HORTENSE, Reine] - Album artistique de la Reine Hortense - U - Lot 627

HORTENSE, Reine] - Album artistique de la Reine Hortense - Une visite à Augsbourg - Esquisse biographique - Lettres, dessins et musique. paris, Heugel, (1853). In-4 oblong, dedication to Napoleon III in gilt letters, col. and gilt title, portrait of the queen lithographed by Léon Noël, facsimile, 23 pp. 24 ff. music, 7 titles ornamented in color, 6 lithog. in monochrome after drawings by Queen Hortense, some yellowing and foxing, pink ed. boards, gilt coat of arms on first board, bees on corners, slightly rubbed, ms. title on spine, small tear with loss on second board. With the arms of Queen Hortense Album published in honor of Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), Queen of Holland, Duchess of Saint-Leu, daughter of Joséphine Taschert de la Pagerie, and mother of Napoleon III. The text consists of : Une visite à Augsbourg par le comte de La Garde (en 1819) - Esquisse biographique sur la reine Hortense par Hippolyte Prévost - Huit lettres de la reine Hortense dont une en fac-similé. (Following:) Notated music of twelve romances in a gilded frame, illustrated with 6 lithographs by F. Sorrieu after drawings by the queen.