French│Empire Collection
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A small private Napoleonic collection in Sydney, Australia
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POSTES IMPERIALES

A copy of Postes Imperiales 1813, with Imperial arms indicating that book came from one of Napoleon’s personal libraries. Bound in red calf leather

POSTES IMPERIALES

A copy of Postes Imperiales 1812, with Imperial arms indicating that book came from one of Napoleon’s personal libraries. Bound in brown calf leather

NOCTURNES

A selection of 'Nocturnes' by the composer Joseph

Naderman. Reusing the Imperial bindings of an earlier volume.

SCELTA DI PROSE ITALIANE

Selected Italian prose with the gilt arms of King Louis XVIII, also bearing the private library stamps of both Napoleon and King Louis

NAPOLEON AND THE COMTE DE LILLE

A pamphlet written in 1815, during the 100 days, in rebuttal to one published by Chateaubriant in 1814