LE NORMAND M.A.

MEMOIRES HISTORIQUES ET SECRETS DE L'IMPERATRICE JOSEPHINE Marie-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie première épouse de Napoléon Bonaparte.

Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1827. Item #150226

2nd edn. 3 vols. 8vo. (8¼ x 5¼ ins). Contemporary half vellum on marbled paper-laid boards, spines gilt tooled in six compartments with gilt lettered labels, red sprinkled edges (edges of spine and corners lightly marked - otherwise a VG set). Pp. [ii] + 462 + [1] table + [3] blank [&] [ii] + 479 + [1] table + [2] blank [&] [ii] + 511 + [1] table + [3] blank, with half titles, illus with b&w frontispieces (frontispieces and titles toned; previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-downs of vols II and III and neat inscription in contemporary hand at top edge of half titles of vols I and III).

Price: £400.00