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Militaria - Espagnac, Jean Baptiste d'. Essay on the Great War, or a collection of observations by various writers on how to make it more perfect. Translated from the French. 2 volumes of 2 sections each. With 1 folding table, 1 engraved cipher table and 4 folded formation engravings. Copenhagen and Leipzig, J. B. Ackermann, 1763. 8 pp. 472; 408 pp. 20.5 x 12 cm. Contemporary calfskin bindings, each with 2 gilt-stamped spine labels, floral gilt spine and marbled endpapers (somewhat rubbed and light-stained, small worm mark in 1 capital). First German edition of the "Essai sur les grandes opérations de la guerre" (4 vols., 1755). - "Gives excerpts from about 30 historical and doctrinal writings ... and intersperses them with observations by Rohan, Puységur and Marshal of Saxony. As d'Espagnac is preferably educated on the latter his view is free and unbiased; he observes well, shows himself as connoisseur of the few regulations existing at that time and ... as a friend of the quarrés for which he drafts a form which later (1788) was included in the French regulations." (Jähns 2054). - On good paper, somewhat browned, table and 1 copper with fold tear. VAT: *
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Militaria - Espagnac, Jean Baptiste d'. Essay on the Great War, or a collection of observations by various writers on how to make it more perfect. Translated from the French. 2 volumes of 2 sections each. With 1 folding table, 1 engraved cipher table and 4 folded formation engravings. Copenhagen and Leipzig, J. B. Ackermann, 1763. 8 pp. 472; 408 pp. 20.5 x 12 cm. Contemporary calfskin bindings, each with 2 gilt-stamped spine labels, floral gilt spine and marbled endpapers (somewhat rubbed and light-stained, small worm mark in 1 capital). First German edition of the "Essai sur les grandes opérations de la guerre" (4 vols., 1755). - "Gives excerpts from about 30 historical and doctrinal writings ... and intersperses them with observations by Rohan, Puységur and Marshal of Saxony. As d'Espagnac is preferably educated on the latter his view is free and unbiased; he observes well, shows himself as connoisseur of the few regulations existing at that time and ... as a friend of the quarrés for which he drafts a form which later (1788) was included in the French regulations." (Jähns 2054). - On good paper, somewhat browned, table and 1 copper with fold tear. VAT: *
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