Bonaparte, Lucien: RÉVOLUTION DE BRUMAIRE. RELATION DES PRINCIPAUX EVENEMENTS DES JOURNEES DES 18 ET 19 BRUMAIRE. DEUXIEME EDITION. Paris, 1846, Charpentier.

1 vol., in 8°, cm 23x15, p. [4], 296. Later half-leather binding with the editorial paperback preserved, spine with titles embossed in gold.
Extremely rare second edition (the first is from 1845) of the historical narratives on the coup d'état with which Napoleon overthrew the Directory and seized power in France. A copy of noble provenance, with a long and heartfelt autograph dedication by Giovanni Battista dei principi Lancellotti to the noblewoman Luciana Bonaparte Valentini in Faina, dated January 1879.