Dietz, Johann - Edited and introduced by Mervyn Horder - Memoirs of a Mercenary

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Dietz, Johann - Edited and introduced by Mervyn Horder - Memoirs of a Mercenary (Published in London by The Folio Society. 1987. Being the Memoirs of Master Johann Dietz, Surgeon on the Army of the Great Elector and Barber to the Royal Court. 221pp. Ilstd. With b/w plts. Purple pictorial cloth. Printed on Southwark Antique Wove paper. Slipcase in Fine condition. Translated by Bernard Miall. Master Johann Dietz: Being the faithful description of his life written by himself relating all that he endured in the campaign against the Turkson the Danube, in the Arctic Ocean, in German cities and countrysides, among soldiers, robbers and peaceful citizens, young maidens and apparitions. He finally settling down in Halle, his native city, where he married two wives and all that he suffered in this world. (Died in 1738).Hardback)

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