"Marmont Maréchal, Duc De Raguse - Memoirs Of The Duke Of Raguse. 1857. Second Edition."
MARMONT MARÉCHAL, DUC DE RAGUSE (Auguste-Frédéric-Louis Viesse de) - Memoirs of Marshal Marmont Duke of Raguse from 1792 to 1841. Paris, Perrotin, 1857; in-8, 454, 413, 520, 481, 400, 432, 419, 441, 456 pp. + 216 pp., brown half-calf box bindings, spine with 4 raised bands adorned with a heraldic motif surmounted by a crown, black title and volume numbers, marbled edges. The 9 volumes. Second edition. With the portrait of the Duke of Reichstadt, that of the Duke of Ragusa and four facsimiles of Charles X, the Duke of Angoulême, the Emperor Nicolas and the Duke of Ragusa, a map of Portugal, map of the Illyrian provinces. Bookplate of Baron Daval de Fraville. Complete with the appendix by Laurent de l'Ardèche entitled "The Marshal of Marmont Duke of Raguse before history". Critical examination and refutation of his memoirs based on mostly unpublished historical documents. Nice copy.