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LOT 2221
General Books - Memoires du General Rapp, Premier Aide-de-Camp de Napoleon
1823 A.D.
8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (494 grams, 21 x 13.2 cm).
Général Rapp - Paris, 1823, marbled boards in quarter-calf binding, gilt fore edge, 439 pp; spine chipped. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex gentleman.
FootnotesFirst-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.
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LOT 2221
General Books - Memoires du General Rapp, Premier Aide-de-Camp de Napoleon
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
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Opening Bid: £100
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Opening Bid: £150
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Opening Bid: £250
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Property of an Essex gentleman.
Original calf binding, still mostly tight and with tables and charts: a concordance of chronometric calculations using the Roman Julian calendar, the solar calendar of the Egyptians, the lunar calendar of the Arabs and the Hebrew metrics based in these three traditions.
