Oudinot, Nicholas Charles Victor, duc de Reggio

De l'Italie et de Ses Forces Militaires [provenance: William Macneile Dixon]

Paris: Anselin, Libraire pour l'Art Militaire, 1835. Hardcover. [4], 324, [2] p.: title vignette, tables; 22 cm. Contemporary half calf with gilt-tooled spine title; both gilt-tooled and blind-tooled spine decoration. Pink, blue, and white marbled paper in an unusual tiger pattern over boards. Dark blue and black marbled endpapers in a French shell pattern. Brown ribbon bookmark. Errata on final page. Lacking map. With: 2 slips stating "With the compliments of Professor W. Macneile Dixon," loose; one also has the emblem of John Lane Co., The Bodley Head, New York City. William Macneile Dixon (1866-1946) was an English author and professor of English language and literature at the University of Glasgow from 1904 to 1935. The author, Nicholas Charles Victor Oudinot, duc de Reggio (1791-1863), was the son of Napoleon I's marshal Nicolas Oudinot. In 1814, at the end of the later Napoleonic campaigns, he was promoted to major. He led the cavalry school at Saumur from 1822 to 1830 and was inspector general of cavalry from 1836 to 1848. Most significantly, he commanded the eight to ten thousand French troops that besieged Rome in 1849, taking it back from the short-lived Roman Republic. Lacking map; otherwise in Very Good Condition: binding is rubbed, with several scrapes in the paper over the boards; front joint just starting at head; clean and bright. Very Good. Item #004552

Price: $75.00