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NAPOLEON'S MAGNIFICENT ARABIAN STALLIONVERY EARLY ENGELMANN LITHOGRAPHLéon de Chanlaire. Histoire d'un cheval de Napoléon, écrite sous sadictée par un cultivateur français, qui l'a recueilli dans savieillesse ... par Léon de Chanlaire. Paris : Chez les principauxlibraire, 1826. 8vo. 63 pp. with lithographic plate. In originalwraps, with minor losses and toning; internally some light foxingthroughout, frontis. detached form textblock but present. Very rarein commerce with no copies in RBH database.A highly unusual work of the history of Vizir, Napoleon Bonaparte'sgrey Arabian stallion that accompanied the deposed emperor to Elba.The famed horse was the gift of the Ottoman Sultan, Selim III, toNapoleon Bonaparte in 1802. The stallion's twilight years were spentin the care of Leon de Chanlaire, an officer of the imperial stables,and the author of the present work, while Napoleon was banished tothe British crown colony of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic.Chanlaire had Le Vizir stuffed… Read More

Astronomy & navigation. A working manuscript, end of 19th C. Folio (28 x 22 cm), half leather, buckram boards,435 pages, Cours Hydrographie, Navigation propremente 1888.89, Long cours, Cyclonomie. Illustrated throughout.