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SAXE (Marshal, Hermann Maurice, Count of). Les Rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'Art de la Guerre... The Hague, Pierre Gosse junior, 1756. In-folio of xii, 228 pp, (2), ff. Marbled calf, spine decorated with boxes with niello decoration, title page in maroon, marbled pages (period binding). Spellings otherwise a good copy. The illustration consists of a title vignette, 23 header vignettes, 20 culs-de-lampe and 40 folding plates bound in fine. First edition of this art of war composed by the illustrious Marshal Herman Maurice de Saxe, who, by the way, is none other than the great-grandfather of the no less illustrious George Sand...
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SAXE (Marshal, Hermann Maurice, Count of). Les Rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'Art de la Guerre... The Hague, Pierre Gosse junior, 1756. In-folio of xii, 228 pp, (2), ff. Marbled calf, spine decorated with boxes with niello decoration, title page in maroon, marbled pages (period binding). Spellings otherwise a good copy. The illustration consists of a title vignette, 23 header vignettes, 20 culs-de-lampe and 40 folding plates bound in fine. First edition of this art of war composed by the illustrious Marshal Herman Maurice de Saxe, who, by the way, is none other than the great-grandfather of the no less illustrious George Sand...
