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Excerpt from Rare and Valuable Books, Incunabula, Woodcutbooks, Important Library-Works This catalogue, comprising a selection from the acquisitions we made within the last few months, contains a number of valuable books and Library sets very rarely found for sale. We are thus in a position to offer an opportunity, such as will seldom occur again, to any library or collector desirous to acquire fine copies, solidly bound, of the most important works on the Fine Arts, Bibliography, History and Geography. We have been enabled to present this unusual selection chiefly by two fortunate circumstances, the disposal of a number of Duplicates of the Imperial Library in Vienna and the sale of the famous old Inzaghi-Library, both secured by our firm. The renowned Vienna Imperial Library having been taken over by the Austrian Republic together with some other special libraries formed by members of the former Imperial Family, has exchanged a number of duplicates resulting from this combination against other works not possessed so far by that institute. The duplicates dispensed with come mostly from the former private collection of the Emperor Francis I. (1792 1835) and thus we find in this catalogue the marvellous copy of Napoleons great work on Egypt (No. 386) with coloured plates on papier velin, which we reproduce as a frontispice of this catalogue. This copy must have been presented to Francis I., who was the father of Marie Louise and thus Napoleon's father-in-law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.