SEGUR PHILIPPE DE (1780-1873) Histoire et mémoires. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, fils et Cie, 1873. 7 vols. in-8 (21.7x13.4 cm). Vol. 1 (2 ff.), 529 pp., Vol. 2. (2 ff.), 563 pp., V. 3. (2 ff.), 477 pp., V. 4. (2 ff.), 413 pp., V. 5. (2 ff.), 464 pp., V. 6. (2 ff.), 480 pp., V. 7. (2 ff.), 549, 14 pp. Contemporary red half-leather binding, ribbed spine, marbled edges. The portrait and facsimile are missing. Some wear to the spine. Rare foxing. A rare edition of these memoirs, published in the same year as the death of their author, the general and historian Philippe de Ségur (1780-1873). In them, he presents both the history of Napoleon and his own life. Copy belonging to Viscount Beugnot, who wrote on the first blank page of the last volume passages relating to members of his family, namely his father, a Peer of France, his grandfather the Count of Saint Aignan, his maternal great-uncle the Duke of Vicence, Count Daru, his wife’s grandfather, etc.