[MEMOIRS OF EMPIRE]. Set of memoirs of the Empire : - BOURRIENNE (Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de). Memoirs... on Napoleon, the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire and the Restoration. Paris : Ladvocat, 1829. - 10 volumes in-8, dark blue half-chagrin, ribbed spine, speckled head, untrimmed, cover preserved (Wendling). First edition of these important memoirs, constantly used by Napoleon enthusiasts and historians. Copy in a 20th century binding, signed Wendling. Minor cracking to some hinges. Restorations to some covers. Some leaves rebacked in volume 2. Some foxing and spotting in places. The covers are marked "second edition". - BOURRIENNE (Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de)]. Bourrienne et ses erreurs volontaires et involontaires, ou Observations sur ses Mémoires. Paris : Charles Heideloff, Urbain Canel, 1830. - 2 volumes in-8, dark blue half-chagrin, ribbed spine, speckled head, untrimmed, cover preserved (Wendling). First edition of this refutation of Bourrienne's memoirs, published after Barbier by Buloz. The "Dictionnaire des lettres françaises" attributes it to the Viscount d'Aure. Copy bearing the mention of " Second edition " on the titles. Some foxing. - CAPEFIGUE. Europe during the Consulate and the Empire of Napoleon. Paris : Pitois-Levrault et Ce, 1840. - 10 volumes in-8, eggplant half-calf, smooth spine decorated, speckled edges (period binding). First edition. Restoration to the spine of the first volume. Some foxing. - GOUVION SAINT-CYR (Laurent de). Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire militaire sous le Directoire, le Consulat et l'Empire. Paris : Anselin, Picquet, 1831. - 4 volumes in-8, dark blue half-maroquin, smooth spine decorated (period binding). First edition illustrated with a portrait of the author on chine pasted on the frontispiece of the first volume, lithographed after a painting by Horace Vernet, two facsimiles of autographs outside the text, of the author and Desaix, as well as nine maps outside the text. There are also several tables at the end of the first three volumes, some of them folding. Without the atlas. A good copy in contemporary binding. Rubbing from use to the headpieces, some corners dulled. Light foxing and spotting. - SAVARY (Anne-Jean-Marie-René, duke of Rovigo). Memoirs of the duke of Rovigo, to serve as a history of the emperor Napoleon. Paris : A. Bossange, Mame et Delaunay-Vallée, 1828. - 8 volumes in-8, half havana calf, smooth spine decorated, marbled edges (period binding). First edition of these "important memoirs" whose repercussion was considerable because of the personality of the author, aide-de-camp of the First Consul, closely involved in the execution of the Duc d'Enghien, ambassador to the Tsar after Tilsit, successor of Fouché at the Ministry of the General Police in 1810. The story stops in 1815" (Tulard, 693). A good copy in contemporary binding. Some wear and tear, tear on the second cover of volume 3. Some foxing. Jointly bound in uniform binding: - SÉVELINGES (Charles-Louis de). The Duke of Rovigo in miniature, or critical abridgment of his memoirs. Paris : J.-G. Dentu, 1828. - In-8, half havana calf, smooth spine decorated, marbled edges (period binding). First edition of this critical study of the Mémoires duc de Rovigo. Splits at the hinges.