QUEEN HORTENSE AND HER FRIENDS, 1783-1837
first edition
1907 · NY
by TAYLOR, I. A.
NY: Scribner's, 1907. First Edition. Two vols. 8vo, pp. 310, 328. Illustrated with portraits. Covers little worn, one hinge tender, o/w VG. TEG, 2 photogravure frontispieces, and 24 full-page illustrations. Hortense was Napoleon's stepdaughter (Josephine's daughter by her earlier marriage to Alexandre de Beauharnais); the wife Louis Bonaparte, and the mother of Napoleon III. (Inventory #: 40448)