[A RARE FRENCH LIFE OF HORATIO NELSON]
Book Description
8vo, 20cm, [2],442 p., lithograph portrait frontispiece by C.Motte (moisture mark to lower marginal corner). Original half-sheep & paper-covered boards (small tear & loss to paper covering of upper board; knick at head of spine).
First French translation of Southey’s Life of Nelson translated from the third English edition. A good copy (faint inner marginal stain to four leaves; small spot to two leaves). Worldcat locates Brigham, Dresden, BNF & 5 Swiss copies only.
Author
Southey, Robert. Vie D'Horace Nelson.
Date
1820.
Publisher
Paris: Chez F.Scherff,
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