44-[BRANDT (Heinrich von)]. Recollections of a Polish officer. Scenes from military life in Spain and Russia (1808-1812). Paris, Charpentier, 1877, in-12, III-352 pp, green half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with a repeated pomegranate, gilt head, cover preserved (Thierry).
First edition. 1/25 copies on Hollande paper.
Tulard, 221: "His souvenirs open with the impression caused by the defeat at Jena in the Polish parts of Prussia, and end with the exit from Wilna in 1812".
Enriched with a color lithograph on the frontispiece: Troupes étrangères, Régiment de la Vistule, Sapeur, de 1808 à 1814.
A very fine copy.
Ex-libris Kergorlay.
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€420
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44-[BRANDT (Heinrich von)]. Recollections of a Polish officer. Scenes from military life in Spain and Russia (1808-1812). Paris, Charpentier, 1877, in-12, III-352 pp, green half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with a repeated pomegranate, gilt head, cover preserved (Thierry).
First edition. 1/25 copies on Hollande paper.
Tulard, 221: "His souvenirs open with the impression caused by the defeat at Jena in the Polish parts of Prussia, and end with the exit from Wilna in 1812".
Enriched with a color lithograph on the frontispiece: Troupes étrangères, Régiment de la Vistule, Sapeur, de 1808 à 1814.
A very fine copy.
Ex-libris Kergorlay.
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