Camille Ed Rousset (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1893. No Edition Remarks. 488 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to hinges and gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Book has slight forward lean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 2nd UK Edition. Red cloth with bright Gilt emblem to front (fresh with faded spine which is just starting to wear to heel, small mark to front) pp vi 488 with nice steel engraved frontis illus with tissue guard. Internally very bright and clean, foxed to eps, title page and frontis, paper partially separated at front gutter though mull is tight. Overweight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

2 Volume set, Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, frontispiece, xii + 356pp (vol 1), xii + 380pp (vol 2), illus, VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing to boards, 2cm tear with loos to bottom spine of vol 1, light tanning to page edges, light sporadic foxing to pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. New and revisied edition. 489p. Illustrations. One of Napoleon's marshals. Original Blue cloth with gilt lettering & crest on front. Heavy. Small rears in top and bottom of spine. Smokey smell. Very Good Copy.

First edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed boldly across the half-title in purple pencil, "À Monseigneur le Duc de Chartres hommage respectueux de l'editeur Camille Rousset". The recipient was Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840-1910), his gilt crowned monogram stamped at the foot of the spine. Chartes served briefly on McClellan's staff as an adjutant during the American Civil War and was present at the Confederate victory at Gaines' MIll (27 June 1862). During the Franco-Prussian War, under the pseudonym Robert Le Fort, he saw action with the Armée de la Loire. Camille Rousset was historian to the French Ministry of War. "MacDonald served with the Rhine armies from the time of Valmy. He was a friend of both Moreau and Pichegru, and although he almost certainly was uninvolved in their conspiracy, he was not employed from 1803 to 1809. Thereafter he served in all the campaigns of the Grande Armée" (Sandler). A smart copy with an attractive provenance. Sandler 2179 and Tulard 486 for the French first. Octavo (220 x 133 mm). Photogravure portrait frontispiece and one other similar plate. Contemporary French dark blue quarter calf, spine gilt lettered direct, marbled paper sides, Nonpareil marbled paper sides and endpapers. Lightest rubbing to extremities of binding, scattered foxing. A very good copy, bookseller's ticket of Fontaine, Montmatre.…