Empire - Spanish Campaign FOY (Maximilien... - Lot 259 - Briscadieu

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Empire - Spanish Campaign FOY (Maximilien... - Lot 259 - Briscadieu
Empire - Spanish Campaign FOY (Maximilien Sébastien), general History of the Peninsular War under Napoleon, preceded by a political and military picture of the belligerent powers. Paris, Baudouin frères, 1827. 4 volumes in-8, containing 8 facsimiles and a folding table in fine. Minor spotting in places. Without the atlas. ½ calf bronze of the period, gilt fillets and green title and endpapers, some bites slightly cracked at the entries, accident on the spine in volume 4, marbled edges. Enclosed : Discourses du général Foy, précédés d'une notice biographique par M. P. F. Tissot ; d'un éloge par M. Étienne, et d'un essai sur l'éloquence politique en France, par M. Jay.Paris, Moutardier, 1826. 2 volumes in-8, portrait frontispiece. ½ black basane, smooth spines decorated with long romantic irons. The work deals with the Napoleonic campaigns in Portugal and Spain in which the author took part. Well documented.
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