‎ROBERT BURNAND‎
‎NAPOLEON‎

‎Napoléon, images de légende‎

‎Catalogue d'exposition, Musée de l'image, 4 mai-14septembre 2003, 104 pp., broché, bon état.‎

‎Frédéric César Laharpe 1754 - 1838, précepteur du Tsar Alexandre 1er, antagoniste de Napoléon, libérateur du pays de Vaud, batisseur de la Suisse actuelle,‎

‎La Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1969, 426 pp., relié, illustrations, jaquette légèrement salie, légères traces de rousseurs sur la tranche supérieure, bon état.‎

‎[Napoléon et divers. Imagerie d'Épinal. Pellerin]. Collection de 96 grandes images d'Épinal.‎

‎Épinal, Fabrique de Pellerin, Imprimeur-Libraire, [1860 ca]. 96 planches en couleurs (64 x 41 cm chacune) montées sur carton et onglets, reliées en 1 vol. grand in-folio oblong, demi-basane verte à coins (reliure de l'époque). ‎

‎Importante collection d'imageries publiées par Pellerin à Épinal représentant les principaux événements de la vie de Napoléon Ier, les grandes batailles de la Monarchie de Juillet et des sujets de culture populaire.L'Imagerie Pellerin, fondée en 1796 à Épinal par Jean-Charles Pellerin (1756-1827), maître cartier, fut le principal vecteur de la diffusion populaire de la légende napoléonienne en France. À partir de 1810, Pellerin modernisa sa production en une véritable industrie de l'image, « profondément napoléonien » : de 1829 à 1845, l'imagerie célébra l'Empereur, sa famille, ses maréchaux et ses victoires, contribuant selon les historiens « à la prise du pouvoir par Louis-Napoléon ». Les bois gravés et les pierres lithographiques, classés aux monuments historiques depuis 1991, constituèrent un fonds iconographique de plusieurs centaines de milliers d'images. La plupart de ces pièces, notamment celles sur le crédit ou les batailles, ont été dessinées ou gravées par de grands noms de l'imagerie comme François Georgin.Cette collection réunit 59 portraits de Napoléon, sa famille, les généraux (Kleber, Ney, Lassalle, Damrémont, Gérard, Bertrand, etc.), les batailles (Fleurus, Lodi, Rivoli, les Pyramides, Marengo,Austerlitz, Iéna, Essling,Wagram, la Moskova, Lützen, prise d’Alexandrie, pas- sage de la Bérézina, du pont d’Arcole, entrée de Napoléon à Madrid, au camp de Boulogne, aux pyramides, Napoléon blessé à Ratisbonne, Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène, etc.) ; suivi de 15 planches de conquêtes militaires sous la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet (précédées de la Prise de la Bastille 1789) : combat de Navarin 1827, le siège de la citadelle d’Anvers 1832, prise de Mascara 1835, d’Alger, de Constantinople, bataille de l’Isly 1844, combat des Polonais contre la Russie ; enfin 22 illustrations de culture populaire, satirique et religieuse souvent diffusées par les colporteurs dont L'Arbre d'amour, Les Sept péchés capitaux ou la fameuse double critique de l'endettement avec Donnera-t-on quelque chose à crédit ? et Crédit est mort mais aussi les contes, légendes et chansons (Le Roi Dagobert, Le Juif-Errant, Gargantua) ; la grande planche Le Degré des âges (de la vie) ferme ce remarquable recueil d'imageries d'Épinal.Provenance : Bernard Franck (1848-1924) grand industriel du textile, l’un des plus célèbres collectionneurs français de militaria et d'objets de l’époque napoléonienne, avec ex-libris et cachet répété. Sa collection servait et sert toujours de référence mondiale dans ce domaine. Une partie de la collection Franck fut dispersée après sa mort en une quinzaine de ventes aux enchères, la plupart anonymes. Cinq portent cependant son nom : quatre de 1931 à 1935, une en 1955. Collections Bernard-Franck, Deuxième vente, Bibliothèque, 1935, n°117.Garnier-Pellé & Bourjol-Couteron, L'Imagerie populaire française ; Dominique Lerch, Imagerie populaire en Alsace et dans