François Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans JOINVILLE

 

First edition illustrated with a large folding map of Algeria outside the text, together with a portrait frontispiece.

Gay 938: "le fait capital du volume est la prise de Constantine."

Pleasing copy.

Edition published anonymously and issued the same year as the first edition.
Half red calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Occasional light foxing.

First edition.
About the 'Mediterranean Squadron', the Chinese question, steam navy in continental wars, the state of the navy in France and the United States in 1865...
Second volume complete with its map at rear.
Front board of first volume reattached, lack to spine affecting the latter, otherwise handsome copies.
Rare.