Strasbourg, Jean Renauld Doulssecker, 1734.
8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very nice and clean copy. 250 pp.
Uncommon first edition of this account of the campaigns of The Battle of Mulhouse in 1674 and The Battle of Turckheim 1675 in Alsace and Germany, written immediately after the events. Nicolas Deschamps, future tutor to the Duke of Bourbon, served under Marshal de Turenne.
Order-nr.: 60822