Books

It is very rare to find books stamped FONTAINEBLEAU, as the books from the Château de Fontainebleau, like those of the Palais Mulini, have been largely preserved in their respective libraries. As for the books from the island of Elba, Napoleon I donated the volumes from the Palazzina to the town of Portoferraio, except for […]

Almanac for the Kingdom of Italy for the year 1813. Bound in crimson leather with gilt coat of arms of the kingdom indicating the book comes from one of the Italian royal libraries.

A rare Imperial library volume from the private cabinet of Napoleon I, bound in contemporary gilt calf with the crowned Imperial arms of the Emperor and bearing the red stamp of the “Cabinet de S.M. l’Empereur”.

An official publication of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy recording the annual distribution of prizes for achievements in the arts, crafts and industry, held in Milan on 15 August 1812, Napoleon’s birthday.

A finely bound volume bearing elaborate gilt imperial coat of arms of Napoleon centred to both covers, containing Volume X of the second edition of the Précis de l’Histoire Universelle.

Finely bound leather volume of Œuvres de Fénelon, Tome IV. Paris: Imprimerie de François-Ambroise Didot, 1787. With cypher of C & crown for the library of Queen Caroline Murat (née Bonaparte).

A copy of Marie-Antoine Carême’s Le Pâtissier royal parisien, ou Traité élémentaire et pratique de la pâtisserie ancienne et moderne, published in Paris by J. G. Dentu in 1815. The volume retains its contemporary full-calf binding, the spine divided into compartments by gilt decorative bands and ornamented with repeated gilt motifs. The engraved frontispiece and […]

Leather bound volume on the history of the coronation of Napoleon & Josephine 02 December 1804, with engravings of members of the imperial family. The binding has been done by Pierre Lefebvre (signed “Rel. P. Lefebvre”), probably executed circa 1805–1807, in richly gilt Empire style using Imperial emblems appropriate to the coronation of Napoleon.