General Works. Bramsen, L. Médaillier Napoléon le Grand ou description des médailles, clichés, repoussés et médailles, décorations relatives aux affaires de la France pendant le Consulat et l’Empire. Paris & Copenhague; Alphonse Picard & Fils & Gyldenalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1904–1913. Complete in three parts. 4to., pp. titles printed in red and black, x, 150, (2), xxx; iv, 132, (2), xxviii, (2); (2), 111, (1), xxix, (1), 18, (2). Bound into a single volume in half morocco and cloth boards, the spine gilt. Worn and rubbed, the spine broken and the hinges repaired with tape but internally clean and worthy of rebinding. The preferred, first edition of this classic and still essential reference, illustrating 2,330 Napoleonic medals, many from the author’s own collection. One of only 400 sets printed, sought after, seldom offered and very scarce thus. (3)
Clain-Stefanelli 14507*, “The best reference on Napoleonic medals.” Grierson p. 262. Modesti 308.