Author: Lemercier, Adrien
Title: Les Marins CéLèbres de la France
Description: Tours, France, Mame et Cie, 1850. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. Emerald green cloth boards with detailed gilt designs on front, rear, and spine. Gilt lettering on spine. 238 pp with 2 unnumbered leaves of bw plates. Text in French. Includes bw plate of Jean Bart, born in 1650 a French naval commander and privateer. Also includes bw plate of Dugay Trouin, "René Trouin, Sieur du Gué, usually called René Duguay-Trouin, was a famous Breton corsair of Saint-Malo. He had a brilliant privateering and naval career and eventually became "Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King", and a Commander in the Order of Saint-Louis"-website. VG- (overall wear to boards, corners and edges bumped and worn, foxing to block and lightly to some page ends, wear to front end pages, text pages are otherwise clear) .

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