Historical Memoir of a Mission to the Court of Vienna in 1806; by the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Adair, G. C. B. with a Selection from His Despatches
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844. First. Hardcover. Original brown cloth boards, elaborately tooled; [viii] 532 pp. [32 pp. publisher's ads]; unillustrated. VG-, cover shows wear, spine has some fraying to spine edges and hinges. Text block age-darkened but pages are still bright. Spine sound and pages crisp. Name written at top of title page. Item #127854
This Original-edition volume includes the following chapters: Causes of the commencement and rupture of the negotiation for peace in 1806 between England and France, Transactions until the cessation of diplomatic intercourse between England and Austria, Various dispatches, Letter to Count Sadion, Remarks on M. Gentz's narrative of what passed at the Prussian headquarters in October 1806 previous to the Battle of Jena, and Remarks on M. Gentz's observations on the negotiations of 1806 for peace between England and France.
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