HISTOIRE GENERALE DE LA GUERRE FRANCO-ALLEMANDE (1870-71).
[Text in French]. Seven volumes (including an atlas), totalling over 2,500 pages, with 48 plates (including a frontispiece to all text volumes), a few text maps, plus 56 double page maps in Atlas, appendices, afterword & alphabetical index Volume VI; demy 8vo; rebacked with later (not recent) brown leather spines, lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, original dark green cloth boards with decorative blind borders, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed, some fore-corners lightly bruised or worn; ribbon markers; marbled endpapers; text block browned, hinges occasionally starting, the first couple of leaves loose in Volume 6, a couple of tiny edge splits, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; J. Tallandier, Paris, n.d.[c. 1900?]. New edition, revised and corrected. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his bookplate on the upper pastedowns. First published in 1896. Volumes I & II: L'Armee Imperiale; III: Le Siege de Paris; IV-VI: Les Armees de Province. Leonce Rousset (1850-1938) was wounded in 1870 during the Battle of Metz, before being taken prisoner by the Prussian army. He was the author of numerous historical and military publications. Item #156401
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