l'Est de la France, p. 134 ; Napoléon, images de légende, catalogue d'exposition, Musée de l'image. Reliure partiellement épidermée, coupes et coins frottés ; dix planches rognées court en tête.Inventaire 1 • Famille impériale ; 2 • Gloires nationale. Napoléon ; 3 • Napoléon et son fils ; 4 • Le Duc de Reichstadt ; 5 • Gloire nationale. Kléber ; 6 • Gloire nationale. Maréchal Ney ; 7 • Gloire nationale. Lasalle ; 8 • Gloire nationale. Damrémont ; 9 • Le Maréchal Gérard ; 10 •Gloire nationale. Betrand ; 11 • Gloire nationale. Poniatowski ; 12 • Gloires nationale. Eugène Bauharnais (sic) ; 13 • Espartero ; 14 • Léopold Ier roi des Belges ; 15 • Portrait de Mgr Sibour, archevêque de Paris ; 16 • Napoléon ; 17 •Le Vengeur - combat naval ; 18 • Napoléon au Siège de Toulon ; 19 • Bataille de Fleurus ; 20 • Honneur au courage malheureux ; 21 • Bataille et passage du Pont de Lodi ; 22 • Passage du Pont d'Arcole ; 23 • Valeur et Humanité ; 24 • Bataille de Rivoli ; 25 • Défense héroïque de Mazagran ; 26 • Bataille des Pyramides ; 27 •Napoléon aux Pyramides ; 28 • Prise d'Alexandrie ; 29 • Bonaparte touchant les pestiférés ; 30 • Vous êtes grand comme le monde ! ; 31 • Passage du Mont Saint-Bernard ; 32 • Bataille de Marengo ; 33 • Napoléon et la mère du grenadier ; 34 • Napoléon au camp de Boulogne ; 35 • Sire ce linceul vaut bien la Croix !! 36 • Capitulation d'Ulm ; 37 • Veille d'Austerlitz ; 38 • Bataille d'Austerlitz ; 39 • Bataille d'Iéna ; 40 • Entrée de Napoléon à Madrid ; 41 • Bataille d'Esling. Mort de Montebello ; 42 • Bataille de Wagram ; 43 • Napoléon blessé à Ratisbonne ; 44 • Bataille de la Moscowa ; 45 • Passage de la Bérésina ; 46 • Bataille de Lutzen ; 47 • Napoléon à Montereau ; 48 •Napoléon à Arcis-sur-Aube ; 49 • Les adieux de Fontainebleau ; 50 • Le retour de l'île d'Elbe ; 51 • Chacun son métier ; 52 • Débarquement de Napoléon ; 53 • Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène ; 54 • Entrée de Napoléon à Grenoble ; 55 • Mort de Napoléon-le-Grand ; 56 • Exhumation des cendres ; 57 • Napoléon sur la colonne ; 58 • Derniers moments de Napoléon ; 59 • Siège de la citadelle d'Anvers (1832) ; 60 • Prise de Mascara ; 61 • Bombardement et Prise d'Alger ; 62 • Prise de Constantine ; 63 • Combat de Coudiat-Aty, devant Constantine (1837) ; 64 • Mort de S.A.R. le duc d'Orléans ; 65 • Prise du Fort de St Jean d'Ulloa et de La Vera-Cruz, par la Marine Française ; 66 • Passage du col de Teniah ; 67 • Mort Glorieuse de la Tour d'Auvergne, premier grenadier de France ; 68 • Bataille de l'Isly ; 69 •Tombeau de Napoléon ; 70 • Prise de la Bastille (14 juillet 1789) ; 71 • Combat de Navarin 1827 ; 72 • Soumission d'Abd-El-Kader ; 73 • Entrée des Français à Anvers en 1831 ; 74 • Combat des Polonais contre les Russes ; 75• Sainte Geneviève de Brabant ; 76 • Histoire de Damon et Henriette ; 77 • Les Sept péchés capitaux ; 78 • Le Mauvais Sujet ou Brise-Ménage ; 79 • L'Arbre d'amour ; 80 • Les Malheurs de Pirame et Thisbée ; 81 • Grand convoi de Malborough ; 82 • Donnera-t-on quelque chose à crédit ? Quand le coq chantera, crédit on donnera ; 83 •Crédit est mort, les mauvais payeurs l'ont tué ; 84 • Le Roi Dagobert ; 85 • La chemise du Roi Dagobert ; 86 • Les marionnettes ; 87 • Adelaide et Ferdinand ou les Trois anneaux ; 88 • Délivrance des Âmes du Purgatoire ; 89 • La Sainte Bouteille ; 90 • Les Vérités du jour ou le grand diable d'argent ; 91 • Le Moulin merveilleux ; 92 • L'Alambic miraculeux ; 93 • L'Enfant prodigue ; 94 • Le Juif-Errant ; 95 • Le Célèbre Gargantua ; 96 • Degré des âges. ‎

‎[Life of Napoleon Bonaparte]‎

‎Londres, John Cumberland, John Fairburn, 1823-1825. In-4 oblong de 22 planches (33,5 x 21,5 cm) montées sur onglet, demi toile verte, dos lisse, titre doré frappé en long (relié vers 1880). ‎

