Storia di Napoleone del Sig. Di Norvins (4 Volumi) - Prima edizione italiana con note e tavole

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Author:  Jacques Marquet de Montbreton de Norvis

Publisher:  Presso i Fratelli Fabiani

Place of printing:  Bastia

Year of publication:  1833-1835

Product Condition:
Five volumes in good condition. Contemporary half-leather bindings with gold titles and decorations on the smooth spines, marbled boards: slight abrasions on the boards, edges and corners; scratches on the spines; minimal woodworm holes on the spines of the fourth and fifth volumes. On the front pastedowns the pencil inscription 890/5, in some cases legible, in others partly erased. Edges slightly browned, with foxing. Well-preserved leaves, some of which browned: widespread foxing, especially on the margins, partly also on the text. Collational formula: 1-31⁸,32⁶; 1-28⁸, 29⁴, 30³, 30*²; 1-28⁸; 1-30⁸, 31⁴; 1-31⁸. Woodcut publisher's mark on the title pages. With 79 copper-engraved plates, mostly folded; we note the lack of a plate in the second volume. Portrait of Napoleon on the frontispiece of the first and fourth volumes. Loose leaf of the Libreria antiquaria Mediolanum in the first volume. Text in Italian.

Pages:  (2),XXVII,(1),478,(4);4,466;(4),447,(1);(4),487,(1);484

Format:  In eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  22
Width:  14

Description

“After the eighteenth Brumaire (9 November 1799) I can say that I have been concerned with nothing but Napoleon”: this declaration opens the preface by Jacques Marquet de Montbreton de Norvis to his History of Napoleon, published in its first edition in 1827 and which occupies the first four volumes of our work; the fifth volume contains the “Maxims of Napoleon concerning war” and a “Napoleonic anthology ossiano Prose and rhymes dictated in honour of Napoleon by the best minds of our age” (there are numerous works in prose and poetry by Vincenzo Monti, including the dramatic action Teseo performed at La Scala on 3 June 1804: “Teseo's lips sound, but Bonaparte's heart”). The greatest value of these volumes, however, lies in the iconographic apparatus that illustrates the text with 79 (of the 80 original ones: the plate relating to the battle of Montebello and Casteggio is missing) beautiful copper-engraved plates, many of which are folded: in addition to two portraits of Napoleon on the frontispiece of the first and fourth volumes, we find portraits of the protagonists of the Napoleonic campaigns, geographical maps, battle plans and above all fascinating battle scenes taken from Vernet.

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