VAN HALEN, “Memoires de Don Juan Van Halen, chef d’Etat-Major d’une de divisions de l’armee de Mina en 1822 et 1823”, Bruxelles, H. Tarlier, 1827. First edition. 8vo (20x13cm), pp.[2],238,[1]+v,[1],310. Complete with 2 half titles, 2 engraved portraits, & 5 plates and a folding engraved map of Georgia and south Caucasus. Modern binding, spotting in few pages. Juan Van Halen (1788-1864) was a Spanish adventurer and a military officer. The first part of his memoirs focus on events taking place in Spain in 1817/8. The second part are the memoirs of his campaign with the Russian army under general Yermolov in the Caucasus in 1819 and 1820 and his travels in Georgia. He gives a detailed account of Southern Caucasus, already mostly under Russian occupation and vivid descriptions of the military campaigns in the mountains of the northern Caucasus where the resistance of the Muslim tribes were still stiff. For his participation in the campaign he received the medal of the Russian order of St George. RARE. Not in Atabey or Blackmer