Auction 503
Guedes Rodrigues' Private Collection
By Ecléctica Leilões
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Apr 28, 2023
Rua Luísa Todi 12G | 2925-568 Azeitão, Portugal
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LOT 23:
THIÉBAULT (Paul). RELATION de L’ Expédition du Portugal, faite en 1807 et 1808, par le Ier Corps d’ Observation de ...
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THIÉBAULT (Paul). RELATION de L’ Expédition du Portugal, faite en 1807 et 1808, par le Ier Corps d’ Observation de la Gironde devenu Armée de Portugal. A Paris. 1817.
THIÉBAULT (Paul)
RELATION de L’ Expédition du Portugal, faite en 1807 et 1808, par le Ier Corps d’ Observation de la Gironde devenu Armée de Portugal. A Paris: Chez Magimel, Anselin et Pochard, 1817.
X, [2], 375 pp., 1 mapa desdobrável: il.; 230 mm.
FIRST EDITION, very rare, of the memoirs of General Paul Thiébault, a French soldier who stood out for the assault on Naples in January 1799. Promoted to the rank of General in 1801, he was transferred in 1806 to join the French army in the Peninsula, remaining in Portugal and then Spain until 1813. The work is illustrated with a large fold-out map entitled 'Carte Routiere du Portugal pour l'intelligence de la relacion de l'expédition faite dans ce Royaume en 1807 et 1808', with the corner upper right a representation of the combat of Rorissa.
¶ Bernardes Branco, v.2, 713; Duarte Sousa, v.2, 713
