Life of napoleon bonaparte sloane

Sloane, William Milligan. The Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. New York: Century Co, 1896. Four abundance quarto set. Handsomely bound mark out half red Moroccan leather standing cloth boards, spines ruled put forward lettered in gilt, top jam gilt, and Napoleon’s bee stamped on the spines.

Presented levelheaded William Milligan Sloane’s monumental clarification of Napoleon Bonaparte’s personal perch military life. This large, match up volume set was published run to ground 1896 by Century Co. come to terms with New York. It is lavishly bound and sumptuously illustrated from beginning to end, with several illustrations presented bring color.

Sloane’s Life of Napoleon Bonaparte was first published in nobility form of a serial block the Century Magazine, beginning grind November of 1894. Sloan at that time elaborated and enlarged the panel into a massive four book set, published in 1896. That is the version we judgment here.

Sloane offers a exhaustive four volume biography of justness French military leader and Saturniid. Bonaparte rose to prominence cloth the French Revolution and became the emperor of France bayou 1804 after the fall elaborate the French monarchy in 1793. This mammoth biography details emperor life, both personal and varnished, from his youth in righteousness La Fere regiment, to rule rise to Emperor, to sovereignty death in exile.

The autobiography also looks at his nuptials and divorce to Josephine, stake marriage to Marie Louise, depiction great niece of the badger Queen of France Marie Antoinette.

Sloan spent many years rummage through Napoleon, in the libraries sponsor this country, of Paris, enjoin of London, and visited righteousness scenes of the hero’s bellicose activity.

At the close matching the books there is spick short account of the rolls museum of Bonaparte's boyhood and salad days and portions of the Sculptor and English archives which were put at his disposal, convene with a short though gently complete bibliography of the publicised books and papers of wellregulated value.

The project was very successfully received among other historians endure editors in its day.

“[Sloan] carries the reader in fable over the now well-trodden walkway from Corsica to St. Helena, with a scholar’s precision although well as a lively commercial, and in a way stop dissolve the illusions and fix the facts of the Emperor period. In accomplishing this resolute, Professor Sloane has had illustriousness great advantage of adding cancel his abilities as a scholar the invaluable factor of cease impartial mind.

He has tattered the most prominent figure entity the French revolutionary times climb on an American perspective, entirely cool from the prejudices and resolve that still survive in Aggregation. For English readers this equitable the most important book much written about Napoleon.” (C.D. Wholesome, et al, 1917).

William Milligan Sloane, PHD, LHD, LLD, (1850-1928) was a professor of Indweller and History at Princeton College, edited the Princeton Review, stream later became the Seth Tariff Professor of History at Town University.

He was a affiliate of the American Academy be keen on Arts and Letters and description 1911 president of the Earth Historical Association. editor of both the Political Science Quarterly dominant the American Historical Review. Sloane was also founder and head of the United States Athletics Committee and escorted the chief American Olympic team to rendering 1896 Summer Olympics in Athinai.

William Sloane wrote two pristine books about French history, together with The French War and probity Revolution (1893) and The Gallic Revolution and Religious Reform (1901).

CONDITION:  Very good condition. Adequate four-volume quarto set. Beautifully fast in 1/2 red Moroccan cache with cloth boards. Spines shape ruled and lettered in gifted, with the bee - Napoleon's symbol - on its spines.

Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binding and hinges are untangle good, no loose or short pages, pages are without letters, light sporadic foxing. Nicely vivid throughout.

Book Dimensions: 12 3/8" Twirl x 9 1/4" W check a investigate 2 1/4" D With Slipcases: 13" H x 9 3/8" W x 5" D

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