Thiers, Édouard, S. (Sosthène de Fornel) de La Laurentie [Laurencie], Denfert-Rochereau. - Histoire de la défense de Belfort. Écrite sous le contrôle de M. le colonel Denfert-Rochereau.

Paris, Armand le Chevalier, 1871. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Royal octavo. Pp. iii, 484. Plus large folding coloured lithograph map, 60x60 cm, tipped-in at end, bit finger soiled and slightly edge frayed. Original printed wrappers, poor; spine reinforced with paper, first and last 3 leaves dampmarked, half-title attached to wrapper for support, old military institutional stamps to title-page. Untrimmed, ample margined, preserved in the original state overall in a very good internal condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare and with particularly handsome map of Belfort and its environs. The two other maps are provided herewith for reference in facsimile from the copy in BNF. The book was in much demand right after publication and has been through at least 5 editions of which 3 editions within a year of publication. The 5th edition was published in 1897 by the militaria publisher Charles Lavauzelle, with the correct spelling of Laurencie. Édouard Thiers (1843-1890). Sosthène de Fornel de La Laurencie (1843-1921). WorldCat OCLC locates a single copy worldide, that in the Bibliothèque National de France. Not in Jordan. 005-5 .

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