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The Bonapartes. / David Stacton.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DC216 .S8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stacton, David, 1925-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bonaparte family.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, [1966]
- Notes:
- Title page illustrated with wreath and bees.
- "First Printing."
- Includes index.
- Facsimiles of Bonaparte signatures on endpapers.
- "This is a book not about Napoléon, but about his family and what became of it, after 1814. Today, counting Swedish, Austrian, Italian, French, Polish, Danish, German, Spanish, English, and Dutch descendants, there are over 280 members of the family extant, but of the lot there are only two Bonaparte Males ... For the family bred itself out, by producing a predominance of daughters."--Preface.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 711867
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