Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne

by Rocca, M. de. [Albert Jean Michel Rocca]

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Book description: Londres, John Murray, 1815. Royal octavo. Pp. 426. Appendix. Hardcover, handsomely bound in half linen over boards. Untrimmed wide-margined copy. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy. - - The first London edition. A year earlier, the Paris edition was published by Gide (with 384 pages). Albert Jean Michel Rocca (1788-1818) was a French Hussar Officer in the Legion of Honour. His memoire of the war between the French and Spanish in the Peninsula is considered a classic. Contains the 'Appendix Contenant des Notes justificatives et diverses Lettrese ou Extraits de Lettres, relatives aux Affaires d'Espagne et de Portugal' (pages 383-426). From the library of J. W. Six with his bookplate to first paste-down. Scarce. OCLC lists just 8 copies of this edition worldwide, compared with 23 copies of the Paris edition. .

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