DURAND-BRAGER (Jean Baptiste Henri). Sainte-Hélène. Translat - Lot 182

DURAND-BRAGER (Jean Baptiste Henri). Sainte-Hélène. Translation of Emperor Napoleon's coffin aboard the Belle-Poule frigate. Histoire et vues pittoresques de tous les sites de l'île se rattachant au Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène et à l'expédition de S.A.R. Mgr. le prince de Joinville. By M. Henri Durand-Brager, marine painter, embarked on the Brick l'Oreste, part of S.A.R.'s division at St. Helena, dedicated to M. le Baron Gourgaud. Paris, Gide, 1844. Broadside, red half-maroquin with corners, ornate ribbed spine, double gilt fillet on covers. The illustration consists of 29 lithographs (the table of plates gives 30, but a note indicates that plate 17 has been omitted, as it was merely a repetition of plate 16), including 5 portraits by Léveillé and Staal, and 24 views by Durand-Brager (1814-1879), a marine painter attached to the staff of the Prince de Joinville. Durand-Brager traveled extensively in Europe, Algeria and along the Atlantic coast of Africa, before joining Eugène Isabey's studio. In 1840, he was attached to the staff of the Prince de Joinville on the expedition to bring back Napoleon's ashes, and boarded the Belle Poule. A very fine copy, with a few pale brown spots.