‎Album factice réunissant vingt-deux planches coloriées et gravées d'après Carle Vernet par le célèbre illustrateur et caricaturiste britannique George Cruikshank (1792 –1878) :Napoleon Bonaparte on his Celebrated White Charger. London, John Fairburn, November 7, 1823 ; Napoleon Forcing the Passage of the Bridge of Arcola. London, John Fairburn, April 2, 1823 ; Napoleon at the Sanguinary Battle on the Bridge of Lodi. London, John Fairburn, May 10, 1823 ; Napoleon & Augereau, in the Heat of the Tremendous Battle of St. George. London, John Fairburn, June 2, 1823 ; Napoleon & Massena Defeating the Austrian Army, at the Terrible Battle of Roveredo. London, John Fairburn, August 1, 1823 ; Napoleon at the Passage and Battle of the River Tagliamento. London, John Fairburn, September 11, 1823 ; The Attack and Capture of Naples, by the French, After a Most Obstinate Resistance. London, John Cumberland, December 27, 1823 ; Napoleon Defeating the Mamelukes, at the Battle of the Pyramids, Near Cairo. London, John Fairburn, October 7, 1823 ; Napoleon, & Kleber, Defeating the Mamelukes, at the Battle of Mount Thabor. London, John Fairburn, March 1, 1824 ; Napoleon Defeating the Turkish Pacha, at the Battle of Aboukir. London, John Fairburn, September 22, 1824 ; Napoleon and his Army Effecting the Wonderful Passage of the Alps, at Mount St. Bernard. London, John Fairburn, July 1, 1823 ; Napoleon's Decisive Victory Over the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo. London, John Fairburn, August 14, 1824 ; Napoleon, When First Consul, & Madame Josephine, (His First Wife) in the Garden at Malmaison. London, John Fairburn, November 26, 1824 ; Napoleon Receiving the Sword of General Mack, on the Capitulation of Ulm. London, John Cumberland, December 29, 1824 ; Napoleon's Bivouac on the Night Preceding the Memorable Battle of Austerlitz. London, John Cumberland, May 1, 1824 ; Napoleon Receiving from General Rapp the Austrian Standard, Surrendered at Austerlitz. [London, John Fairburn, July 1, 1824 ; Napoleon's Entrance into the City of Berlin. London, John Cumberland, August 27, 1825. Napoleon Defeating the Prussian Army, at the Battle of Eylau. London, John Cumberland, June 6, 1825 ; Napoleon, & the Emperor Alexander, Upon the Raft, on the Niemen, After the Treaty of Tilsit. London, John Cumberland, March 29, 1825 ; Napoleon Witnessing the Conflagration of Moscow., from the palace of the Kremlin. London, John Cumberland, January 20, 1826 ; Napoleon's Arrival at the Tuilleries on his Return from Elba. London, John Cumberland, September 15, 1827 ; Napoleon Terminating his Military Career, at the Memorable Battle of Waterloo. London John Fairburn, October 21, 1825.Tâches et brunissures en marge, traces de pliure, sur quelques planches, 4 planches un peu courte de marges. ‎

‎Mécanique Philosophique, ou Analyse Raisonnée des diverses parties de la Science de l'Équilibre et du Mouvement. - [FROM NAPOLEON'S LIBRARY]‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie de la République, an VIII [i.e. 1800]. 4to. Bound in a lovely full mottled calf binding with fine, gilt ornamental borders to boards, double gilt line-borders to all edges of boards and a richly gilt spine. Spine with gilt red leather title-label and with the gilt monogram of Joséphine and Napoléon - ""JB"" - to lower spine. Neatly rebacked. With a handwritten inscription for Napoleon to title-page ""Au Citoyen Bonaparte/ premier Consul de la République francaise/ De la part du Conseil [de]/ L'Ecole Polythechnique"", with a signature underneath and the stamp of the Ecole Polytechnique. The inscription is slighly cropped at the outer margin. A bit of brownspotting here and there. (4), VII, (1), 477, (3) pp. ‎

