Three French language titles: (1) (Dufour, G.H.). Rapport général du Commandant en Chef

des Troupes Fédérales sur l'armement et la campagne du 1847. Berne/ Zurich, Staempfli/ F. Schultress, 1848, (2),81 p., w. 6 fold. lithogr. maps, cont. hcalf. Foxed throughout, 2 maps w. (closed) tear, occas. stains. Upper joint split. Only edition of this account by general Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787-1875) on his victory in the Sonderbund War. The highest mountain of Switzerland, the Dufourspitze, was named after him. (2) (N.J. Marey). Vie du Capitaine Thurot. Par M***. Paris, "L'imprimerie du Cerce Social (...) et chez les principaux Libraires du Royaume", 1791, 140 p., modern marbled boards w. mor. letterpiece on spine. First edition of the first full biography of the notorious (naval) captain and smuggler François Thurot, feared by British ships, who was killed in action during a battle with Captain Elliot. Watersts./ partly creased. -and 1 other (1814, warranted in pen).

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