Ventes live - Lot 1162
[Militaria]
Les rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre de Maurice comte de Saxe [...].
The Hague, P. Gosse Junior, 1756
€ 200 / 250
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Description du lot
Folio: [12]-228-[3]; 40 pl. (min fox., min. soiling).
Contemp. calf, gilt spine with 6 raised bands, red leather title label, red sp. edges (worn, some dam., joints split, min. rest.).
First ed. of this book on the art of war composed by the illustrious Marshal Herman Maurice of Saxony, who, moreover, was none other than the great-grandfather of the no less illustrious George Sand. Enriched with 40 plates, of which 22 folding pl. and 18 full-page pl., and some in-text ill. Title in red and black.
Ref. BnF (ed. by Zacharie de Pazzi de Bonneville). - STCN.
Prov. Elden Hall (bookplate).