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NAPOLEON I -- A collection of 209 volumes, relating to Napoleon, from the North Mymms Park Library. Mainly London and Paris: 1796-1903. 8°, various sizes. The set uniformly and finely bound in 20th-century red morocco, the covers with multiple gilt fillets, at each corner a wreathed 'N', an imperial eagle or a bee, tooled in gilt, the spines similarly tooled in six compartments, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g. (occasional light rubbing). Provenance : Major-General Sir George Burns, North Mymms Park Library (house sale, Christie's 26-27 Sept. 1979, lots 874, 879, 882, 886, 893, 896-8, 903, 905, 915, 923, 926, 929A, 931-2, 935, 940, 942, 946, 948, 958, 961, 973, 981, 986). Sold as a collection, not subject to return. The collection includes: Comte P.F.J. de BARRAS. Memoirs . Edited by G. Duruy and translated by C. E. Roche. London: 1895. 4 volumes. 7 heliogravure portraits, 3 facsimiles, folding plan. -- George CRUIKSHANK The History of Napoleon Buonaparte. London: 1866. Engraved title and plates. -- Charles DORIS. Secret Memoirs of Napoleon by one who never quitted him for fifteen years. London: n.d. -- General Charles F. DUMOURIEZ. The Life of . . . London: 1796. 3 volumes. -- Comte de GARDEN. Histoire Générale des Traités de Paix. Paris: n.d. 15 volumes. Engraved folding maps. -- William HAZLITT The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. London: 1894. 3 volumes. -- The History of the Campaign of 1796 [-1799] in Germany and Italy. London: 1800. 4 volumes. Numerous engraved folding maps. -- Joseph MAYER A Catalogue of the Drawings, Miniatures, Cameos and other objects of art illustrative of the Bonaparte family . . . in the collection of John Mather Liverpool: 1854. -- The Napoleon Gallery, or, illustrations of the life and times of the Emperor of France. London: 1846. 89 etched plates. -- Napoleon 1er, sa famille, ses amis, ses généraux, ses ministres et ses contemporains, ou Soirées Secretes. Paris: 1840-41. 5 volumes. Numerous portraits. -- [NAPOLEON]. Manuscrit venu de St. Hélène, d'une manière inconnue. London: 1817. -- [NAPOLEON]. The Confidential Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, sometime King of Spain. London: 1855. 2 volumes. -- NAPOLEON. New Letters of Napoleon I . . . published under the auspices of Napoleon III. Translated by Lady Mary LLoyd. London: 1898. -- John PHILIPPART. Northern Campaigns from the commencement of the war in 1812. London: 1813. 2 volumes. Engraved portraits, folding engraved maps. -- Imbert de SAINT-AMAND. Les Femmes de Tuilleries. Paris: v.y. 9 volumes in the series, relating to the Empresses Joséphine and Marie-Louise. -- Louis A. THIERS. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon. London: 1893-94. 12 volumes. 36 engraved portraits. (209)