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Credit: Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1425 [NAPOLEON I (1769-1821). Emperor of the French]. AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF 222 LETTERS AND DOCU- MENTS OF THE NAPOLEON FAMILY AND CIRCLE, INCLUDING DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY NAPOLEON AS FIRST CONSUL AND EMPEROR, LETTERS OR DOCUMENTS OF HIS’ BROTHERS, JOSEPH, LOUIS AND LUCIEN, HIS SISTER PAULINE, AND MANY OF HIS MARSHALS AND OFFICIALS, ETC. THE VOLUME ALSO CONTAINS 71 PORTRAITS AND ENGRAVINGS. Bound together in a large folio volume, green morocco, gold tooled, with the Imperial eagle on sides. £250 An extensive and most important collection of letters and docu- ments of the Napoleon Family and Circle, and including two documents signed by Napoleon as First Consul and one as Emperor; letters from his brothers, Lucien, Joseph and Louis, his sister Pauline, his step-son Eugéne Beauharnais, his brother-in-law Murat, and a large number of his marshals and officials, including Andreossi, Berthier, Belliard, Bernadotte, Bertrand, Bertier, Bessieres, Blucher, Bruix, Brune, Cacault, Carnot, Charpentier, Duc de Feltre, Cléry, Davoust, Comte de Celles, Drouot, Mathieu Dumas, Fouché, Hoche, Jourdan, Junot, Kellermann, Lacépéde, Lafayette, Le Brun, Lefevre, Leclerc, Maret, Duc de Bassano, Marmont, Massena, Menou, Moncey, Moreau, Ney, Oudinot, Rochambeau, Rovigo, Ségur, Serurier, Soult, Suchet, Talleyrand. The volume also contains 71 portraits and engravings, amongst which are: Buonaparte, by Fuiesinger after Guerin; Bonaparte, by Bartolozzi after Appiani; Bonaparte, by Levachez after Boilly, in colours; Bonaparte, Cambacérés, and Lebrun, as 1st, 2nd and 3rd consuls, by Bovinet after Chataignier, in colours; Duroc by Noireterre; Napoléon le Grand et Marie Louise unis par le Génie de la paix, by Girard after Boizot ; Napoleon and Josephine, by Gautier; Napoleon II; Marie Louise, by Gautier after Pescorskyi, in colours; Napoleon, Joseph, Louis, Joachim Murat, Eugéne de Beau- harnais, Berthier, medallion portrait in colours, by Charon; Louis Bona- parte, by Douas after Desbordes; Joachim Murat, by Landelle after Swebach; Andreossi; Bernadotte, by Fiesinger after Guerin; Berthier, by Juliannau after Noireterre; Bertrand, by Narjeot after Boilly; Blucher, by Noireterre; Brune, by Tassaert after Harriet ; Carnot ; Duc de Feltre; Davoust, etc., etc. The following is a list of the letters and documents included in the volume :— NAPOLEON I. DOCUMENT SIGNED ‘ BONAPARTE.” 1 page, large folio. Paris, 19 Messidor, An 8. Also signed by Carnot and Maret.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31649932_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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