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LOT 2224
General Books - Histoire de L'Armee Francaise
1887 A.D.
8 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. (539 grams, 22 x 14 cm).
Paul Lehugeur - Paris, 1887, cloth covers, 221 pp, gold blocking to edges; to inside cover, pasted label indicating the book having been awarded as a prize for handwriting in 1892. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex gentleman.
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General Books - Oeuvres de Albert Samain (Three volumes)
1949 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Albert Samain - Au Jardin de l'Infante / Le Chariot d'Or, Symphonie Heroique, Aux Flancs du Vase / Contes Polyphèmes - three volumes, each card covers in slip case - Paris, 1949, numbered set (No 1080 of 2200). 1.4 kg total, 21 x 14.5 cm each
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General Books - Essai de Bibliographie Hippique - Supplément
1921 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Général Mennessier de la Lance - Paris, 1921, card covers, 64 pp. 151 grams, 25.3 x 16 cm
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General Books - Memoires du General Rapp, Premier Aide-de-Camp de Napoleon
1823 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
Général Rapp - Paris, 1823, marbled boards in quarter-calf binding, gilt fore edge, 439 pp; spine chipped. 494 grams, 21 x 13.2 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
First-hand account of the career of Général Jean Rapp, Napoleon's leading staff officer, written and published two years after the Emperor's death in 1821 with the series title 'Memoirs of contemporaries to support the history of the Republic and the Empire'. Rapp saved the life of the Emperor on more than one occasion, and was present at the battles of Austerlitz (1805), Jena (1806) and Borodino (1812), where he sustained several wounds. In his birthplace of Colmar a statue in his honour stands on the Champ de Mars.
