LAURENT DE L'ARDECHE (Paul-Mathieu). History... - Lot 105 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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LAURENT DE L'ARDECHE (Paul-Mathieu). History... - Lot 105 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
LAURENT DE L'ARDECHE (Paul-Mathieu). History of the emperor Napoleon, illustrated by Horace Vernet. Paris, Dubochet et Cie, 1843. Large in-8, publisher's binding in midnight blue chagrin, on the boards and on the spine rich gilt decoration with rocaille irons and imperial attributes, crowned eagle in the center of the two boards, inner lace, gilt edges. Two frontispieces, one by Clerget, the other (Statue of the Emperor) by Horace Vernet, a portrait of Napoleon engraved on steel by Hopwood, 500 woodcut vignettes in the text after Horace Vernet, a copper-engraved plate depicting the emperor in coronation costume and 51 woodcut plates of military costumes after Bellangé, finely colored with gum highlights. Copy of the 1840 edition with a relay title at the date of 1843, containing, in addition to the 44 plates of colored military costumes usually attached to this second edition, 7 new plates by Bellangé, also colored, completing the suite, plates not mentioned in the table, as well as a plate engraved on copper in black depicting the coronation, all in the first edition. The frontispiece by Vernet showing the statue of the emperor on horseback is here colored. From the Evrard de Rouvre library (I, 1979, n° 151) with bookplate.
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