The Court of Napoleon or Society Under the First Empire with Portraits of its Beauties Wits and Heroines from Authenic Originals.

By Frank B. Goodrich . Published by Derby and Jackson, New York, 1857. First Edition, first issue.  Top quality Full Morocco with 5 raised bands. Gilded ornamental, embossed  front and back covers and fore edges, 16 beautiful full page color engravings of female members of the Court. Some foxing on 2 front end papers and on the borders of the tissue protected portraits, half inch tears at front cover-spine at both both bottom and top spine otherwise book is in Fine condition. Provenance: A historical Louisiana plantation.