Histoire De Maurice, Comte De Saxe, Duc De Courlande Et De Semigalle, Marechal De Courlande Et De Semigalle, Marechal- General Des Camps Et Armees De Sa Majeste Tres Chretienne

Paris, Saillant, Pissot, Vve Duchesne, Vve Desaint, Lesprit, 1775; two duodecimo volumes (166 x 103 mm); XVI, 451 pp., 1 errata leaf and 2 unnumbered leaves, 473 pp., 2 unnumbered leaves. Contemporary full marbled calf, smooth spine decorated with fleurons, with burgundy title and volume labels. Light marks on 3 leaves of volume 1. New edition, corrected and considerably enlarged, by Baron d'Espagnac. The author, governor of Les Invalides from 1766 to 1783, was aide-de-camp to the Maréchal de Saxe. From the library of the Maréchal de Camp of Engineers Morlaincourt. A very fine copy.