BONAPARTE NAPOLÉON Appiani Andrea Fastes de Napoléon premie

Sale 2075 - Lot 9

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SIDNEY REILLY'S COPY (BONAPARTE, NAPOLÉON.) Appiani, Andrea. Fastes de Napoléon premier. Text by Pietro Barboglio. Engraved additional title with F. Chardon Ainé imprint and 35 plates engraved by Francesco and Giuseppe Rosaspina et al. after paintings by Appiani, all mounted India proofs. Oblong folio, 445x694 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 black morocco gilt, spine ends and extremities rubbed. Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, circa 1852-70

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Collection of allegorical depictions of major battles and events of the Napoleonic Wars done in the style of ancient Roman triumphal friezes, dedicated to Napoléon III. Appiani (1754-1817) was a leading Italian neoclassical painter.