[MILITARIA - BERTHIER (ALEXANDRE)]. Relation de la bataille de Marengo, gagnée le 25 prairial an 8, par Napoléon Bonaparte, Premier Consul, commandant en personne l'armée française de réserve, sur les Autrichiens, aux ordres du Lieutenant Général Mélas; rédigée par le Général Alex. Berthier [...] commander under the immediate orders of the First Consul. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Impériale, an 1806. In-4°, calf, broad framing of gilt filets and serrated roulettes decorating the covers, coat of arms in the centre, smooth spine decorated with various emblems, gilt edges (period binding). A title-frontispiece by VERNET, a large folded table bound in fine, five engraved and folded double maps and a double view. Some brown spots. COPY WITH THE IMPERIAL COAT OF ARMS. From the library of Antoine d'Espérandieu (1846), with bookplate.