268-MONTAGNAC. Letters from a soldier. Nine years of campaigns in Africa. Unpublished correspondence, published by his nephew. Paris, Plon, 1885, in-8, XXII-502 pp, genealogy, portrait, red half-maroquin, ribbed spine, marbled head (contemporary binding). Recollections of the conquest of Algeria, and the French military presence in the country, from the pursuit of Abd el Kader to the Moroccan border, based on his correspondence in a rather rough style. A good copy. Some foxing.