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WARDEN, WILLIAM: Letters from Saint Helena. 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, are Faithfully Described and Related.
R. Ackermann (1816)
In original brown hard card covers wirh cloth spine and spine label. 215pp. plus 4pp pubs. cat. Portrait frontispiece of Napoleon and fold out facsimile of map with Napoleon’s handwriting. B/w copy of medal struck to celebrate Napoleon’s marriage. In good condition. Spine label rubbed and chipped covers rubbed and corners bumped. Hinges neatly reinforced. Neat owners inscriptions on front endpaper and at top of main title page. Warden was the surgeon on the Northumberland and describes his stay on St. Helena and his visits to Longwood House, the home of Napoleon in exile. He had attended Napoleon on the voyage out and afterwards some months at St. Helena, who probably talked frankly to him as to a non-combatant. Warden’s knowledge of French, however, was limited, and the conversations seem to have been carried on principally, if not entirely, through the intermediary of Count de Las Cases, who acted as interpreter, sometimes, it may be supposed, not in good faith, and always with a very imperfect knowledge of English. The conversations...he noted down in his journal, and from them largely filled his letters to the lady whom he afterwards married.
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85.00 GBP
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