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NOÉ, LOUIS-PANTALÉON-JULES-AMÉDÉE. Mémoires relatifs a l'Expedition Anglaise. . . pour aller combattre en Égypte. 1826. Inscribed.
NOÉ, LOUIS-PANTALÉON-JULES-AMÉDÉE, Comte de. Mémoires relatifs a l'Expedition Anglaise partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'Armée d'Orient. 19 hand-colored lithographed plates; 2 folding lithographed maps (Europe/Africa/Asia, and Egypt/Red Sea), hand-colored in outline. [4], iii, [1], 288, [4] pages, including half-title and leaves of errata and directions to binder at end. 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked; minor repair on verso of second map, scattered marginal foxing generally not affecting plates. Paris, 1826
- Notes: first edition. with signed inscription (slightly cropped at end): "presented by the author to his old brother officer Sir Charles Greville 1831--Le Comte de N[oé]." "Noé was one of the French nobility who managed to escape to England during the Revolution in France. In 1791 he jointed the army and served in India. In 1800 the force was sent to Egypt to join the allied Anglo-Turkish forces sent against Napoleon at the time of the Battle of the Nile"--Blackmer sale 870. Abbey Travel 350; Colas 2208.
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