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95 - [MILITARIA]. MAUBERT DE GOUVEST (Jean-Henri). MILITARY MEMOIRS ON THE ANCIENTS. Or A Detailed Account of Everything the Ancients Have Written Concerning the Art of War. Compiled and arranged by Mr. Maubert de Gouvest. Brussels, 1762. Two volumes in 12mo format, bound in marbled fawn calfskin, with smooth spines divided by fillets and adorned with gilt fleurons, red morocco title labels and brown volume number labels, red edges (contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION of this collection devoted to the organization of armies and the practices of warfare in antiquity: weaponry, combat formations, the use of infantry and cavalry, marches, and maneuvers. It is illustrated with a FRONTISPICE repeated at the beginning of each volume depicting a “Roman soldier on the march, taken from Trajan’s Column,” within a rocaille frame, and 16 PLATES (excluding title page), including a fold-out map. An edition published in The Hague appeared the same year, with the same collation. A BEAUTIFUL COPY, in fresh condition, with an 18th-century heraldic bookplate depicting a shield bearing a cross pattée, surmounted by a crown and a crest, accompanied by two male figures and the Latin motto “SIC CHRISTIANUS UT STRENUUS ” (“As Christian as he is valiant”), unidentified.
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[MILITARIA]. MAUBERT DE GOUVEST (Jean-Henri). MILITARY MEMOIRS ON THE ANCIENTS. Or A Detailed Account of Everything the Ancients Have Written Concerning the Art of War. Compiled and arranged by Mr. Maubert de Gouvest. Brussels, 1762. Two volumes in 12mo format, bound in marbled fawn calfskin, with smooth spines divided by fillets and adorned with gilt fleurons, red morocco title labels and brown volume number labels, red edges (contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION of this collection devoted to the organization of armies and the practices of warfare in antiquity: weaponry, combat formations, the use of infantry and cavalry, marches, and maneuvers. It is illustrated with a FRONTISPICE repeated at the beginning of each volume depicting a “Roman soldier on the march, taken from Trajan’s Column,” within a rocaille frame, and 16 PLATES (excluding title page), including a fold-out map. An edition published in The Hague appeared the same year, with the same collation. A BEAUTIFUL COPY, in fresh condition, with an 18th-century heraldic bookplate depicting a shield bearing a cross pattée, surmounted by a crown and a crest, accompanied by two male figures and the Latin motto “SIC CHRISTIANUS UT STRENUUS ” (“As Christian as he is valiant”), unidentified.
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