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Bonneval,C.A.de. Meritorious Life of the Count...

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Bonneval,C.A.de. Meritorious Life of the Count of Bonneval, formerly Imperial General of the Infantry,... Part 1 (v.2). Constantinople (= Jena, Cuno) 1738. Front. and 14 copper plates. 456 (recte 464) pp. (without pp. 3-8). Brown cloth (spine damaged, chipped and rubbed). Hayn-Got. I, 412: "Vorläufer Casanovas"; cf. Blackmer 162 and Atabey 129 (French original edition). - Fictional memoirs. B. fought under Eugene of Savoy in the Span. War of Succession in Belgium a. Italy a. later in the Balkans (also several battle plans). In 1720 he converted to Islam and became provincial governor of the Porte. - Stronger signs of wear, beginning with marginal tears, browned and stained.