GASPARD GOURGAUD (1783-1852) and CHARLES TRISTAN MONTHOLON (1783-1853) Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de France, sous Napoléon, écrits à Sainte-Hélène, par les généraux qui ont partagé sa captivité, et publiés sur les manuscrits entièrement corrigés de la main de Napoléon. [Memoirs for the History of France under Napoleon, written at Saint Helena by the generals who shared his captivity, and published from manuscripts entirely corrected by Napoleon himself.] Paris: Firmin Didot père et fils, Bossange frères, 1823-1825.
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8 vols. in-8 (20.7x12.6 cm).
V. 1. XI, 359 pp., (1 f.), 1 plate, (3 ff.);
V. 2. 489 pp., 1 plate;
V. 3. XII, 467 pp., 1 plate, (2 ff.);
V. 4. 532 pp., 2 plates, (2 ff.);
V. 5. 428 pp., (1 f.), 2 plates, (2 ff.);
V. 6. 556 pp., (1 f.);
V. 7. IX, 392 pp., (1 f.), 2 tables, 4 maps, (2 ff.): 8
V. 8. 396 pp., 1 plate, 4 maps.
Contemporary half tan leather binding, decorated spine, yellow marbled edges (period binding). Half tan leather, smooth decorated spine, yellow marbled edges. Some wear to the spine, wormhole in one joint. Scattered foxing. Tear with no loss to the two tables.
Complete first edition of these important memoirs
published by witnesses to NAPOLEON’s captivity on Saint Helena.
They were written under the dictation of the emperor by General Gaspard Gourgaud (1783-1852), General Charles Tristan Montholon (1783-1853), chamberlain to NAPOLEON, and Count Henri Gatien Bertrand (1773-1844).
The first two volumes were edited by Gourgaud and the other six by Montholon. The edition is illustrated with eight facsimiles and eight fold-out maps. It also includes two fold-out tables