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First edition, one of numbered copies on alfa paper for each copy, reserved to the veterans of the France Libre and members of Resistants associations.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Charles De Gaulle to Raymond Ducrocq : "en souvenir de la grande épreuve..."
Small tears without lack in the margin of a cover.
A nice copy with a moving autograph inscription signed.
The rare first edition.
Contemporary marbled brown paper boards. Blue morocco decorated title- and volume-labels. A little rubbing to head-pieces, joints and corners. Faint scattered spotting, mostly to margins. A very good copy.
In 1835, Washington Irving met a soldier of French origin who had come back after a three-year expedition to the West, beyond the Rocky Mountains. With the help of their conversations and his manuscript of numerous notes, the author wrote this account of the voyage. The first chapters present the state of the American trading companies and t