Memoires du comte de Forbin, chef d'escadre, chevalier de l'Ordre militaire de Saint Louis
Contributors: Reboulet, Simon, 1687-1752; Le Comte, Louis, 1655-1728
Publisher: chez François Girardi, imprimeur et libraire
Published: 1748
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Subjects: Sieges; Naval History; History
Notes: First printed: Amsterdam, 1729.

Revised by Simon Reboulet, and perhaps by Père Lecomte. Cf. Bourgeois & André, Sources de l'hist. de France, XVIIe siècle (1610-1715) v. 2, p. 174.

Includes a description of the attack on Cartagena in 1680, v. 1, p. 29-34.

Pagination: v. 1: [4], 383, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 344 p.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² A-2I⁸⁻⁴ (2I4 verso blank); v. 2: pi² A-2C⁸⁻⁴ 2D⁸ 2E-2F⁴

Half title and title page leaves printed in red and black; engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

European Americana 748/66.

John Carter Brown Library bound in full contemporary mottled calf.