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DESBRIÈRE, Édouard.
La Campagne Maritime de 1805. Trafalgar.
Publisher: Librairie Militaire R. Chapelot Et Cie., 1907
Stock code: 72048
Price: £685 Currency Conversion
First edition. For his highly influential Campaign of Trafalgar, Julian Corbett relied heavily on Desbrière's "monumental work, … published under the direction of the Section Historique de l'État-major de l'Armée it contains the first attempt to form a real Staff History of the campaign, and although it makes no pretence of dealing adequately with the unpublished English material, it places us for the first time in a position to see that campaign as it really was." Uncommon.
Octavo (243 × 155 mm) Near contemporary red quarter morocco on marbled boards. 20 maps, charts and battle plans, 15 of them folding, diagrams and tables to the text. Ex-library copy with shelf-mark gilt to tail of the spine, old repair to the half-title, ink stamps of the Marseilles garrison to the title and half-title, a few repaired splits to maps, but overall very good.
