Guedes Rodrigues' Private Collection
Lot 22:
CHAVES (F. Sá)
SUBSÍDIOS para a História Militar das Nossas Lutas Civis. As Campanhas de meu Pai. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1914.
2 v.: il.; 265 mm.
First edition of this detailed account of the campaigns in which Colonel de Cavalaria Francisco Sá Chaves was involved during the Civil War. The first volume deals, in a sort of long introductory preamble, with the Peninsular War. According to Cristóvão Aires, it is "a documentary analysis, carried out under a lucid and impartial criterion, of the campaigns that [it] deals with, with safe criteria and well deduced from the facts that it points out and narrates, with elevation and concept." Rare.
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