Anne-Henri, vicomte de DAMPMARTIN (1755-1825). Manuscrit autographe, Biographies de mon père et de ma mère avec divers autres morceaux, Paris 1821 ; fort volume in-8° de 428pages, contemporary red morocco binding, double floral lace framing, one cold, the other gilt, spine with 4 nerves decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, floral lace on red morocco listel inside the boards, gilt edges (Thouvenin). Dampmartin, born in Uzès in 1755, had lived in Berlin under the protection of Baron de Keith, nephew of the marshal, and was entrusted by Frederick William II with the education of the son of the Countess of Lichtenau, the king's favorite, hated by the Berliners. When, after the king's death, the favorite was held prisoner in his palace, Dampmartin voluntarily shared her captivity. Returning to France after the 18 Brumaire, he was appointed councillor to the Nîmes prefecture in 1807. In 1813, he was elected deputy for the Gard region, and supported Napoleon's deposition and the recall of the Bourbon family. He died in 1825. A literary scholar, in 1811 he published Quelques traits de la vie privée de Frédéric-Guillaume II, roi de Prusse. Son of Jean-Antoine-Roch Cabot de Dampmartin, governor of Uzès (born in Uzès in 1727), and distant descendant of the Venetian navigator Jean Cabot, and of Jeanne-Élisabeth-Josèphe de Venant (born in Arras in 1735), Dampmartin, in these biographical notes, interspersed with copies of original letters and poems, Dampmartin, in addition to his own family, portrays not only French society before the Revolution, but also all of German-speaking Europe during the Revolution and Empire, often in very curious detail. A very fine copy by the author, with his engraved bookplate, in a very fresh binding signed by Thouvenin.