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26 - [Royal gift copy – Louis XVI] DUGUAY-TROUIN (René).
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[Royal gift copy – Louis XVI] DUGUAY-TROUIN (René). A Collection of Duguay-Trouin’s Battles. Paris: published by Sieur Le Gouaz, undated (c. 1774). A large folio volume, in marbled sheepskin, bearing on the front cover, stamped in gold lettering, the inscription: ‘Presented by the King to Mr Le Marié d’Aubigny’, with a plain, richly decorated spine. Scuffing and wear; slight water stain on the lower margin of 3 folios of text. A fully engraved first edition devoted to the naval campaigns of René Duguay-Trouin (1673–1736), designed, according to the preface, to make the Memoirs of the famous privateer ‘more useful to young sailors’. The illustrations include an engraved half-title page, a portrait of Duguay-Trouin, an engraved frontispiece and 15 numbered plates, including a double-page general map showing the locations of battles and encounters with the enemy, 9 sheets bringing together 18 scenes of naval battles, and the large double-page plate depicting the capture of Rio de Janeiro in 1711. This is followed by 12 pages of text, entirely engraved, adorned with a header and three technical illustrations, and two pages of ‘Explanation of the nautical terms used in this book’. The illustrations were drawn by Nicolas-Marie Ozanne (1728–1811) and engraved between 1770 and 1773 by his sister Jeanne-Françoise Ozanne and his brother-in-law Yves-Marie Le Gouaz; the maps were engraved by Drouet. A PRECIOUS COPY PRESENTED BY THE KING, specially bound for the Marié d’Aubigny, bearing on the front cover the gilded inscription: ‘PRESENTED BY THE KING TO MR LE MARIÉ D’AUBIGNY’. An old handwritten inscription on the endpaper reads: ‘This book was presented in 1792 by His Majesty Louis XVI to Mr Jean Baptiste Jérôme Le Marié d’Aubigny, Advocate General of the Paris Chamber of Accounts.’
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