61-CATINAT (Nicolas de). Memoirs and correspondence. Mis en ordre et publiés d'après les manuscrits autographes et inédits conservés jusqu'ce jour dans sa famille, par M. Bernard Le Bouyer de St Gervais. Paris, Mongie, 1819, 3 vols. in-8, XLVIII-368 pp., 523 pp. and 400 pp. 4 engraved plates including a frontispiece in each volume, 15 folded facsimiles, 8 plans and maps, 8 folded tables, blue half-maroquin, spine ribbed, arms at foot, gilt head (later binding). First edition. Bourgeois et André, II, 886: "Catinat's life up to 1686 is summarized: the rest is filled by documents which are almost entirely letters. These are very valuable; but the narrative in which they are embedded does not deserve the name of memoirs." Publication of the papers of Marshal de Catinat, capital for the military history of the 17th century. A fine copy, from the library of the Marquis Des Roys, with his coat of arms on the spine and bookplate.