Fine Books and Manuscripts

5 volumes of 8 (comprising parts I-III), 8vo (212 x 127 mm). Numerous folding maps and facsimile letters. (Spotting and offsetting throughout, tears and chipping to folding maps and letters.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt (joints and boards rubbed, chipping to corners). "Memoirs for use in the history of France, under Napoleon, written at St. Helena, by the generals who shared his captivity, and published on the manuscripts entirely corrected by the hand of Napoleon."