92. VIVIEN (Jean-Stanislas). Memories of my military life (1792-1822). Paris, J. Leroy, 1906. In-8, half black chagrined cloth, smooth threaded spine with gilt frieze at head and tail, covers preserved, corners rubbed (period binding). FIRST EDITION PRINTED AT 60 NUMBERED COPIES OUT OF TRADE. Separate edition of the Carnet de la Sabretache magazine, in which these memories had just appeared in 6 parts in 1905 and 1906. The first edition in bookshop of the text would be published the following year by Hachette. 4 plates out of text including a portrait-frontispice. Enlisted in 1792, the grenadier officer Jean-Stanislas Vivien served in the first Italian campaign, was billeted in the camp of Boulogne, served in the campaigns of Austria (he was wounded at Austerlitz), Prussia (he fought at Jena) and Poland (he served at Eylau and at Heilsberg). He then participated until 1814 in the war in Spain, which he finished with the rank of commander (Jean Tulard, Nouvelle bibliographie critique des mémoires sur l'époque napoléonienne, Paris, Droz, 1991, n° 1507). Provenance: Bernard Franck (autograph consignment signed by Commandant Emmanuel Martin, scientific editor of the vignette text, ex-libris).
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