BONAPARTE, Napoleon. - Laurence STERNE. La Vie et Les Opinions de Tristram Shandy, Traduites de l'Anglois de Stern, Par M. Frénais. London [Paris: Hubert Martin Cazin],1784-1785. 3 vols. (of 4). Engraved portrait frontispiece, half-titles. (Toning, browning to half-titles, damp-staining to frontispiece, note in manuscript hand to half-title of volume 1.) Contemporary panelled calf, g.e. (rubbing to extremities, lacking lettering pieces). Note: on the half-title of volume 1 is a note in a mid-19th century hand: 'this book was the property of Buonaparte and was [sic] in the sale of his library brought from St. Helena [sic]'. The title-pages bear the circular black stamp used by Napoleon's librarian, Mameluke Ali. When Napoleon died in 1821, there were 3,500 books in his library at Longwood House, St. Helena. As in this example, Mameluke's stamp is rarely clear. Provenance: M. Stanger (name inscribed verso the front-free endpaper); Napoleon Bonaparte (stamps to title-pages) (3).