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(BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON.) [Mehée de La Touche, Jean-Claude-Hippolyte.] Alliance des Jacobins de France avec le Ministère Anglais... suivie des

(BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON.) [Mehée de La Touche, Jean-Claude-Hippolyte.] Alliance des Jacobins de France avec le Ministère Anglais... suivie des Stratagèmes de Fr.... Drake, sa Correspondance, ses Plans de Campagne, &c. Folding hand-colored etched frontispiece depicting Drake fleeing from Munich to London. 8vo, contemporary red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt, spine slightly faded, pale blue silk doublures and endleaves; minor repair on verso of plate. Paris: Imprimerie de la République, An XII [1804]

  • Notes: first edition of an exposé of anti-Bonaparte intrigues fomented by the British, including an account of the double agent Mehée's dealings with Francis Drake, the British envoy in Munich.

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