HISTORICAL CELEBRITIES

(Books, Manuscripts, and Engravings relating to Napoleon and the French Revolution are to be the subject of a separate catalogue.)

NAPOLEON I. ROSE ET DAMETTE, en trois livres, traduit du Hollandais de M. A. Loosjes. (Vignette.) Paris, 1806.

12mo. Old mottled calf; in a morocco case.

Arms of Napoleon I on the sides.

On the fly-leaf is written, in Dutch, a statement by Van Opstate, Commander of the Second Division of the Royal Netherland Artillery, who says that, on the 23d of July, 1815, he took this book from Fontainebleau, where it was in the library of Napoleon Bonaparte, "the overthrown Emperor of the French." In the same hand, but evidently written at a much later date, is a summary, "from memory," of the principal events in Napoleon's career from 1814 to his death.

HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DE LA DIPLOMATIE FRANÇAISE, Depuis la Fondation de la Monarchie. Par M. de Flassan. Paris, 1809.

8vo. Mottled calf.

The arms of Napoleon on the sides, and the library stamp on the title-page: "Cabinet de l'Empereur et Roi."

ŒUVRES DE MAUPERTUIS. Nouvelle Édition corrigée et augmentée. (Portrait.) Lyons, 1768.

4 vols., 8vo. Mottled calf, red edges.

These books were a part of Napoleon's library at St. Helena. The title-page of each volume has Napoleon's arms stamped in writing-ink-probably the only kind available at Longwood. Napoleon requested that the books he had used most should be given to his son, the Duke of Reichstadt; but the latter did not live to receive the volumes. The greater part of the St. Helena books were placed in the Colonial Office in London, where they remained till 1853, when Queen Victoria presented them to

Napoleon III. The entire collection was destroyed during the Commune, 1871. Of the St. Helena books there remain, therefore, only the few that Napoleon intended to be given to his son, as they were distributed among the companions of his exile.

- JUGEMENT RENDU PAR LA COMMISSION MILITAIRE... qui Condamné à Mort Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon, Duc d'Henghein [sic], etc., etc. Paris, 1804.

4 pp., 4to. Boards.

The report and verdict of the court martial in the trial of the Duc d'Enghien, ordered by Napoleon to be printed for his justification. With a document signed by Napoleon.

HOMMAGE D'UN FRANÇAIS à sa Majesté le Roi de Rome. . . . Par J. Lingay. Paris, Didot, 1811.

4to. Large paper. Red morocco.

Contains a portrait of Napoleon by Henry, and an allegorical portrait of the infant King of Rome, both printed in colors. This is the copy bound for presentation to Pope Pius VII, who was a prisoner of state in France at the time of the birth of Napoleon's son. The papal arms are tooled on the sides of the volume. A prisoner in a foreign land, his Holiness doubtless received this tribute to a new King of Rome with much gratitude.

With a manuscript school exercise of the Duke of Reichstadt.

MANUSCRIT VENU DE STE. HÉLÈNE d'une manière inconnue. 1817.

The original manuscript of this work, contained in a small quarto volume, paper covers; in a morocco case. With copies of the first French, English, and American editions.

In March, 1817, John Murray wrote to Byron: "I have just received, in a way perfectly unaccountable, a MS. from St. Helena-with not a word. I suppose it to be originally written by Bonaparte or his agents. It is very curious: his life, in which each event is given in almost a word, a battle described in a sentence. I call it simply 'Manuscrit venu de Ste. Hélène d'une manière inconnue.'"

Murray's letter to Byron is dated March 20, 1817. The manuscript was published immediately, Murray's imprint appearing on both the English translation and the French edition printed in Brussels. On the 26th of May, in the same year, the book was published in New York. It appears that more than one copy was sent out to enlist sympathy for the captive emperor. The majority of the historians refer to the work as spurious; but Murray distinctly states that his copy came from St. Helena. The style of the writing is exactly that of Napoleon, and the work bears every evidence

of having been dictated by him. The writer could have had no model to imitate, as the works of Las Cases, Montholon, and Gourgaud, all acknowledged to be from Napoleon's dictation, are of later date. Professor Sloane states that Napoleon repudiated the work; but the same authority says that the book was "in the Bourbon interest." On the contrary, it is all a justification of Napoleon. If the book was not dictated by Napoleon, the curious question arises: Where did the author get the Bonaparte style, which was not established in literature till several years later? The work has been attributed to J. F. L. de Chateauvieux, but upon what authority is unknown.

