54 - BEAUCHAMP, Alphonse de. The History of the War in the Vendée and the Chouans, from Its Origins to the Pacification of 1800.

BEAUCHAMP, Alphonse de. The History of the War in the Vendée and the Chouans, from Its Origins to the Pacification of 1800. A rare account of the War in the Vendée, illustrated with a large, color-enhanced fold-out map; a complete set of 3 volumes, all identically bound. Paris, Giguet and Michaud, 1807. 3 volumes in-8, brown half-basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt metal tools, red title label and volume numbers, covers lined with pink marbled paper, speckled edges 430 pp.; 448 pp.; 464 pp., a large full-color fold-out map in Volume 1, engraved by Blondeau after Lapie. Bindings rubbed, rare marginal foxing. Small tear at the margin of the map. Second edition, revised and expanded from the original of 1806, featuring the large fold-out map of the Theater of the War in the Vendée and the Chouans, drawn by Lapie and hand-colored at the time. A rare early account of the War in the Vendée, tracing the royalist uprisings in western France from their origins to the pacification carried out under the Consulate in 1800. Its author, Alphonse de Beauchamp (1767–1832), who served as an editor at the Ministry of Police under the Directory and was a monarchist historian, was monitored and periodically placed under house arrest by Fouché. Handwritten bookplate by Louise d’Arboval on the front endpapers. A fine, uniform set, complete in 3 volumes.