Jacques Marquet de Montbreton, baron de Norvins - Histoire de Napoléon - 1827-1828

A fascinating edition superbly illustrated with numerous unillustrated plates engraved by Couché fils and with 6 folding plans or maps -

Historian and self-proclaimed admirer of Napoleon, Norvins offers a narrative that gives significant emphasis to the character, the ambitions and the leadership qualities of the emperor, while placing his fate within the political and military upheavals that transformed France from 1789 onward -

The edition revisits the early Italian campaigns, during which the young general earned considerable renown thanks to his victories and strategic talents, and then the Egypt Expedition, which bears witness to the French ambition to establish itself in the Mediterranean basin and to weaken British interests in the East -

Jacques Marquet de Montbreton, Baron de Norvins - History of Napoleon - 1827/1828 - Vols. I, II, III and IV - Ambroise Dupont & Co - 453/480/491/539 pp

Good condition of bindings, volumes in their red half-leather from the period, marbled boards, signs of handling, some minor defects on the covers, split spine, worn corners, speckled edges, smooth spine with gilded titles, head- and tailpieces and author’s name gilded on morocco inlays -

Good interior condition, browning and stains, handsome vignette on the title page, illustrated edition with numerous plates hors texte engraved by Couché fils and 6 folding plans or maps, bound manuscript note, map of Egypt torn and uniformly browned probably from another copy, flyleaves in good condition, a pleasing overall impression -

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