SAINT-SIMON, Marquis. History of the War in the Alps, or the - Lot 81

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SAINT-SIMON, Marquis. History of the War in the Alps, or the - Lot 81
SAINT-SIMON, Marquis. History of the War in the Alps, or the Campaign of 1744. By the combined armies of Spain and France commanded by His Royal Highness the Infante Don Felipe and His Serene Highness the Prince of Conti, including a history of Cuneo from its founding in 1120 to the present. Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1770. 1 vol. in-4. Half-calf with small corners. Second edition published one year after the original, containing for the first time the history of the House of Coni. (Brunet V, 60; Quérard VIII, 376.) Complete with its large comparative table, on two folded leaves, which compares the texts of Polybius, Livy, Saint-Simon, and Folard regarding Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps, and its five fold-out maps: Map of the Alps between the sea and Lake Geneva, Maps of the Valleys, Map of Demont and its surroundings, Map of the Battle of Cuneo, Map by Chevalier Folard detailing the route taken by Hannibal from Grenoble to Montgenèvre and Turin. FIRST EDITION of this detailed military report based on eyewitness accounts, followed by the History of Cuneo, which is one of the city’s rarest and most important texts. Cracks at the clasps and missing leather on the spine. As is.
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