Memoirs of Emanuel Augustus Dieudonné Count de las Casas, communicated by himself. Comprising a Letter from Count de las Casas at St. Helena to Lucien Bonaparte, giving him a Faithful Account of the Voyage of Napoleon to St. Helena, his Residence, Manner of Living, and Treatment on that Island. Also a Letter addressed by Count de las Casas to Lord Bathurst.
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Henry Colburn, London., 1818. First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 228. Nineteenth century binding of half brown morocco with raised bands, gilt motifs to spine, cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The letter to Lord Bathurst is given in its original French in the footnotes.An early ownership signature has been chemically erased from the top of the title-page and also from the top margin of the first page of the Preface. Covers lightly rubbed at the edges. Very good.
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- Memoirs of Emanuel Augustus Dieudonné Count de las Casas, communicated by himself. Comprising a Letter from Count de las Casas at St. Helena to Lucien Bonaparte, giving him a Faithful Account of the Voyage of Napoleon to St. Helena, his Residence, Manner of Living, and Treatment on that Island. Also a Letter addressed by Count de las Casas to Lord Bathurst.
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- NAPOLEON. DIEUDONNÉ, Emanuel Augustus
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