NAPOLEON. Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte with the coun - Lot 98

Lot n° 98
Go to lot
Estimation :
800 - 900 EUR
Result with fees
Result : 1 011EUR
NAPOLEON. Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte with the coun - Lot 98
NAPOLEON. Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte with the count Carnot, minister of the Interior, during the hundred days. Paris, Plancher, 1819. In-8° of 112 pp. [followed by] Correspondance inédite du général Carnot avec Napoléon, pendant les cent jours. Paris, Plancher, 1819. In-8° of 135 pp. Half green romantic calf, smooth spine, gilt arms in the center of the spine and gilt date at the foot, marbled edges. Copy annotated by the president Sadi CARNOT, who added a long autograph note in which he gives his opinion on the interest of Napoleon's correspondence with his grandfather and presents as apocryphal those of the latter to Napoleon. This note was published as Réponse à Chuquet (question 482). The printing is attached. Enriched with an autograph letter signed by the bookseller Edouard CHAMPION, Paris, January 19, 1923, to Colonel SADI-CARNOT, offering him "9 letters from Napoleon to Carnot for the reorganization of the Empire, on his return from Elba" at the price of 5. 000 frs. With the arms of Elize GULSTONE (arms on the back, engraved bookplate pasted on, another one enclosed).
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue