[Esprit Victor Élisabeth Boniface CASTELLANE] Esprit Victor Elisabeth Boniface, Maréchal de CASTELLANE
Journal du Maréchal de Castellane 1804-1862[Journal of Marshal Castellane, 1804–1862]
Plon|Paris 1895-1897|13.7 x 22.2 cm|5 volumes reliés
First edition illustrated with 5 plates hors texte (3 portraits and 2 views) and 1 facsimile (cf. Tailliart 184).
Contemporary bindings in fawn half calf, smooth spines gilt with fillets, red shagreen title labels, black shagreen volume labels, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bindings of the period.
Waterstaining at the end of volumes I and III.
The section relating to Algeria appears in vol. III, chap. V, pp. 127 to 164.
The author stayed in Bône as a divisional officer from December 1837 to 9 February 1838.
These few pages abound in characteristic details concerning the indiscipline of the army, its poor discipline and appearance, the
€650