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The New Emperor Napoleon Tours His Kingdom, Paying Homage to Charlemagne and Claiming his Mantle

The New Emperor Napoleon Tours His Kingdom, Paying Homage to Charlemagne and Claiming his Mantle by Napoleon Bonaparte

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Title
The New Emperor Napoleon Tours His Kingdom, Paying Homage to Charlemagne and Claiming his Mantle
Author
Napoleon Bonaparte
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
22/08/1804. This is earliest document we found having reached the market bearing the title ""Napoleon I"", Emperor of the French on it; it was signed just weeks after he gave himself the title and months before his coronation in front of the Pope. Reference for research, publication, and institutions: Raab B13.105The Corsican-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe, and Napoleon returned home from his Egyptian campaign to take over the reigns of the French government and save his nation from collapse. After becoming first consul in February 1800, he reorganized his armies and defeated Austria. In 1802, he established the Napoleonic Code, a new system of French law, and in 1804 he established the French empire.On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. Napoleon even paid for Pope Pius VII, who had signed the Concordat of Rome, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution, to travel to France for the occasion, believing that his presence would imbue the event with a solemn, religious feeling. Pius agreed to come, hoping to win Napoleon's goodwill towards Rome and the Papal States.As a perfect reflection of the time in which he lived, Napoleon was “obsessed with history."" He would draw references, symbols and examples from it to justify his position and his politics and thus give his reign its place in the history of France, from the Gauls right up to his immediate predecessors, including the Bourbons. Of all the references wielded by the French Emperor, Charlemagne is, if not one of the most important, then at least one of the most consistent. During the same period, the Russian Ambassador, Markov, wrote to his government saying that in his opinion Bonaparte would soon take the title of “Emperor of the Gauls ”, whilst the Prussian, Lucchesini, sent word to Berlin that the Consul wanted to “be a second Charlemagne ” but “enlightened by the geniuses of our century ”, adding, “No-one doubts he has a plan; it is just the timing that has yet to be decided."" On becoming emperor, Napoleon thought it time to visit his “predecessor ”. This pilgrimage had become virtually a tradition with the kings of France, then the Germanic emperors. So he went to Aix-la-Chapelle to tie his historical legitimacy with the memory of Charlemagne – as Thiers put it, the old emperor had been “awakened by Napoleon with ill-disguised intent ”.On July 18, the new Emperor began a great inspection tour, from Boulogne to Treves, through Calais, Dunkirk, Ostend, Arras, Mons, Aachen, Cologne and Mainz. It was to end in Aix and cement his position of Emperor. He would return from this and receive the crown.Autograph document signed, with a very early example of his new title, the head reading ""To his Majesty, the Emperor of the French, Napoleon I,"" August 22, 1804, Ostend, granting a senior civil position to a resident of Ostend on his great tour by endorsing the request, ""Agreed. Returned to the Ministry of Finance, Ostend, 6 Thermidor, in the 12th [August 22, 1804].” The approval its in response to an appeal from citizen Michel Jean Pruyssenaere, resident of Ostende, to serve as collector of that area.We have found just one other document of Napoleon during this grand tour having reached the public market, and that was part of the great Sang Collection. That did not have his new letterhead as Emperor. This must be one of the earliest with his ""Napoleon I"" letterhead.
First Edition of FDR’s Committee for Civil Service Improvement Report, Signed by Three Supreme Court Justices

First Edition of FDR’s Committee for Civil Service Improvement Report, Signed by Three Supreme Court Justices by FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT SUPREME COURT

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First Edition of FDR’s Committee for Civil Service Improvement Report, Signed by Three Supreme Court Justices
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT SUPREME COURT
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Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
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Fine
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[Washington, D.C.], 1941. Hardcover. Fine. Signed Book. Report of President's Committee on Civil Service Improvement. [Washington, D.C.], This presentation copy to William H. McReynolds, the Liaison Officer for Personnel Management, is signed by all the committee members, including the chairman, Justice Stanley Reed, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Justice Frank Murphy, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Leonard D. White, General Robert E. Wood, and Cooper Union President Gano Dunn. Historical BackgroundOn June 24, 1938, President Roosevelt extended the Civil Service Act of 1883 to approximately 24,000 higher-level positions. While most positions were quickly reorganized within the Civil Service, roughly 5,000 positions required a more complex transition. Officially classified as professional, scientific, or otherwise specially-skilled jobs, most were attorney positions. To facilitate the attorneys' smooth shift into the Civil Service, Roosevelt issued a second order at the beginning of 1939 that postponed the application of the earlier order and created a special committee to ""make a comprehensive study of methods of recruiting, testing, selecting, promoting, transferring, removing, and reinstating personnel."" The Committee on Civil Service Improvement, after several intensive meetings, produced this report, which offered extensive recommendations for integrating legal, engineering, architectural, natural science, administration, and social science positions into the Civil Service.Committee members included Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, and Frank Murphy; Attorney General (and future Justice) Robert H. Jackson; the President's Administrative Assistant and Liaison Officer for Personnel Management William H. McReynolds; public administration expert Leonard D. White; Sears, Roebuck executive and U.S. General Robert E. Wood; and electrical engineer and Cooper Union President Gano Dunn. All eight committee members approved the report by signing on a sheet, bound in after the free front endpapers.The Library of Congress has a photograph of the members of this committee, taken as they began open hearings at the Supreme Court Building on November 1, 1939. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009014264/ConditionNear Fine. Minor rubbing to corners. Presentation copy in contemporary burgundy morocco gilt.
Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years among the Savages of Nootka Sound.

Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years among the Savages of Nootka Sound. by [Alsop, Richard].

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Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years among the Savages of Nootka Sound.
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[Alsop, Richard].
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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12mo, publisher's cloth backed boards, frontispiece, illustrated, 166 pp. Binding worn and soiled, and what appears as remnant label on spine, early owner signature and inscription on endpapers, normal aging and some browning; otherwise very good, and a fairly tight copy. The present work appears to be a reworking of a journal published by Jewitt in Boston in 1807. At least two editions were published of this book in 1815, one in Connecticut and the present volume, which was published in New York. Despite the fact that this work was published in numerous editions, Alsop felt he didn't really do Jewitt any real good, because he seemed to be reduced to a vagabond like existence marching around the country hawking his book (Field). According to Streeter Jewitt was the first white man to live with the Indians in Nootka Sound, and the work presents an excellent account of his adventures. Considered a very accurate portrayal of the tribes in this area, with much detailed information about their daily lives. Work contains a list of some words in the Nootkian language. Ayer 153. Field 776. Howes A189. Streeter 3663. Sabin 36123.

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