Beschrijving
Rotterdam, H. Nijgh, 1860-1861, 5 volumes, all spines missing, original illustrated boards, bindings loose, ex library copy (stamps dating from 1907), otherwise complete. The secret reminiscences from 1836 to 1852 of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, king and later emperor of France. According to the introduction, these personal papers were lost after the coup in 1851 and turned up later to be translated in German (and later in this edition in Dutch) and published.