CHAMBURE (Auguste de). Napoleon and his contemporaries. Pari - Lot 180

CHAMBURE (Auguste de). Napoleon and his contemporaries. Paris, Bossange, 1824. Large in-4, blue morocco, richly decorated and mosaiced ribbed spine, wide border framing the boards composed of gilt, cold and mosaic motifs with central medallion featuring the imperial eagle, gilt fillet on the edges, int. roulette, gilt and chased edges with, among others, engraved names of the battles of Dresden, Marengo, Arcole, Pyramides, Iéna, Lodi & Austerlitz (Piton). First edition illustrated with a title vignette and 47 hors-texte plates on Chine appliqué, including two frontispiece portraits of the emperor, all engraved by Fauchery, Alfred et Tony Johannot, etc. after Devéria, Steuben, Scheffer, Lami, etc. A work dedicated to Napoleon, whom the author considered a hero. He had fought alongside him in the Spanish campaigns. A superb copy in a signed binding by Strasbourg bookbinder Frédéric Théodore Piton (1800 - 1871). A few scattered brown spots.