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BONAPARTE, NAPOLÉON. Le Sacre de S. M. L'Empéreur Napoléon dans l'Église Métropolitaine de Paris. 1806

(BONAPARTE, NAPOLÉON.) Le Sacre de S. M. L'Empéreur Napoléon dans l'Église Métropolitaine de Paris, le XI Frimaire An XIII, Dimanche 2 Décembre 1804. 40 engraved plates, including general title. Folio, 628x470 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 morocco gilt, spine (slightly faded) in 8 compartments, lettered in one with crowned N in the rest; text leaves variously browned, some foxing on plates. [Paris, 1806]

  • Notes: one of only 100 copies of a lavish illustrated account of the Napoléon''s coronation as Emperor. Lipperheide (1963) 2720. With the armorial bookplate and Bibliothèque de San Donato stamp of Anatole Demidoff (1812-70), first Prince of San Donato and husband of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, niece of Napoléon; and with the bookplate of Roland Bonaparte (1858-1924), sixth Prince of Canino and Musignano.
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