TURPIN DE CRISSÉ (Lancelot de). Essay on the art of war. Paris, Prault fils l'Aîné, Jombert, 1754. 2 volumes in one vol. in-4, 21 x 27.5 cm, 4 ff. 444 pp. 18 ff. 22 folded plates & 2 ff. 4 + 204 pp. 4 + 1 ff. 3 folded plates, contemporary binding in marbled fawn calf, gilt arms on boards, spine ribbed with gilt motifs.
First edition illustrated with 25 fine engraved plates. Vignette on the titles, engraved by the financier La Live de Jully after François Boucher.
A hussar officer during the German campaign, Comte de Turpin de Crissé (1716-1795) was promoted to lieutenant general in 1780.
A copy bearing the coat of arms of the Chambre littéraire de la ville de Nantes, which became the cercle Louis XVI in 1878 (red wet stamp on the title of the first volume and small red wet stamp in the margin of a few plates). Binding restored, spine very rubbed.
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