Live auction - Lot 1058
[Classical literature]
Commentaires, avec des notes historiques, critiques et militaires, par M. le comte de Turpin de Crissé [...]. Nouvelle édition, à laquelle on a ajouté la carte de l'ancienne Gaule, par M. d'Anville.
Amsterdam, Leiden, Rotterdam and Utrecht, chez les Libraires associés, 1787
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
3 vol., 8vo: [4]-xxii-[2]-319, [4]-328, [4]-434 pp.; 40 pl. (without the map, light dampstaining throughout vol. I, ink stain to pp. 49-51 in vol. I, marg stains in vol. II, marg. tear to p. 63 of vol. III).
Contemp. half sheep with sm. corners, marbled paper covers, gilt orn. flat spines with red and green leather labels, red sprinkled edges (sl. rubbed, lower cover and edges of vol. I more rubbed, ink stain to front cover of vol. II and lower cover of vol. III, sm. dampstain to front cover of vol. II, sm. wormholes to lower joints of vol. I and III).
Translation with commentary of the writer and militarian Lancelot Turpin de Crissé (1716?-1795?). Illustrated with 40 fold. plates figuring battle plans. The title mentions a map of Gaul by d'Anville but the "table of plates" only lists 40 plates and doesn't mention the map.
Prov. Count A.E. of Hemricourt, 1814 (ms. entry). - Unidentified armorial bookpl.