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ANTOMMARCHI (François Carlo)
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ANTOMMARCHI (François Carlo)
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
ANTOMMARCHI (François Carlo)
Paris, Barrois l’aîné, 1825.
Memoirs of Dr F. Antommarchi, or The Last Moments of Napoleon.
2 vols. in-8 (20.2 x 12.5 cm), red grained Bradel binding, gilt fleurons at the corners and centre of the covers, spine decorated with gilt motifs (publisher’s cardboard binding).
First edition.
Two frontispieces engraved on copper by Boulet and Couché.
The second volume contains an ‘Outline of the Flora of St Helena’.
Author’s signature attesting to the authenticity of the edition.
François Carlo Antommarchi (1780–1838) was Napoleon’s personal physician from 1819 until his death in 1821. A native of Corsica like the Emperor, he took up this post at the request of Napoleon’s mother and his uncle. He arrived on St Helena to replace Dr Barry Edward O’Meara.
After Napoleon’s death, he wrote these Memoirs in which he states the cause of the Emperor’s death: stomach cancer.
The cardboard binding is slightly worn; a few foxing spots. Excludes the rare album, which is seldom found.
Provenance
A Parisian bookshop in the 1980s.
Bibliography
Quérard, I, 73.
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