Author: Lejeune, [Louis-François Baron]: (D'Anvers, N. ed.:)
Title: Memoirs […].
Description: London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1897. 2 vols., 8vo., pp. [vii] viii-xx, [ii], 341, [iii], [32]; [viii], 309, [i]. 32-page publisher's catalogue to rear of vol.I. Quite foxed, occasional neat pencil note to margins. Dark green publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines, blind-tooled boards. Slightly cocked, rubbed with some wear to endcaps and corners, a few small marks, remains of a removed bookplate to each front pastedown, endpapers foxed. Still good, sound copies Memoirs of Louis-François, Baron Lejeune (1775-1848), aide-de-camp to Marshal Berthier from 1800 until 1812. In this role he played an active part in virtually all of the Napoleonic campaigns. The translator N. D'Anvers, or Nancy of Antwerp, was the pseudonym of Nancy Bell (1844-1933), a prolific translator and writer now primarily remembered for her translations of several of the works of Jules Verne.

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