Beauvais de Préau/Parizot - Victoires, conquêtes, désastres, revers et guerres civiles des Français, de 1792 à 1815, par une - 1817-1822

Beauvais de Préau, Charles Théodore; Parizot, Jacques Théodore. Victories, conquests, disasters, revers, and civil wars of the French, from 1792 to 1815, by a society of military men and men of letters.

27 volumes and a large map of Europe mounted on parchment ("General map of the victories and conquests of the French from 1792 to 1815").

Paris, Panckoucke. 1817-1822. 27 volumes octavo. Set in uniform half-leather bindings with smooth spines adorned with gilt fillets and title pieces (some in poor condition or missing). Cracked leather on some volumes, average condition as visible in the photos. One case for the parchment map.

Original edition of this monument erected to the glory of the French army, complete with its 171 plates (plans or maps, most unfoldable) and 16 plates of facsimile. Bindings in average condition with rubbing and edge wear, a few title pieces missing or in poor condition. Interior largely free of foxing and featuring a very beautiful parchment map.

This majestic work is a military monument raised to the glory of France. Beauvais, in charge of the edition, requested memoirs from many military figures to recount, through eyewitnesses, the precise history of battles from Year I of the Republic (1792) through 1815. The last two volumes, often missing, are a gallery of portraits of marshals and generals.

Overall, in uniform bindings, richly illustrated, complete with the 27 volumes and the parchment map of Europe. The atlas is not present here, which is often the case.