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Sketch of the Life of General Moreau: and the Details of His Last Moments, to Which is Added an Appendix, Containing Several Interesting Letters
by Svinine, Paul
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. Duyckinck. Good with no dust jacket. 1814. Hardcover. Brown paper boards with leather spine have rubbed and bumped corners and edges with some leather cracking and chipping at spine tail. Front board starting. Part of front pastedown endpaper is peeled off. A bookplate is on the front pastedown and another previous owner's name is inscribed on the rear pastedown. Foxing throughout. Pavel Petrovich Svinin (or Svinyin) , here listed as author Paul Svinine, was a Russian painter and writer not known for accurate accounts. "Charged to accompany the General on the continent," he was aide-de-camp to General Jean Victor Marie Moreau, a former supporter of Napoleon and later advisor in the Prussian and Austrian war against Napoleon in 1813. Svinin was present at Moreau's death from wounds inflected at the Battle of Dresden. The appendix of letters contains one from Moreau and a correspondence between Madames Moreau and Bonaparte while Napoleon was in power. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 107 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009165
- Title
- Sketch of the Life of General Moreau: and the Details of His Last Moments, to Which is Added an Appendix, Containing Several Interesting Letters
- Author
- Svinine, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- E. Duyckinck
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1814
- Keywords
- Napoleonic Wars, Jean Victor Marie Moreau
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Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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