Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BONAPARTE, NAPOLÉON.) Percier, Charles; and Fontaine, Pierre-François-Léonard. Description des Cérémonies et des Fêtes qui ont eu lieu pour le Couronnement de leurs Majestés Napoléon . . . et Joséphine. 12 engraved plates, including additional title. [4], 24, [4] pages. Folio, 630x470 mm, disbound; half-title browned, with vertical crease, institutional perforated stamp in outer margin of letterpress title and 2 text leaves, plates clean. Paris: Leblanc, 1807

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first edition of an account of the 1804 coronation of Napoléon and Joséphine as Emperor and Empress, with illustrations showing the decorations designed for the ceremonies under the supervision of Percier and Fontaine. Lipperheide (1963) 2719.