Le Premier Grenadier de France - La Tour d'Auvergne etude biographique
by DEROULEDE Paul
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- Condition
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About This Item
Paris: George Hurtrel, 1886 first edition. 272 pages. 4 colour plates, 6 full page text illustrations, various chapter heads and tail pieces. A fine copy in half calf and marbled boards, gilt lines and motifs on the spine. Number 50 of 100 copies on Holland paper signed by the publisher. La Tour d'Auvergne made his name on the Spanish frontier where he commanded la colonne infernale. He was killed at Neuburg in 1800. (For other books about the Napoleonic Wars please search my stock using the keyword Napoleonic.)
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- Bookseller
- Victor Sutcliffe (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64924
- Title
- Le Premier Grenadier de France - La Tour d'Auvergne etude biographique
- Author
- DEROULEDE Paul
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Hurtrel
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- colonne innfernal; tour d'auvergne; napoleonic wars; swiss campaign
- Bookseller catalogs
- napoleonic;
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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