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SCOTT (Walter) Paris, Strasbourg, Treuttel and Würtz, Charles Gosselin, 1827. . The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. 9 vols. in-8 (20 x 12.7 cm), brown half-basane, plain spine (contemporary binding). First separate edition, published at the same time as the edition of Scott’s Complete Works (in which this text occupies 18 volumes). This Life of Napoleon, compiled from previously published documents and accounts by French and English eyewitnesses, sparked fierce controversy in both France and England. These controversies centred in particular on the treatment of the period of exile on St Helena. Worn bindings with some snags to the caps and clamps. A few foxing spots. Bibliography Vicaire, VII, 434.
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Auction time 09/23/2026 at 2:30 PM
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