Le Général Comte de Ségur - Histoire et Mémoires - 1873

A fascinating original edition of this eight-volume set that gathers the writings of General Count de Ségur, a military figure and memoirist of the nineteenth century -

The whole forms a vast historical and autobiographical panorama, in which personal memories, accounts of campaigns, and political reflections mingle, offering valuable testimony on the Napoleonic wars, the upheavals of the Empire and the Restoration, as well as on the military and diplomatic life of his era -

The style, at once narrative and analytical, lends memoirs a documentary and literary value, illuminating the events through the first-hand experience of an engaged actor -

The General Count of Ségur - History and Memoirs - 1873 - Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII - Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie -
529, 563, 477, 413, 464, 480 and 549-14 pages

Good condition of the bindings, works in their antique prune half-leather, marbled boards, wear from use, spine with raised bands ornamented and speckled, titles, volumes and the author's name gilded -

Good interior condition, browning; the 8th volume 'Mélanges' contains the memories and daydreams of an octogenarian, without the portrait and the facsimile that are often missing, marbled endpapers in good condition, ex-libris -

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