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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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General Books - Louis XV et Marie Leczinska
1900 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Pierre de Nolhac - text and illustrations - Paris, 1900, 2 vols. in original cloth-covered slip case, 189pp.; handmade paper, coloured frontispiece, numerous tissue- guarded tinted plates, limited edition of 100 copies (present unnumbered marked as 'offert'); text pages uncut. 3.44 kg, 34.5 x 26.3 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
General Books - Outlines from the Antients
1829 A.D.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
George Cumberland Esq - London, 1829, hardback with quarter-calf binding, 90 engraved plates; boards detached. 2.33 kg, 37.5 x 27 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
General Books - Theophanis Archiepiscopi Nicaeni, Qvae Extant Opera
1590 A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Consalus Ponce de Leon - Rome, 1590, hardback (rebound), 176 pp. 190 grams, 17.2 x 11.3 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
This is the unique first edition of the complete works of Theophanes, comprising three letters from the archbishop of Nicaea which are now in the Vatican Library. The author, Theophanes, was active in the early ninth century; the translator, Ponce de Leon, was born around 1530 and was well educated, able to read Greek sufficiently well to translate it into Latin. He had access to a good library (possibly at the Vatican). He calls himself 'Cubicularius secretus' to Pope Sixtus V: a 'cubicularius' is a chamberlain, or head of the private servants; a position which afforded him access to both a great library and some very knowledgeable contacts.. This publication was edited by Ioannes Bonafes and the book bears the legend on the title page (in Latin) 'The existing works of Theophanes, archbishop of Nicaea; now first published in Latin from the Greek, in the Vatican Library'. A copy of the same book is in the famous Onassis Library (ref. 33522).
