Memoirs Of Marshal De Tourville, 3 Volumes From 1779, Abbot Margon, Former "count Of Antioch"

Complete in three volumes in 12, full glazed calf, spine with raised bands decorated in the boxes with gilt iron, titles and volume number in ochre morocco, red edges and marbled guards; Ex-Libris: "Bibliothèque de M.le Comte d'Antioche". New complete edition in three volumes and published after the original of 1742, of this apocryphal work composed by Abbé Margon, (after Quérard and Barbier). It is therefore a biography, rather than a memoir, in which the Author retraces the Life of Tourville & the great hours of the French navy under Colbert & Louis XIV ? at the turn of the 17th century. The whole being divided into years from the birth of the Count of Tourville, Vice-Admiral and Marshal of France, until his death. The work is pleasant to read, endowed with a fluid style.