Capitaine Danrit (Émile Driant) ; Paul de Sémant - Filleuls de Napoléon (1830-1870) - 1900

Captain Danrit (Lieutenant Colonel Émile Driant, killed at Verdun in 1916) – Godfathers of Napoleon. History of a soldier family, 2nd period: 1830-1870. Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, s.d. (circa 1900). Second edition.

Numerous illustrations by Paul de Sémant, in the text and full page. The novel follows the Cardignac family in Algeria, in Crimea, in Italy and up to 1870.

Publisher’s hardcover in red cloth. Large polychrome and gilt plate on the front board, in vivid colors. Polychrome medallion (officer, palm, Légion d’honneur) on the rear board. Untrimmed edges.

Condition: spine worn and frayed at the tips and joints, with a loss at the head. Light rubbing at the borders. Paper yellowed with some foxing. The first three leaves detach. The body of the work is otherwise solid.