[Arms of CARNOT]. SAINT-MAURICE CABANY (E.) [...] Capitulati - Lot 153

[Arms of CARNOT]. SAINT-MAURICE CABANY (E.) [...] Capitulation of Baylen. Paris, Bureau du Nécrologe universel du XIXe siècle, and Dauvin Fontaine, 1846. In-8°, 288 pp. in-fine folding map. Green half-chagrin, spine with 5 faux nerfs decorated with gilt swords and caques, arms, place and date gilt at foot, red head, brown cover preserved. (Thierry, successor to Petit-Simier). With the arms of the CARNOT family.Third edition. On the first French defeat in Spain and General DUPONT's responsibility for these events. Some brown spots. Enriched with an engraved portrait of DUPONT, and documents concerning the work (its errors or inaccuracies) as well as Lieutenant-Colonel TITEUX's Baylen: 4 autograph letters signed by TITEUX to the colonel (1900-1902), 2 autograph letters signed by the Comte de RICHEMOND, great-grandson of DUPONT and therefore cousin of the colonel, 2 drafts of the colonel's reply and subscription forms, etc. Letter from the author to his uncle: "A Monsieur Lefébure. Respectful homage from his affectionate nephew. E. Saint-Maurice Cabany. 24 8bre 1846."