Military Strategy - Thuillier (Dom Vincent) & Folard (Jean C...

Hammer

£170

Military Strategy - Thuillier (Dom Vincent) & Folard (Jean Charles, Chevalier), Histoire de Polybe [...], volumes I-III only, Amsterdam: Chez. Arkstée et Merkus, 1774, title-pages printed in red and black, volume I with engraved frontispiece, each volume with full-page and some fold-out b/w engraved plates of martial scenes, including fortifications, siege warfare, military and battle manoeuvres and personnel, artillery and some weapons, some in-text illustrations, engraved title-page and chapter vignettes, some Rococo woodcut headers, early 19th century wrappers, 4to, [3]

Provenance: Bibliothèque des Officiers - Metz, the French Army's artillery school, their later 19th century library stamps.