FUNERALS OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON (Les). Official... - Lot 92 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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FUNERALS OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON (Les). Official... - Lot 92 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
FUNERALS OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON (Les). Official report of the translation of his mortal remains from the island of St. Helena to Paris, and description of the funeral convoy, illustrated with woodcuts, executed after the original models. Paris, Curmer, 1840. Large in-8, paperback in illustrated mauve covers, folder, case (Devauchelle). Rare official report of the return of Napoleon's ashes. 14 woodcut vignettes in the text, plus two on the cover, woodcut by Lacoste after Daubigny. Header and cul-de-lampe. Edition in 32 pages, printed by Rignoux, different from the one described by Vicaire (III, 841) under the same date, in 48 pages, with frontispiece, printed by Schneider and Langrand. Carefully washed copy, enriched with six fumés on chine of Daubigny's woodcuts mounted on loose leaves.
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