VERDY DU VERNOIS, Adrien-Marie-François de. Hommage à la vertu guerrière, ou Éloges de quelques-uns des plus célèbres officiers français qui ont vécu et qui sont morts sous le règne de Louis XV. Hombourg-ès-Monts: Henri Pierre Wolff, 1779.
12mo (188 × 110 mm), pp. [viii], 204. Typographical ornaments. Uncut in original pale blue wrappers, expertly rebacked to style. Early armorial inkstamp to title. Edges and wrappers a little dusty, but a good copy.
First edition. A very scarce compilation of the lives of six prominent French military leaders of the eighteenth century. It includes a 35-page biography of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, commander of the French forces in Canada. The other lives included are of Adrien-Maurice, Duc de Noailles; Jean-Baptiste-François, Marquis de Maillbois; François de Chevert; Louis Beau de Mascaron and le Chevalier Dorigny.
The CCFr lists just 2 copies, OCLC notes a copy in Ontario, Canada.
£275.00
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