Maximilien FOY GÉNÉRAL ET COMTE
Histoire de la guerre de la péninsule sous Napoléon. Précédée d'un tableau politique et militaire des puissances belligérantes
Baudouin frères|Paris 1827|12.50 x 21 cm|4 volumes reliés
First edition published posthumously by the author's widow, Countess Foy.
Half-shagreen bindings in green, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments, small lack to headcap of first volume, marbled paper boards with some surface abrasions, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, speckled edges.
The atlas, as is often the case, is lacking from our copy.
Scattered foxing, printed library stamps on title pages.
Work complete with its 8 folding facsimiles but lacking the author's portrait.
Autograph inscription signed by Countess Foy to the politician, diplomat and historian Count de Ségur.
Half-shagreen bindings in green, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments, small lack to headcap of first volume, marbled paper boards with some surface abrasions, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, speckled edges.
The atlas, as is often the case, is lacking from our copy.
Scattered foxing, printed library stamps on title pages.
Work complete with its 8 folding facsimiles but lacking the author's portrait.
Autograph inscription signed by Countess Foy to the politician, diplomat and historian Count de Ségur.
€450