BENYOWSKY Maurice-Auguste de. Memoirs and... - Lot 26 - Audap & Associés

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BENYOWSKY Maurice-Auguste de. Memoirs and... - Lot 26 - Audap & Associés
BENYOWSKY Maurice-Auguste de. Memoirs and travels of Maurice-Auguste, count of Benyowsky, his military operations in Poland, his exile in Kamchatka, his escape and his journey through the Pacific Ocean, to Japan, Formosa, China. With details of the establishment he was charged by the French ministry to form in Madagascar. Paris, Buisson, 1791; 2 volumes in-8 half tan basane, smooth spines, red parts. Captivating memoirs but that historians suspect of amplifications due to the author's overflowing imagination. This one of Polish-Austrian-Hungarian origin was imprisoned by order of Catherine II, met Benjamin Franklin in Paris and would have been crowned sovereign of Madagascar.
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