[BOISGELIN DE CUCÉ (L.B.)]. MILITARY HISTORY OF THE DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG containing details of the Marches, Encampments, Battles, Sieges and Movements of the King's Armies and those of the Allies in Flanders. Work dedicated and presented to S. M. Louis XV by the knight of Beaurain, ordinary geographer of the King.
The Hague, Benjamin Gibert, 1756-58. 6 volumes bound in 2 volumes in-4°, basane racinée, spine ribbed and decorated, red tr. (binding of the XIX°).
New and more correct edition, with 5 general folding maps (2 of the country of Flanders and 3 of the military camps) and a portrait placed at the beginning of the memoirs. These 6 volumes include: Campaign of 1690 - Campaign of 1691. - Campaign of 1692. - Campaign of 1693. - Campaign of 1694. - Memoirs. These last ones are placed as it should be at the beginning of the first volume and contain anecdotes "very curious and the account (of the Duke of Luxembourg) of his detention in the Bastille written by himself", printed on the original manuscript; he had been condemned to the prison for having maintained a trade with the devil! Some faded quires.
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