MARIE LOUISE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH. ALMANACH IMPÉRIAL, An Bissextil M.DCCC.XII. Présenté à S. M. l'Empereur et Roi, par Testu. (Vignette of Napoleon's arms.) Paris, chez Testu, Imprimeur de sa Majesté, 1812. 975 pp., large 8vo. Old French binding by Tissandier; red straight-grained morocco, elaborately tooled on back and sides with the Napoleonic devices. (bees and eagles); on the sides, the arms of Marie Louise, inlaid in several colors; inside borders; silk linings and fly-leaves.

Bound for, and presented to, the Empress. Contains a list of the officers of all departments of the army and the imperial court for the year of the invasion of Russia.

DE L'INFLUENCE DES FEMMES SUR LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE. Par Madame de Genlis. Paris, 1811.

8vo. Contemporary French calf, gilt, with imperial devices and the monogram of Marie Louise surrounded by stars and a laurel wreath.

LOUIS XIV. L'OFFICE DE LA SEMAINE SAINTE, corrigé par le Commandement du Roy; conformément au Bréviaire et Messel de nôtre S. Père le Pape Urbain VIII. Paris.

8vo. Copperplates. Red calf, gilt edges.

Louis XIV's copy, with his arms on the sides, fleurs-de-lis in the corners, and a design of fleurs-de-lis and crowned L's on the back. The frontispiece represents his Most Christian Majesty handing his crown and sceptre to the crucified Christ.

DE BIBLIOTHECIS LIBER SINGULARIS.

Auctore Jo

hanne Lomeiero, Ecclesiæ Deutechomiensis Pastore. Zutphanæ, apud Henricum Beerren, Bibliopolam, 1669.

Small 8vo. Old red morocco.

Louis XIV's copy, with his arms on the sides and crowned monograms on the back. On the title-page are library stamps of the Bibliotheca Regia and of Mark Pattison, Lincoln College, Oxford.

LOUIS XV. PROPOSITION Concernant le Payement et la Police des Troupes du Roy, qui produira à sa Majesté une finance de six millions deux cens soixante mille livres. Inventée et proposée par le Baron de Sparre, Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Louis, Lieutenant-Colonel et Major du Regim't Allemand de Sparre, cy-devant Ayde-Major-Général de l'Infanterie dans l'Armée de la Mozelle.

4to. Bound by Padeloup; red morocco.

A manuscript of 84 pp., 4to, beautifully written and elaborately bound for presentation to the King. The royal arms on the sides, with wide borders of fleurs-de-lis and laurel. The Baron de Sparre was a friend of the Marquise de Pompadour, and his proposition is to reduce the payments to the army in order that the King may have more funds for his personal expenses.

POMPADOUR, MARQUISE DE. (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson le Normant d'Étioles.) IL DECAMERON di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, Cittadino Fiorentino. Amsterdam, 1665.

2 vols., 12mo. Bound by Padeloup. Calf, gilt sides and back. The Elzevir Boccaccio.

Mme. de Pompadour's copy, with her arms on both sides of each volume. These books are described in the "Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, Dame du Palais de la Reine." (Paris, 1765.) In the La Roche Lacarelle sale, her copy of La Fontaine brought 15,500 francs.

QUEEN ANNE. A COLLECTION OF SEVERAL STATUTES and Parts of Statutes now in force, relating to High Treason and Misprision of High Treason. London, C. Bell, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1709.

12mo. Old calf.

Queen Anne's copy, with her arms on the sides. Book-plates of Robert Day, Alderman of London, and Henry Davies.