Placets de l'officier Desbans / preface by Neil MacGregor.

Author
Desbans, Edme Louis, 1728- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
French
Published/​Created
New York, N.Y. : Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club, 2007.
Description
14, 41 pages : facsimiles ; 38 cm

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    • Petitions of an army officer named Desbans (probably Edme Louis Desbans) to Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI requesting promotion to a lieutenant-colonelcy.
    • Facsim. ed. of a book made in Paris in 1775, containing fifteen pictorial decorations, as well as head- and tailpieces by Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin who also lettered the text.
    • Foreword by Jayne Wrightsman.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (1st group, p. 14).
    References
    Wrightsman collection, v. 5, p. 340-344
    OCLC
    221757256
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