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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. Par M. Joly de St. Valier, Lieutenant-Colonel d'Infanterie.
Liege: 1783, first edition, octavo, [i] -xii, [1] -235, [1], bound in contemporary polished calf, spine compartmented and gilt, and royal monogram tooled in gilt on the boards, old hand-stamps from an old military school library on verso of half title and on title-page, text is very clean and bright.
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Military and naval history of the American War, highly critical of the English and of De Grasse, and their operations in America. This copy, like most others, is wanting the ten page separately titled supplement. The work emphasizes French naval operations. Joly de St. Valier was a French political refugee who had settled in London where he earned the enmity of the government for his writings and was for a time imprisoned, and eventually settled in Amsterdam.
Sabin 36428; Echeverria and Wilkie 783/54; Howes J-182; Streeter Sale, 802
