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ARTCURIAL - Toulouse Jean Louis Vedovato - Me Jean-Louis Vedovato
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[FIRST EMPIRE]. FOY (General). HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE IBE…
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[FIRST EMPIRE]. FOY (General). HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE IBE…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[FIRST EMPIRE]. FOY (General). HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA UNDER NAPOLEON, preceded by a Political and Military Survey of the Belligerent Powers. Paris: Baudouin, 1827. Four volumes in-8, bound in Empire green Russian leather, covers decorated with a frame of gilded garland, plain spine entirely decorated with broad gilded scrolls, title and volume number labels in red leather, edges and caps edged with gold thread, gilded edges (contemporary binding). Waterstains, sometimes heavy. FIRST EDITION of these posthumous memoirs, divided into nine books, published by General Foy’s widow. 7/8 FACSIMILES of handwritten letters printed on laid paper and a large fold-out CHART entitled ‘State of the French armies on the Spanish Peninsula as at 1 January 1808’. ’ MISSING is the rare atlas comprising a portrait of the author and six fold-out maps. This history recounts the war which, from 1807 to 1814, pitted Napoleon’s army against those of Spain, Portugal and England. Tulard considers that General Foy ‘wrote a remarkable history of the Spanish War’ and adds that ‘a courageous soldier, he was one of Napoleon’s finest divisional commanders’. SUPERB DECORATED BINDING of the period. ¶ Tulard, *Dictionnaire Napoléon*, p. 756.
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