Details

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]

Provenance

Property of an Essex gentleman.

Footnotes

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.