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Sale 5180
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Estimate$800 – $1,200
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1814. First edition in English. 8vo. xix, (i), 234 pp. Translated from the French by Lt.-Col. Marc Rene Anne Marie, Baron de Montalembert (1777-1831). With a fine fore-edge painting of a Napoleonic battle-scene, with a previous cataloguer noting it to be the Battle of Aboukir, and flanked by two portraits, noted by same cataloguer as being Napoleon and French General Jean-Charles Pichegru. Contemporary full crimson straight-grain morocco, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges gilt; contemporary ownership signature at head of title-page; illustrated book-plate of John T. Custis, Esq. on front paste-down.
First English translation of French statesmen, general, and military engineer Lazare Carnot's Dans la Defense des Places fortes... (1810), with a fine fore-edge painting depicting a Napoleonic War battle-scene and portrait of Napoleon.
![[Fore-Edge Painting] [Napoleon] Carnot, (Lazare Nicolas) M(arguerite). A Treatise on the Defence of Fortified Places…](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/e9089b5f-ab4e-464a-8d10-dc0fab758355?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Fore-Edge Painting] [Napoleon] Carnot, (Lazare Nicolas) M(arguerite). A Treatise on the Defence of Fortified Places…](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/216a2c2d-d1b0-432a-a24a-072be2a69a1f?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
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