‎First edition, original offprint from Journal Polytechnique, Tome III, Cahiers 7 & 8, of Prony's magnum opus ""Mécanique phlilosophique"". The three parts here are all that appeared, as the planned two parts announced on the verso of the extra title-page never appeared. A truly splendid copy from Napoleon's library, with the gilt monogram of him and Joséphine from the library at Malmaison and with a presentation-inscription for Napoléon, which is rare. Books from the library at Malmaison do occasionally appear on the market, although they are rare. They are usually taken to be mainly Joséphine's, as she spent more time there. This, however, is a rare exception. First, we know that Napoléon actually did spend time at Malmaison at the time that he was given the present volume, around 1800, second, it bears an inscription for him, which is rare, determining for a fact that this was one of his books, not Joséphine's. Together with the Tuileries, Malmaison was the French government's headquarters from 1800 to 1802, exactly the time that Napoleon will have been given the present book and incorporated it in his library. Many of the books at the Malmaison library were books on things like gardening that Joséphine cared a great deal about. These were clearly her books. And some of the books, like the present, were clearly those of Napoleon himself. Napoleon was a voracious reader and he spent much time in his library studying his books. He had a personal librarian, always travelled with books, and took pride in constructing portable libraries as well as the rooms for his own actual library. On 9 July 1800, he gave the commission for a study to be built in place of the three small rooms situated on the south corner pavilion of Malmaison. Fontaine removed the partition walls and commissioned the Jacob brothers to make the teak woodwork. On 18 September, Fontaine wrote: “Everything is now in place, and even though the First Consul found that the room looked like a church sacristy, he was nevertheless forced to admit that it would have been difficult to do better in such an unsuitable space”. The paintings of the great ancient and classical authors which surround Apollo and Minerva on the ceiling were probably executed by Lafitte. Napoleon had been an avid reader since he was quite young, and when he began studying at the École Militaire in Paris, he continued to read classics, literature, and philosophy, as he would throughout his life, but he also read more scientifically and strategically aimed books. “His appetite for reading books continued as he rose in power. In 1798, about to depart on the Egyptian campaign, he gave Bourrienne a list of books he wanted in his camp library. These included works in Sciences and Arts (e.g., Treatise on Fortifications), Geography and Travels (e.g., Cook’s Voyages), History (e.g., Thucydides, Frederick II), Poetry (e.g., Ossian, Tasso, Ariosto), Novels (e.g., Voltaire, Héloïse, Werther and 40 volumes of “English novels”), and Politics and Morals (the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, etc.)” (Shannon Selin: Bonaparte the Book Worm), giving us a great insight into his preferences at the time. Prony, with his great Mechanical Philosophy, will have fallen perfectly amongst these great writers, when Napoleon returned to Malmaison, combining politics, science, and philosophy. It is not difficult to see how Napoleon will have been intrigued by mechanical philosophy, which is a form of natural philosophy that compares the universe to a large-scale mechanism. Mechanical philosophy is associated with the scientific revolution of Early Modern Europe, and one of the first expositions of universal mechanism is found in the opening passages of Hobbes’s Leviathan. Prony, in the present work, argues that mechanical principles in the practical arts themselves call for philosophical analysis. Baron Gaspard de Prony (1755-1839) was a French mathematician and engineer. He was educated at the Benedictine College at Toissei in Doubs. From there, he entered the École des Ponts et Chaussés in 1776, where he studied engineering until graduating in 1779. “In 1780 he became an engineer with the École des Ponts et Chaussés and after three years in a number of different regions of France he returned to the École des Ponts et Chaussés in Paris 1783. This was the same year he published his first major work in the Académie des Sciences on the forces on arches. Monge was impressed with this paper and realised that de Prony was someone of great potential. In 1785 de Prony visited England on a project to obtain an accurate measurement of the relative positions of the Greenwich Observatory and the Paris Observatory. Two years later he was promoted to inspector at the École des Ponts et Chaussés. Around this time he was involved with the work on the Louis XVI Bridge in Paris which is now called the Pont de la Concorde. Further promotion in 1790 was followed the next year by his being appointed Engineer-in-Chief of the École des Ponts et Chaussés. This promotion was as a result of the opening of the Louis XVI Bridge. Also around 1791 de Prony was working on geometry with Pierre Girard. Then in 1792, de Prony began a major task of producing logarithmic and trigonometric tables, the Cadastre. With the assistance of Legendre, Carnot and other mathematicians, and between 70 to 80 assistants, the work was undertaken over a period of years, being completed in 1801. […] In 1794 the École Centrale des Travaux Publics was founded by and was directed by Carnot and Monge. It was renamed the École Polytechnique in 1795 and de Prony was certainly one of the main lectures by this time. He is listed among the first teachers at the university […] In 1798 de Prony refused Napoleon's request that he join his army of invasion to Egypt. Fourier, Monge and Malus had agreed to be part of the expeditionary force and Napoleon was angry that de Prony would not come. It did mean that de Prony was to fail to receive the honours he deserved from Napoleon but de Prony's wife was a close friend of Joséphine and this probably saved de Prony from anything worse. In 1798 de Prony achieved his ambition of being appointed director of the École des Ponts et Chaussés. His desire for this post was almost certainly a main reason for his refusing to join Napoleon. As director he began producing a number of important texts on mathematical physics.” (From University of St. Andrews scientific biographies). The present book and its presentation to Napoleon comes from this time, linking the two even closer. After Napoleon was defeated, the reorganization in France included a reorganization of the École Polytechnique, which was closed during 1816. De Prony lost his position as professor there and was not part of the reorganization committee. However, as soon as the school reopened, de Prony was asked to be an examiner so he continued his connection yet only had to work one month per year.‎