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a black and white drawing of a map of a townthe front cover of a book with a picture of a man in a hatan old map of a mountain range in the middle of the countryan old map of the island of st john in the middle of the atlantica lot of books that are stacked together on a tableseveral old books are lined up on a shelf in a row
Maître Stéphane PRENVEILLE

129 - [MILITARIA] - [COLLECTIVE WORK] - Victories, conquests, disa…
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[MILITARIA] - [COLLECTIVE WORK] - Victories, conquests, disasters, setbacks and civil wars of the French from 1792 to 1815, by a Society of military men and men of letters - Paris; C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1817–1821 – 27 volumes, In-8° – A few scattered foxing spots, 1 map torn at the fold but complete in volume XVII – 171 plans, maps (by Tardieu), and engravings, very often fold-outs, 16 plates of facsimiles of handwriting (not collated) – Black half-basane binding (scuff marks on the joints, 2 reinforced with black adhesive tape) – Smooth spines, decorated, titled and numbered in gold (some scuffing on the leather, 1 cap worn down) - Marbled edges - An old handwritten bookplate on the title pages - A fairly good copy of this impressive inventory in its first edition, published in instalments between 1817 and 1821. A military monument erected to the glory of France through public subscription. Bauvais, who was in charge of the publication, commissioned memoirs from numerous military officers to reconstruct, through eyewitness accounts, the precise history of the battles from Year I of the Republic (1792) up to 1815. Volumes I to XXIV recount the history of various French military events, whilst volumes XXV to XXVI contain a list of errata and a collection of French military biographies known as the ‘Tables du temple de la Gloire’. The volume ‘Couronne poétique’ (Volume XXVII, the final volume) contains songs and poems dedicated to the Fatherland and to courage.
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