LETTERS WRITTEN ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE NORTHUMBERLAND, AND AT SAINT HELENA; IN WHICH THE CONDUCT AND CONVERSATIONS OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, AND HIS SUITE, DURING THE VOYAGE, AND THE FIRST MONTHS OF HIS RESIDENCE IN THAT ISLAND..
1817 · Pittsburgh
by Warden, Willia
Pittsburgh, 1817. 182pp. Contemporary mottled calf, leather label. Extremities rather worn, substantial foxing, contemporary ownership signature on titlepage. Good. An early American printing of this account of the exiled Napoleon. Warden was surgeon aboard the Northumberland, and herein transcribes many of the purported conversations he had with Napoleon. Editions of this book were printed the same year at Albany, Boston, New Haven, Newbern, N.C., Philadelphia, and Winchester, Va. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 42818. (Inventory #: WRCAM20984)