Précis historique du passage et séjour à Caen de Leurs Majestés Impériales Napoléon III & l'Impératrice Eugénie les 3 et 4 août 1858. Caen, Hardel, 1858. In-8 (23,7 x 15,3 cm), midnight blue chagrin, framed with gilt fillets and wide gilt decoration with a plaque on the corners showing rosebushes on a starry background and the imperial arms of the town of Caen gilt on the boards, spine with ribbed bands decorated with fleurons in the boxes, gilt edges (Engel). Interesting account by a Caen historian and librarian of the imperial couple's stay in Caen during a tour of Normandy and Brittany. A copy in a present binding, probably given to the couple on this occasion. Binding slightly rubbed, beginning of a split at one of the spine ends, blackened flyleaves and endpapers, three small passages of text marked in red pencil. Provenance - Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie (ex. of present?). - Osenat sale, Christopher Forbes Collection, 6 March 2016, lot no. 30.