28-BELLUNE (Claude-Victor Perrin, duc de). Extracts from the unpublished memoirs of the late Claude-Victor Perrin, duc de Bellune. Siege of Toulon in 1793. Campaign of the reserve army in year VIII (1800). Followed by observations on the account of this same campaign given by M. Thiers, in his Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, and more than 300 supporting documents. Paris, Dumaine, 1846, in-8, 518 pp, 3 folding maps, plum half-calf, smooth spine, gilt fillets (period binding). Rare first edition. "Planned in 6 vols. these memoirs did not go beyond 1796 and the first vol. They deal with the occupation of Savoy and Nice, the siege of Toulon, the army of the Pyrénées-Orientales, then the war in Italy." (Fierro, 114). A fine copy. Armorial bookplate (?).