HISTOIRE RAISONÉE DES OPÉRATIONS MILITAIRES ET POLITIQUES DE LA DERNIÈRE GUERRE, SUIVIE D'OBSERVATIONS SUR LA RÉVOLUTION QUI EST ARRIVÉE DANS LES MOEURS & SUR CELLE QUI EST SUR LE POINT D'ARRIVER DANS LA CONSTITUTION D'ANGLETERRE

Joly de St. Valier, Le Sieur

Verlag: Liege, 1783

xii,235,[1]pp. plus 10pp. supplement (not found in all copies). Half title. [bound following:] Lacombe, François: TABLEAU DE LONDRES ET DE SES ENVIRONS, AVEC UN PRECIS DE LA CONSTITUTION DE L'ANGLETERRE, & DE SA DECADENCE. Londres et a Bruxelles. 1784. 191pp. Without half title. Bound together in contemporary French mottled calf, spine richly gilt. Hinges neatly repaired. Very clean internally. An attractive copy. A firsthand account of the Revolution, by a little-known but fascinating French soldier of fortune who fought for the British. A disputatious and critical man, Joly de St. Valier condemns the British conduct of the war, especially in naval matters, and heaps some scorn on the French and De Grasse. The ten-page supplement, included here, is found in only some copies of the work. It was likely printed later and continues Joly's war of words with Sir Joseph Yorke, former British Ambassador at the Hague, who was quite involved in British naval strategy during the war. A very rare work on the market, with much important firsthand material on the military history of the Revolution. The Streeter copy realized $450 in 1967. Joly's work is bound in a contemporary French binding following a copy of François Lacombe's TABLEAU DE LONDRES ET DE SES ENVIRONS., which describes the moral and social failings of London and Britain as a whole, a consequence being the unlikelihood of their defeating the rebellious Americans. SABIN 36428. HOWES J182, "aa." STREETER SALE 802. GRAFF 2230. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM44882A

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Titel: HISTOIRE RAISONÉE DES OPÉRATIONS MILITAIRES ...
Verlag: Liege
Erscheinungsdatum: 1783