INCLUDES LETTER BY NAPOLÉON WRITTEN AFTER BATTLE OF THE NILE (NAPOLÉON.) LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. Extra illustrated with over 300 prints bound in, some folded to fit, including portraits, views and maps, some hand colored, and a Letter Signed, "Bonaparte," by Napoléon, one quarter of verso mounted to front blank and folded to fit. The letter, to General Honoré Vial, in French, instructing him to send hostages to Cairo, take control of Lake Manzala, and ambush the English frigate, and reporting that General Charles Dugua will be watching the coastline. 1½ pages, 4to, "Armée" stationery; final lines of letter text inaccessible due to mounting, left and upper edges reinforced with paper or tissue, short closed separations at folds, faint bleedthrough from signature on verso, faint offsetting from letter text while folded, faint scattered soiling. The book, 4 volumes in 8. 8vo, 19th-century morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt-lettered in two and others with bee or Napoleonic initial, gilt ornamental covers, front or rear cover of 3 volumes starting or detached, few scattered abrasions with minor loss to gilt; all edges gilt, morocco doublures gilt tooled with bee and orb pattern, silk endpapers, front or rear endpaper in each volume discolored from remnants of bookplate mounting, most plates lacking tissue guards with moderate offsetting throughout; cloth slipcase, moderately worn. London: Richard Bentley, 1836; letter: Cairo, 26 September 1798