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Antique Document Manuscripts:Dated 1807 Napoleon Par La Grace De Dieu, double stamped, government/official. Good condition, wear to edges, small hole which does not effect the text. 4 pages of hand writing, A3 size when opened. Signed.Please view the photographs for more information. Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

Antique Document Manuscripts:Dated 1809 Napoleon Par La Grace De Dieu, 3 stamps including the central Imperial Timbre watermark, government/official. Good condition, wear to edges, small hole which does not effect the text. 4 pages of hand writing, A3 size when opened. Signed.Please view the photographs for more information. Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

332 pages, 8vo, 595 grams. Wear to boards, without spine cover, still tightly bound, pages near fine. Please view the photographs for more information.

Oeuvres de Félix Nogaret. 8vo, 2 vols. 19, (1), 226 pp. (4), 244 pp. Very Scarce first edition. Pages are very good. One title page for both books, Tome Second crossed out and Premier written in Ink. L'Aristenete Francais title of 2nd, no pages appear missing, great condition for age. Rare first edition of this libertine adaptation of an equally colourful Greek author's "letters on love" from the 6th century BC. Calling himself the "French Aristaenetus", Nogaret boasts here that his translation is far superior to that of René le Sage; the Biographie Universelle notes that in addition to the translations, Nogaret adds a number of "letters" of his own to the collection. The present copy has a pleasing provenance, preserved in its original binding of Jérome Buonaparte, youngest brother of Napoleon I; and it may well have survived the great fire of 1871 which destroyed most of the Imperial Library. "The majority of Aristenete's letters are concerned with the description of extramarital affairs; they… Read More