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140-FLEURY DE CHABOULON (Pierre-Alexandre-Edouard). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la vie privée, du retour et du règne de Napoléon en 1815. With handwritten annotations by Napoleon I. Published by Lucien Cornet. Paris, Rouveyre, 1901, 2 vol. in-8, LI-330 pp. and 334 pp. 1 facsimile (recto-verso), midnight-blue half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated with bees and an eagle, gilt head, cover preserved (period binding). Interleaved edition of the marginal notes written in pencil by Napoleon I on St. Helena, printed on green paper. "They rectify numerous inaccuracies and eliminate the "antechamber noises" (Napoleon's expression) reported by Fleury" (Tulard, 551). The introductory pages of T. I contain an 8-page facsimile of the Catalogue of the sale of books from Napoleon's library on St. Helena (brought back by order of the English government) by Mr. Sotheby on July 23, 1823. A fine copy. Ex-libris F. Chandenier.

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140-FLEURY DE CHABOULON (Pierre-Alexandre-Edouard). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la vie privée, du retour et du règne de Napoléon en 1815. With handwritten annotations by Napoleon I. Published by Lucien Cornet. Paris, Rouveyre, 1901, 2 vol. in-8, LI-330 pp. and 334 pp. 1 facsimile (recto-verso), midnight-blue half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated with bees and an eagle, gilt head, cover preserved (period binding). Interleaved edition of the marginal notes written in pencil by Napoleon I on St. Helena, printed on green paper. "They rectify numerous inaccuracies and eliminate the "antechamber noises" (Napoleon's expression) reported by Fleury" (Tulard, 551). The introductory pages of T. I contain an 8-page facsimile of the Catalogue of the sale of books from Napoleon's library on St. Helena (brought back by order of the English government) by Mr. Sotheby on July 23, 1823. A fine copy. Ex-libris F. Chandenier.
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