Memoires de Monsieur du Guay-Trouin, Lieutenant General des Armees Navales, Commander de l'Orde Royal & Militaire de Saint Louis
by DUGUAY-TROUIN (René)
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A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1740. 8vo, 162 x 100 mms., pp. [ii], 279 [280 blank], engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, five folding engraved plates of ships opposite pages xxviii, 86, 120 (2 plates), 122, and facing page 160 is a folding engraved plan of Rio de Janeiro, bound in contemporary sheepskin, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; covers a bit scored, but a very good copy, with a presentation inscription on front paste-down end-paper, "From/ Charles Dickson Inglis/ Captain Royal Navy/ To Hilda Inglis/ 11 June 1905." Dickson (born 1834) received his commission on 1 December 1854. This is a reprint of the first authorized edition published in a quarto volume in Paris in 1740 and edited by P. F. G. de Beauchamps. René Duguay-Trouin (1673 - 1736) began his career in the French navy in 1691, and he was almost constant engaged in naval warfare for the next thirty years. His most famous naval expedition was the capture of Rio de Janeiro in 1711. The story goes that Duguay Trouin was encouraged by friends and family to write his memoirs, but he did not wish to see them published; and of course they were.
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- Memoires de Monsieur du Guay-Trouin, Lieutenant General des Armees Navales, Commander de l'Orde Royal & Militaire de Saint Louis
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- DUGUAY-TROUIN (René)
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- A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1740
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