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OGER-BLANCHET
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MOREAU DE BRASEY, Jean-Nicole] - Mémoires politiques, amusan…
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724
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MOREAU DE BRASEY, Jean-Nicole] - Mémoires politiques, amusan…
See original version (French)
Estimate €250
Voluntary lot
Description
MOREAU DE BRASEY, Jean-Nicole] - Mémoires politiques, amusans et satiriques. A Véritopolis, chez Jean disant Vrai, (Amsterdam, Roger), 1716. 3 volumes in one vol. in-12, portrait, 3 frontispieces, 11 h. t. plates including 2 fold-outs (battle of Pruth), ivory vellum of the ep.
GAY III, 174. First edition dedicated to Marshal de Villars. At the beginning of his memoirs, Moreau de Brasey describes Peter the Great's campaign at Pruth in 1711 against the Turks, which ended in a Russian defeat. The brigadier was demobilised without pay. ''This collection contains verse stories, epigrams, songs, a few comedies by Dominique Biancollelli, and a report on the wars that Czar Pierres I undertook against Turkey and King Charles XII of Sweden. Also contains some rather light verse pieces, including the following titles: Les Dix doigts - Métamorphose du cul d'Iris en astre - La Coquette châtiée - Le Penchant naturel, etc.'' (Gay).
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