Eisen, Charles BEAURAIN, Jean de Histoire militaire de Flandre, depuis l'année 1…
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Eisen, Charles

BEAURAIN, Jean de Histoire militaire de Flandre, depuis l'année 1690. jusqu'en 1694 [...]. Paris chez le chevalier de Beaurain, Ch. Nic. Poirion, Ch. Ant. Jombert 1755 5 parts in 2 vols. in-f° : [8 of which engraved title]-iv-1/60, [2]-61/148-[2], [4 of which engraved title]-149/239, [2]-241/329, [2]-331/410 pp. 148 h.-t. (a few small freckles, very faint spots on pl. I-28, colored spot in one margin of pl. II-8). Contemporary marbled calf, boards framed with triple gilt fillet, gilt ribbed spines, red edges (upper jaws split, upper head of vol. II missing, piece of leather missing and reattached to upper board of vol. I, leather on lower cover of same vol. split at bottom, minor wear, corners dulled, lower ones more severely). First edition of this work by the French geographer in the service of Louis XV, Jean de Beaurain (1696-1771), illustrated with 150 etchings: title-frontispiece after Eisen, engraved title after and by Martinet in part 3, and 148 military plates on double pages, often folding, showing strategic positions and movements during battles (watercolors), city plans and a "section of the infernal machine" (t. V, pl. 21). With 5 headbands and 5 tailpieces engraved by C. Bacquoy after C. Eisen and Choffard. Ref. Cohen 128 - Brunet I:722. - The art of war [Cat. expo]. Namur, Bibl. Plantin, no. 85.

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