A FRENCH VOLUNTEER OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE....
[More, Charles Albert]:

Paris. 1898. xi,[1],209,[7]pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original blue cloth, gilt pictorial cover, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g. Textblock detached from boards, spine wrinkled. Internally clean and very good, untrimmed. The first English edition, after the French original of 1827, translated and edited by Robert B. Douglas. More, also known as the Chevalier de Pontgibaud, fought on the side of the American army during the Revolution as an aide-de-camp to Lafayette. His memoirs include accounts of major events in the war, as well as his post-Revolutionary travels in Europe, and the French Revolution. HOWES M786. CLARK I:279.

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