[DUFOUR, Guillaume Henri].
Rapport général du commandant en chef des troupes fédérales sur l'armement et la campagne de 1847.
Bern, Imprimerie Staempfli; Zurich, Fréd. Schulthess, 1848. 8vo. With 6 folding lithographed maps (3 with certain features hand-coloured as published, mostly to show troup locations, and with a key to the colour coding). Contemporary tanned half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [2], 81, [1 blank] pp.
€ 750
First and probably only edition of General Guillaume Henri Dufour's report on his victory in the Sonderbund War of 1847. He led the army of the Swiss Federation to defeat the Sonderbund (the alliance that seven largely Catholic Swiss cantons had formed against the federal government) in a campaign that lasted only from 2 to 29 November and claimed fewer than a hundred lives. The cantons that opposed the federal government (Lucerne, Fribourg, Valais, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug) agreed to accept national rule in religious matters.
With an early owner's name on front paste-down. Somewhat foxed, but otherwise in good condition, with a small tear in 2 maps and an occasional minor stain. Front hinge cracked. Important primary source for the Sonderbund War in Switzerland. Barth 5719; WorldCat (6 copies); not in Jähns; for Dufour: NBG 15, col. 67.
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