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(BONAPARTE, NAPOLÉON.) Le Sacre de S. M. L'Empéreur Napoléon dans l'Église Métropolitaine de Paris, le XI Frimaire An XIII, Dimanche 2 Décembre 1804. 40 engraved plates, including general title. Folio, 628x470 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 morocco gilt, spine (slightly faded) in 8 compartments, lettered in one with crowned N in the rest; text leaves variously browned, some foxing on plates. [Paris, 1806]
one of only 100 copies of a lavish illustrated account of the Napoléon's coronation as Emperor. Lipperheide (1963) 2720. With the armorial bookplate and Bibliothèque de San Donato stamp of Anatole Demidoff (1812-70), first Prince of San Donato and husband of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, niece of Napoléon; and with the bookplate of Roland Bonaparte (1858-1924), sixth Prince of Canino and Musignano.
