Uncommon first edition, issued anonymously: as early as 1817 the second edition bears the author's name (cf. Davois III, 117. Tulard 1194.)
Contemporary half blond sheepskin binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, joints split and repaired, blue paper-covered boards with a few scuffs, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
An interesting account of the Russian campaign, which the author, the Vicomte de Puybusque or Puibusque (1792-1841), experienced as a military intendant: it abounds in little-known details concerning the Grande Armée and the Imperial Guard.
Bound at the end is Thomas Lindley’s: "Voyage au Brésil ; où l'on trouve la description du pays, de ses productions, de ses habitans, et de la ville et des provinces de San-Salvadore et Porto-Seguro. Avec une table correcte des latitudes et longitudes des ports de la côte du Brésil, ainsi qu'un tableau de change, etc. Traduit de l'anglais par François Soulès" published in Paris by Léopold Collin in 1806 (xiv-216 pp. Borba de Moraes I, 485. Rodrigues 416)
Rare first edition of the French translation.
The English merchant Thomas Lindley chartered a cargo vessel and travelled to Brazil to sell his own goods, but was arrested and convicted of smuggling.
He spent a year in Brazilian prisons.