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Lot 203
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$875
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Lot Description
[NAPOLEON]. [WAIRY, Louis Constant]. Memoirs of Constant the Emperor Napoleon’s Head Valet. Percy Pinkerton, translator. London: H. S. Nichols, 1896.
4 volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I. Contemporary brown crushed levant, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut, crimson crushed levant doublures elaborately gilt, green morocco drawer handle onlays, green watered silk endpapers gilt (very lightly rubbed at extremities, otherwise fine).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 5 copies printed on Japan vellum.