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Mémoires particuliers extraits de la correspondance d'un voyageur avec feu Mr. Caron de Beaumarchais Sur la Pologne la Lithuanie la Russie blanche Pétersbourg Moscow la Crimée etc. etc. Contenant des Observations nouvelles sur la Puissance militaire de la Russie ses Finances ses Murs et Coutumes etc. etc. Publiés par M.D Private memoirs extracted from the correspondence of a traveller with the late Mr. Caron de Beaumarchais on Poland Lithuania White Russia Petersburg Moscow the Crimea etc. etc. Containing new observations on the military power of Russia its finances its manners and customs etc. etc. Published by M.D
180789775Hamburg Paris: A. Galland 1807. Fine. A. Galland Hamburg Paris 1807 12.6 x 19.8 cm Relié Very rare first edition cf. Monglond VII 661.Contemporary half brown sheep with corners smooth spine gilt with floral tools and fillets rubbing to spine and joints marbled paper boards grey endpapers and pastedowns corners softened yellow edges.Pleasant clean interior.A shadowy figure who was by turns and at times simultaneously a secret agent Talliens associate a Revolutionary pamphleteer and a double agent under the Directory and the Empire Méhée de La Touche 17621827 left in 1784 on a covert diplomatic mission to Poland and Russia from which he was expelled at the end of 1791. The correspondence he publishes here running from 1788 to July 1791 abounds in valuable information on the social and political situation of these countries at the close of the eighteenth century. A. Galland hardcover
