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Histoire de l'expédition de Russie [2v]

Chambray, Georges de, Marquis

Paris: Chez Pillet Ainé et Chez Anselin et Pochard, 1823.

Illustrated by Illustrated. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #15954

Lacks frontispiece - vue du passage du Niemen, 1" chip to spine head of volume one, gutter started at volume one title page, light edgewear, 1" peel to marbled paper board of volume one, light rub, random foxing, owner's bookplate, slip with author's name on back of front free endpapers, author's name written on title pages, stamp on half-title pages, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcovers. ; French language. Quarter leather with gilt spine lettering and ruling, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Owner's label of Jean-Joseph-Prix Deschamp, an Officer de la Legion d’honneur who also was on the Russia invasion. Riveting account of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign by artillery officer and historian, the Marquis de Chambray. ; 444, Atlas 5; 460, 4ad, 4 pl pages.

Price: $1,499.95