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SAXE, (Marshal Maurice, Count of). *Les Rêveries, or Memoirs on the Art of War*, by Maurice, Count of Saxe,... dedicated to the General Officers, by Mr. de Bonneville... The Hague: Pierre Gosse, 1756. Folio. 15 pp., 2 ff., 217-(3) pp.; 22 fold-out copperplate engravings (out of 40). Reused half-vellum binding, title label. Ex libris. First edition. Incomplete copy: missing the half-title page, some of the endpapers, 18 engraved plates, and the last ten pages containing *Reflections on the Propagation of the Human Race*. Famous military treatise theorizing on the recruitment, maintenance, and training of troops, followed by the coordination of infantry and cavalry, fortification and entrenchment, and finally the qualities required of generals EXPERT: Mr. GIARD