Mémoires d'artillerie [...]. Troisième édition, beaucoup plus ample & plus complette que la seconde.

3 vol., 4to: [36 incl. front. and portrait]-lxiv-338, [16]-400, [12]-468 pp.; 208 pl. and 17 fold. tables (sm. tear in fold of pl. 84 (vol. 2), sm. stain on pl. 33 (vol. 3), occ. spotting).

Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (head and tail of vol. 1 missing, tail of vol. 2 damaged, joints sl. rubbed, corners sl. bumped). Large margined copy.

Third and augmented ed. (1st 1697) of this important manual, the most complete of its time, used in the training of consecutives generations of officers. Renowned for its extensive and detailed iconography: a portrait of the author by Edelinck after H. Rigaud, an allegorical front. with the portrait of the dedicatee Louis-Auguste de Bourbon by Lepautre after A. Dieu, 3 large title-vignettes by Chedel or Soubeyran, an arm. and 8 headpieces and 208 pl. (43 fold.) by Lepautre after E. Fourier depicting arms (canons, mortars, rifles) and munition, tools, bridges, arsenals, etc.; completed with 17 fold. tables.
Ref. Gerrare 235 (1st ed.).