LA GARDE-CHAMBONAS, Auguste de. Biographical sketch on Queen - Lot 178

LA GARDE-CHAMBONAS, Auguste de. Biographical sketch on Queen Hortense. A visit to Augsburg - Letters. Published in Paris by Heugel, s.d. [1853]. In quarto / In-4 oblong format. Ivory board, smooth mute spine, filleted border, central decoration featuring the arms of Queen Hortense and gilt corner bees on the first cover. 3 ff.n.ch., 23 pages, 14 plates, including a chromolithographed title-frontispiece, a lithographed portrait, 7 floral compositions also chromolithographed and 6 lithographs. Binding generally rubbed, cardboard missing from headpieces, some light foxing and spotting. Beautifully illustrated album with chromolithographs by Léon Noel, F. Sorrieu and Lemercier, focusing on the life of Queen Hortense, Queen Consort of Holland and mother of Emperor Napoleon III. A charming album, despite its worn binding.