Count de LA ROCHE. Essay on the Small War, or Method of directing the different operations of a Corps of two thousand five hundred Men of light Troops, of which sixteen hundred of Infantry and nine hundred of Cavalry. By M. le Comte de La Roche, former Colonel of Dragons. Paris, Saillant et Nyon, 1770, 2 volumes in-12 bound in full modern cloth, title page on the spines. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 folding plates of which the 5 of the second volume are enhanced with watercolors. First edition. Copy having the particularity to have the terms Count, King and Louis crossed out on the title page and on the approval.

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