"Observations sur le siège d’Anvers par le général Desprez. Autographe".

Bifolio, 8vo: [4] pp., in French, pen and brown ink, paper with watermark "J. Whatman/ CDL & Cie" (browning).

Sewn.

Interesting account of the siege of Nov.-Dec. 1832, attributed to the French general Desprez (1778-1833) by handwritten annotations by another hand (which dates the siege to 1833!). He was officer in the Engineers and aide-de-camp to Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples. In 1831, he was invited by King Leopold I to participate in the organisation of the Belgian army.
Joined: 1. Idem - Autogr. signed note. "Paris, Samedi". 1 p., 12mo, in French. - 2-6. 5 printed doc. relating to Antwerp. 17th-18th c., in Dutch (except the last one in French). Concerns: decree of Philip V of Spain on the Scheldt dikes (1649),- decree of Charles of Lorraine on livestock in the Oosterweel and Wilmarsdonk polders (1769),- "Waerschouwinge" of the "Kamer van den Armen" (placard, 1779, some wormholes with minor loss),- police ordinance reforming public assistance (1779),- Mémoire pour Daniel Goris, marchand à Dijon, [...] contre Dlle. Marie Auvray, veuve de François Mols, ancien échevin de la ville d'Anvers [...]. Dijon, widow Sirot, [after 1747]. F. Mols was the father of Michel Mols, Grand Almoner of Antwerp, ennobled by Maria Theresa in 1756. (7 pcs)