De Zwitsersche heldin, of lotgevallen, ontmoetingen en veldtogten van eene officiersvrouw in Frankrijk, Egypte, Italie¨, Spanje, Portugal, Duitschland en de Nederlanden, met het Fransche leger onder Napoleon. Door haar zelve beschreven. Naar den tweeden druk uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Amsterdam, G. Portielje, 1826, 1st edition, xii,229 pages, engraved titlepage by H.P. Oosterhuis/H.W. Hoogkamer with vignette showing the author dressed as a soldier shooting with a pistol at an advancing cavalerist (waterstains on titlepage), fold out chart with a list of all the children of the author and her husband (some minor damage to the chart), later half linen binding, bookplate of H.L. Huyser, owner of the bookshop in Delft (bookplate shows the coat of arms of Delft), book written by Regula Engel-Egli (1761-1853), of Swiss descent, who followed her husband who was an Swiss officer fighting for the French during his 20 year service to Napoleon. She is supposed to have worn the uniform herself and fought as depicted on the titlepage, she gave birth to 21 children, of whom only 5 survived childhood, Napoleon Bonaparte was godfather to several of her children, she was called "my little Swiss" by the emperor. She published her memoirs in 1825 and this is the first and only Dutch translation of her book. She and her husband followed Napoleon to Elba and her husband died at the battle of Waterloo alongside two of her sons. In 1992 a reprint of her memoirs was published in German. She was then called an "Amazone im Schatten von Napoleon." Detailed real life account of the campaigns of Napoloen from an unusual and remarkable perspective. Saakes 8 (1826), p. 228. Extremely rare, according to Worldcat only in two libraries in the world (Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Kantonsbibliothek Graubünden). A review of the reprint from 1992 is included.