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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A very scarce, smartly bound copy of this account from Captain von Colomb, a Prussian officer involved in partisan warfare during the Napoleonic Wars, with map illustrations. Handsomely bound in half cloth with marbled paper boards.This volume includes two double-page map illustrations, one of the map of operations on French lines of communication (May-November 1813) and the other of operations in the Netherlands (November-December 1813, January - February 1814). Collated, complete.This edition, Campaign Journal of a Prussian Officer (18131814), is an account from Captain von Colomb, a Prussian officer involved in partisan warfare during the Napoleonic Wars, specifically during the 18131814 campaigns, translated into French. These were the years of the War of the Sixth Coalition, when various European powers (including Prussia) joined forces to push Napoleon out of Central Europe. Bound in half cloth with paper boards. Externally, very smart. Very slight rubbing to boards, with one or two faint handling marks. Very minor rubbing and bumping to extremities. Hinges strained with hinge glue residue showing. Very slight handling marks to endpapers with one or two spots. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned, particularly to perimeters, with one or two spots to fore edge. Very Good Indeed. book.