[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED]. BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), binders. [NAPOLEON I]. LAS CASES, MARIN JOSEPH EMMANUEL AUGUSTE DIEUDONNE DE, Marquis de la Caussade. Memorial de Sainte Hélène. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. Boston: Wells and Lilly 1823. 8 parts in 4 vols., 8vo, 235 x 152 x 43mm. (9 1/4 x 6 x 1 3/4in.), A COSWAY STYLE BINDING, scarlet crushed levant morocco, each cover with double gilt fillet border around an inner panel border of various small ornaments incorporating corner decorations of the Barberini bee, the wreathed N (twice) and the imperial eagle, UPPER COVERS EACH SET WITH AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE (Napoleon as an officer of artillery, Josephine, Las Cases and Napoleon in 1815), each 81 x 62mm. (3 3/16 x 2 7/16in.); spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a decorative panel with one of the three symbols in the rest; board edges gilt dotted, turn-ins gilt ruled with triple gilt fillet and a broken rule, doublures and free endpages of crimson watered silk, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed by the binders on each upper turn-in, cloth slipcase, apparently lacks a title-page to part 6 in vol. 3. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with approximately 150 portraits, plates, folding maps and other illustrations, many handcolored. (duPont) (4)