DUGUAY-TROUIN.- (OZANNE, Nicolas-Marie). Recueil des combats de Duguay-Trouin les campagnes de Duguay-Trouin. 1806. “Naval Battles and Corsairs” Two first editions bound together:
Ad 1: The copper engravings depicting the naval battles of Duguay-Trouin are by Jeanne François Ozanne, after designs by her brother Nicholas Ozanne. The maps were engraved by Drouet. The illustrations contain page reference which pertain to the officail authorized edition of the Memoirs. Paris, 1740. The Ozanne’s were from a family of engravers, originally from Brest. They worked maily with maritime themes. The sister, Marie Jeanne married the engraver Yves Marie Le Gouaz, who published this series of plates. Ad 2: Rare first edition of Yves Marie Le Gouaz’s finely engraved sea-battle prints after drawings by Ozanne. They show a title-print showing a fishing boat before the entrance to the port at Jean-Bart’s native Dunkerque, seventeen views of his conquests of Dutch, Spanish and English ships from 1675 to 1696, and a view of his Channel crossing in a small row boat after escaping from an English prison in 1689.More images at the link.
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