Memoires de Monsieur Du Guay-Trouin, Lieutenant General Des Arme es Navales, Commandeur de l Ordre Royal & Militaire die S. Louis

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In good condition. Ex-library of Our Lady of the Valley Library. Beautifully bound in mottled calf leather. Boards are moderately worn with edge wear, cracked hinges, creasing and flaking to spine. Corners rubbed with loss. Five raised bands on spine are rubbed. Gilt work faint, but intact on spine. Marbled fore edge faded, but intact. Old repair to front gutter. Old hand ownership on rear of front flyleaf. A few of his notations are throughout. Interior typically age-toned with light foxing. Some engravings have been folded improperly resulting in light chipping to edges. Mid-gutter nearly split. Cochineal dyed silk bookmark is detached, but has been placed carefully in middle of book. Small tear to map of Rio de Janeiro towards inner fold. Binding shaken, but intact. Please see photos. Later edition, first published in Amsterdam, in 1730 of the memoirs of one of the most illustrious French corsairs, including his spectacular attacks on Rio de Janeiro. The first official (and complete) edition was published posthumously in Paris, in 1740. Admiral Du Guay-Trouin, noted for his exploits during the War of Spanish Succession, from 1699 to 1712, sailed American and Caribbean waters as a privateer. In 1711, he led a French expedition against Rio de Janeiro, then considered impregnable, and after an eleven day siege he occupied the city for some two months, holding the governor for ransom and ransacking the churches and plundering their treasures. N° de ref. del artículo RAREF1756GNOL

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