Vauban, Comte de. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la gu - Lot 179

Vauban, Comte de. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre de la Vendée. Published in Paris by La Maison de Comission en Librairie in 1806. In octavo / In-8 format. Beige half-basane. Smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, irons and title. Green speckled edges. (3)-454-(1) pages. Red morocco title-piece. Some binding faults (lower headband rubbed, headband damaged), but overall good condition. Interior fresh and free of foxing. Jacques Anne Joseph Le Prestre, Marquis de Vauban, born in Dijon on March 10, 1754 and died on April 20, 1816, took part as an officer in the American War of Independence. He later became a colonel and then marshal de camp, taking part in the 1792 campaign in the army of émigrés, then in the Vendée War.