Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt (Three Volumes, Complete) with Extracts from His Ms. Papers, New Edition, with Portraits, in Three Volumes

London: John Murray, 1879. 1. Hard Cover. Three Volumes (Complete). Original publisher's blue boards, with gilt-ruled titles on spines and gilt armorial medallion of Pitt's monogram on covers. Blind-stamped monogram on spines. Embossed borders. Dark grey endpapers. Illustrated with engraved portraits: Volumes I and II have handsome portrait frontispieces, and Volume III has a facsimile of Pitt's writing as its frontispiece. Earl Stanhope's biography has long been the authorative work on William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806). It is "an indispensable authority on the history of the period." [DNB] Stanhope was an industrious historian who had the advantage of family connections which guaranteed him access to important manuscript sources then in private hands. The earl was thus able to include a great many letters and much other information that had never before been made public. Volume 1 deals with Pitt's life up to the year 1793 (he became Prime Minister in 1784 at the age of 25 and was Prime Minister for almost the whole of the ensuing 20 years); Volume 2 deals with the period 1793 - 1801; and Volume 3 deals with the period 1801-1806. Napoleon, in his musings from St Helena, always represented himself as a peace-loving individual who was opposed by a wicked Pitt. And it was certainly partly due to Pitt, among others, that Napoleon did not succeed in his dream of uniting Europe. An outstanding biography of Britain's longest-serving Prime Minister and an essential tool in understanding the politics of the Napoleonic period. Heads and heels of spines rubbed. All corners lightly bumped. Spines slightly rubbed. Contents near fine with very little foxing. Portraits are very attractive engravings. A very good set of this essential work. Scarce. VERY GOOD.. 8vo (9 x 6"). xiv, 494, (2); 10, x, 464; x, 461, (3) pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 1740

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TALLEYRAND, PRINCE CHARLES MAURICE; KING LOUIS XVIII; M. G. PALLAIN (ED)

The Correspondence of Prince Talleyrand and Louis XVIII During the Congress of Vienna: From the Manuscripts Preserved in the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Paris

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown beaded cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Prince Talleyrand. Authorized American Edition with Portrait and Descriptive Index, with Preface, Observations, and Notes by M. G. Pallain. Former owner's signature on ffep in an elegant hand, front hinge starting, old dampstains on frontispiece, not affecting portrait, otherwise unmarked. VERY GOOD.. Frontispiece Portrait. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 621, (3) pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 12801

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Keywords: Napoleon Tallyrand Louis XVIII Congress of Vienna Diplomacy French Revolution Napoleonic Wars History Napoleon Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

DE VILLEFOSSE, LOUIS; BOUISSOUNOUSE, JANINE

The Scourge of the Eagle: Napoleon and the Liberal Opposition

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972. 0283484942. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0283484942. Publisher's full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine. Translated and edited by Michael Ross. The volume is in excellent condition, the upper corners (only) are slightly bumped, else fine; unmarked, tight, square and clean. The price-clipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, shows only slight shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 260 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 355

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WARDEN, WILLIAM

Letters Written on Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland, and at Saint Helena in Which the Conduct and Conversations of Napoleon Buonaparte, and His Suite, During the Voyage, and the First Months of His Residence on That Island, Are Faithfully Described and Related

Philadelphia: M. Thomas, 1817. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bound in half red morocco over green marbled boards, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, with four raised bands. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and engraved facsimile. Warden was a Surgeon on the Northumberland which conveyed Napoleon to St. Helena. During the voyages and for some time at Saint Helena Warden attended Napoleon. Following Napoleon's final defeat on the fields of Waterloo in 1815, and his surrender to the Royal Navy and eventual exile to St. Helena, the public curiosity in England regarding the man who had terrorised Europe for years and dragged on a war that had begun in 1793 was overwhelming. Captain Maitland's perhaps better known account of Napoleon's time in the BELLEROPHON, the ship Napoleon had surrendered to, was not published until 1826. William Warden, surgeon on board the NORTHUMBERLAND, the ship that carried the Emperor into exile, was, on his return to England, "in a state of persecution from the curiosity which prevails respecting that extraordinary character." Warden had spent several month on the island and was in a position to observe Napoleon at close quarters. His account is illustrated with an engraved vignette portrait of the prisoner, a folding facsimile and a further engraved plate depicting two medals. The subject matter and criticism of the work sold many editions in the first year. The populace did not like the favorable depiction of Napoleon and the military and literary audience determining that Warden could not have been present at some of the things described took exception to his claims. Warden's French not being strong and his translator, the Count de la Cases' English being confused in conveying Napoleon's comments apparently created discrepancies in the conversations as Napoleon later said that his conversations with Warden were quite different. Edges rubbes, corners bumped and worn, boards rubbed, mild foxing throughout; former owner's wood-engraved bookplate (Daniel Delehanty Vincent Stuart Jr.) on fep, some light pencil sketches on ffep, pencil signature on half-title ("D. Lyman|Washington, D.C.|Friday July 18, 1879") and, in a light pencil of another hand ("Red & Blue"). VERY GOOD+.. Engravings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ix, (xi), 244 pp. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 1527

Catalogue: Napoleon

Keywords: History Napoleon St. Helena Correspondence History Biography & Memoir Napoleon

WEIDER, BEN; STEN FORSHUFVUD

Assassination at St. Helena Revisited

NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1995. 0471126772. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0471126772. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Includes Bibliography and Index. Napoleon was poisoned! The academic elite hated this theory when Sten Forshufvud first introduced it in 1961, but over the years, working with experts across the globe, he built an increasingly forceful case that an assassin killed Napoleon with arsenic. Assassination at St. Helena Revisited presents the most complete argument yet, and a growing number of authorities now accept its premise as an established fact. (See, for instance, Alan Schom's biography Napoleon Bonaparte.) Forshufvud and coauthor Ben Weider reveal their science and also detail Napoleon's final years of exile on St. Helena. The culprit, they believe, was Comte Charles-Tristan de Montholon, an opportunistic man who had both the motive and means to do the deed. A minor classic of historical and scientific detective work, Assassination at St. Helena Revisited will continue to spark debates, but for now it looks like the conspiracy theorists have the upper hand. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket is slightly creased at the heel of the spine with a a very small closed tear on the lower corner of front panel, else as new. AS NEW/NEAR FINE. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 555 pp. As New in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 9797

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WEIDER, BEN & HAPGOOD, DAVID

The Murder of Napoleon

NY: Congdon & Lattes, Inc, 1982. 0312925484. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0312925484. Quarter bound in maroon cloth over beige boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 18 pages of B&W reproductions. The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows slight shelf-wear, inch-long closed tear on rear panel. FINE/VERY GOOD . B&W Reproductions. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), (i), 266, (1) pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 558

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ZAMOYSKI, ADAM

Napoleon: A Life

NY: Basic Books, 2018. 0465055931. Stated 1st American Edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0465055931. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over gray boards, gilt lettering on spine, red endpapaers. Illustrated with numerous (39) color reproductions. Includes extensive Bibliography and detailed Index. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket has a small slice of the top edge accidently cut away during unboxing, else as new. AS NEW/NEAR FINE. Color Photographs. Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall. xvii, 764 pp. As New in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 28454

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