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MILITARIA -- (CHASTENET, J.F.) de PUYSÉGUR. Art de la guerre, par principes et par règles. (2nd ed.). Par., Ch.-A. Jombert, 1749. 2 vols. (10), 411, (5); (8), 547, (5) pp. W. 51 fold. engr. plates, plans & maps and 4 engr. head- & tail-pieces and sev. woodcut initials in the text. 4°. Mod. antique style hcf. extra w. marbled brds. & red edges. (Some dampstains and some wormholes in upper right margin of the first and last pp. of vol. 2, not affecting the text at all, first map and plate 38 with small tear not affecting the plate).
The first quarto-edition of this important 18th-century military work on the development of infantry-tactics. The work was first published only a year earlier in 1748, also in Paris. Jacques de Chastenet de Puységur (1655-1743), son of the well-known military author and general, entered the military service in 1677. He distinguished himself during the French campaign in Spain and the Low Countries under Kings Louis XIV and XV. His monumental work on military strategy and tactics was published five years after his death by his son, Armand Marie Jacques de Chastenet de Puységur (1751-1825). - Sloos, 03056; Cf. Jähns I, 516; Cohen/Ricci, p. 830 and Sander, 1620, for 2 other editions (Paris, 1748 & 's-Grav., 1749, both with a portrait of the author and 41 plates only).€ 300
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