‎GROSSER, HAUREZ, VINCENT‎
‎Allemagne.‎

‎Carte topographique et militaire de L'Allemagne en 204 Feuilles.... (Topographisch-militairischen Charte von Teutschland in 204 Blaettern).‎

‎Weimar, Geographischen Instituts, 1807-13. Folio-oblong. (38 x 48 cm.). Contemp hcalf. Spine a little rubbed. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Corners bumped. Stamp on ""Netz-Karte""/ ""Tableau"". With 3 other ""Netz-Karte"" on verso of Sect. 3,11 a. 14. The engraved title-page (in French) present as Sect. 10. With all 204 engraved plates (203 maps). The maps clean and fine throughout.‎

‎Atlas des Campagnes de L'Empereur Napoleon en Allemagne et en France. Gravé sous la Direction du Général de Division Pelet. 14 (of 17, nos 1-2 a. 5 missing) engraved maps. (+) 3 extra (not listed in the Table).‎

‎(Paris), Au Dépôt Gén.al de la Guerre, 1844. Large folio. The 14 engraved maps are engraved by Pelet and each measuring ca. 75 x 100 cm. Engraved (folded) title-page + Table des Cartes et Plans... de 1805,1806 et 7, 1809. (Listing 17 maps). One of the extra inserted is a large engraved map of Northern Germany (Allemagne Septentrionale), with part of Denmark, Holland etc., measuring 67 x 130 cm. The measures are paper sizes. Comprising Nos. 3. Théâtre des opérations de l'Empereur Napoléon sur le haut Danube, en Octobre. - 4. Bataille d'Ulm ou du Michelsberg, 14 et 15 Octobre 1805. - 6. Bataille d'Austerlitz, 2 Décembre 1805. - 7. Bataille d'Iéna, 14 Octobre 1806. - 8. Places de la Vistule et de la Narew, en 1807. - 9. Théatre des opérations de l'Empereur Napoléon entre la Passarge et la Prégel, 1807. - 10. Bataille de Preuss-Eylau, 8 Février 1807. - 11. Bataille de Friedland, 14 Juin 1807. - 12. Théàtre des opérations de l'Empereur Napoléon sur les bords de la Laaber, Avril 1809. - 13. Bataille d'Eckmühl, 22 Avril 1809. - 14. Combat d'Ebersberg, 3 Mai 1809. - 15. Bataille d'Essling et travaux de l'Ille de Lobau, Mai, Juin et Juillet 1809. - 16. Bataille de Wagram, 5 et 6 Juillet 1809. - 17. Bataille de Znaïm, 11 Jullet 1809. Faint scattered brownspots.‎

‎First edition. ""Jean-Jacques Germain Pelet-Clozeau (15 July 1777 - 20 December 1858) became a French general in the Napoleonic Wars and later was a politician and historian. He joined the French army in 1800 and became a topographic engineer. He joined the staff of Marshal André Masséna and was wounded at Caldiero in 1805. He served in southern Italy in 1806 and Poland in 1807. He was wounded at Ebelsberg and fought at Aspern-Essling and Wagram in 1809."" (Wikipedia).‎

‎Memoires des deux dernieres campagnes de Monsieur de Turenne en Allemagne.‎

‎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.‎

‎Voyages de Mr. Du Mont En France, En Italie, En Allemagne, À Malthe, Et En Turquie. 4 parts.‎

‎Haye, Foulque & Honoré, 1699. Large12mo. 4 part uniformly bound in 2 full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Extremities with wear, boards with several worm holes, upper capitals with wear, corners bumped and missing small parts. Internally with light occassional brownspots and a few worm tract and marginal dampstaining.Title-page to vol 4 closely trimmed with lower of text to lower margin. (10), 336, (24) (2), 337, (21) (2), 281, (23) (2), 356, (45) pp. + 7 folded plates and 1 frontispiece.‎

‎Second enlarged edition of Dumont's account of his voyages which became highly popular - party because of this work he was named official historiographer to king Charles VI. “Born in Rouen in 1667, Jean Dumont, a French Protestant, was enrolled in the army of which he became captain after taking part in campaigns in the Palatinate and Schwabia. He left the army after he was arrested, falsely suspected of espionage. After his release, he left for Italy and then for Turkey on 26 May 1690. In August 1692, after travelling across Germany on his was back he went to the Hague, where he published his ‘Nouveau voyage du Levant’ in 1694. He dedicated it to William of Schuylenburg, Lord of Dukenburg, “counsellor and clerk to the council to his Britannic Majesty”, who was “ the support of so many illustrious exiles, whom the tempest of the age has cast upon the shores of Holland…”. An enlarged edition was published in 1699 (The present work). He later studied and taught law. He also became historiographer to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and was made Baron of Carlscroon. He died in Vienna on 13th May 1727. (Christians under the Ottoman Turks) Cox I, 217Brunet VI, 20058‎

‎La Défaite militaire de L'Allemagne en 1918. L'usure des effectifs allemands. La Strategie allemande et la manoeuvre des Alliés.‎

‎Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1925. Modest, but solid hcloth. Stamp on titlepage. XVI,286 pp. and 37 folded croquis and 3 maps in colour.‎