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[London : s.n.], MDCCLIX. [1759]. 12mo. Soft Covers with Marbled Paper. 83 pp. Letterpress on Laid Paper. Very Good, bowed. En Francais. Rebound by artisan bookbinder Sasha Mosalov.
Letter Signed, as Secretary of State for War, ordering payments to be made to the officer and men wounded by the bursting of a cannon by BELLE-ISLE, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de
by BELLE-ISLE, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de
Letter Signed, as Secretary of State for War, ordering payments to be made to the officer and men wounded by the bursting of a cannon
by BELLE-ISLE, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de
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12 September 1759. In French. 1 page 8 x 6½ inches, in good condition. Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet de Belle-Isle (1684-1761), Marshal of France, a major figure in the War of the Austrian Succession. At the head of 40,000 French troops he crossed the Rhine in August 1741 to take control of Upper Austria. But later Belle-Isle found himself besieged in Prague, surrounded by an army of 60,000 Austrians. He managed to extricate his army of 15,000 men by leading them for ten days across treacherous defiles of ice and snow; 1200 died on the march from cold, and another 500 later from the effects of this march. King Louis XV made him Secretary of State for War in 1758, a position Belle-Isle would hold until his death in 1761.
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Lettres de M. le Marechal duc de Belleisle, a M. le Marechal de Contades. : Trouvees parmi les papiers de Monsieur de Contades apres la bataille de Minden.
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Lettres de Mr. le marechal Duc de Belleisle, a Mr. le Marechal de Contades. Avec de Extraitsde quelques-unes de celles du Marechal de Contades au Marechal Duc de Bellisle en 1758. Trouvees parmi le papiers de Monsieur de Contades apres la Bataille Minden.
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Amsterdam: Au depens de la compagne, 1759. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 136 pages of text. Original full leather binding with minor to moderate wear. The boards are mottled calf; the spine has the original maroon spine label, and is decorated in gilt with five flower devices bordered by French fillet, and decorated further with gilt acorns, etc. The endpapers are original marbled paper. Previous owner's initials (R.D.) on the inside front cover and the title page, and the name "Robt. Digby" at the top margin of the first page of text; this is presumably Admiral Robert Digby (1732-1815). These are extracts or full letters exchanged between Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet Belle-Isle, duc de and Louis Georges Erasme Contades, Marquis de. Subject: France, History, Louis XV, 1715-1774, Anglo-French War (1755-1763). The text is clean and unmarked. Several editions with similar but not identical titles, and different…
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