Moritz von Sachsen.

Mes rêveries. Ouvrage posthume... Augmenté d'une histoire abrégée de sa vie, & de différentes pièces qui y ont rapport, par M. l'Abbé Pérau. 2 vols. With 79 (instead of 84) mostly folded. Copper plates, each colored and colored in color, respectively. Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstée and Merkus, 1757. 4°. [5] ll., CXXXIV pp., [1] fol., 159 pp.; [2] ll., 259 pp. Contemporary calf with gilt spine label, rich spine gilt & marbled endpapers. endpapers. (Somewhat more rubbed, minimal worming, capitals with occasional small missing parts). Jähns 1500ff. Lipperheide Qc 7. cf. Pohler III, 590. - Second edition, first published in folio the previous year. The man who often presents himself here as so clever, so free, and so generous, has spent his life more concerned with beautiful women and good hunting than with serious studies, even if he did take a run at these once in a while. Nevertheless, or perhaps because of this, his book is so captivating? (Jähns). - The military science. The military science treatises of the famous marshal with "new and bold views on the science of war" With about 20 splendid uniform plates, the remaining plates with standards, equipment, artillery, schemat. of troop formations, etc. - Bookplate. - Second edition. With ca. 20 splendid uniform plates, the remaining plates with standards, equipment, artillery, schematic representation of troop formations etc..