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Les Reveries ou Memoires sur l'art de la Guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe Duc de Courlande et de Semigalle . par Mr. de Zacharie de Pazzi Bonnevile Capitaine Ingenieur de Campagne de Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse

1756237097a la Haye: Chez Pierre Gosse Junior Libr. de S.A.R. 1756. First edition. 40 plates several folding at the back. xii 228 4 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf worn covers detached. First edition. 40 plates several folding at the back. xii 228 4 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Saxe 1696-1750 was one of the great generals of the eighteenth century who distinguished himself in the Austrian war of succession 1740-1748. He was also the eldest of 350 illegitimate progeny of King Frederick Augustus of Poland. His book was translated into English in the following year and Thomas Jefferson had a copy in his library. OCLC: 10317148 Chez Pierre Gosse Junior, Libr. de S.A.R. unknown

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Esprit des Loix de la Tactique et de Différentes Institutions Militaires ou Notes de Mr. Le Maréchal de Saxe: contenant plusieurs nouveaux Systêmes sur l'Art de la Guerre. Commentées par M. de Bonneville. Avec un Mémoire Militaire sur les Tartares.

176256450Leipsig Weidmann 1762. 4to. Bound in one contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on foot of title-page. Title-pages in red/black. 2 large titlevignettes. 2XVI160;2196 pp. 56 double-page folded engraved plates. A few leaves with light marginal browning. Clean and fine. First edition. Jähns 1503. - Sloos. Warfare and the Age of Printing 3097. hardcover

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Les Reveries ou Memoires sur l'Art de la Guerre. Dediés a Messieurs les Officiers Generaux Par Mr. de Bonneville. Supplement.

175856274A la Haye Pierre Gosse 1758. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Light wear to foot of spine.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Title-page in red/black. Large engraved title-vignette. XII2284 pp. 16 pp. Supplement. With 61 mostly folded engraved plates. Profusely illustrated with head- and tailpieces. A large and wide-margined copy clean and printed on good paper. This profusely illustrated second edition has 21 more plates than the first from 1756. - Klaus Jordan 2617. hardcover

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Les Reveries ou Memoires sur l'Art de la Guerre. Dediés a Messieurs les Officiers Generaux Par Mr. de Bonneville.

175629302A la Haye Pierre Gosse 1756. Folio. Cont. hcalf. 6 raised bands. Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Lower compartment lightly worn and with faint remains of a tape-strip. Corners a bit bumped. Large engraved titlevignette 39 engraved and in wood-cut head-and tailpieces. VIII42282 pp. and 40 engraved maps and plans many double-page and folded. Printed on fine thick paper. Internally clean. Stamps on titlepage. One crowned stamp with "C.F." = King Christian VIII of Denmark and with his initials in ink "F.C.F. First edition. - Klaus Jordan No. 2618. hardcover

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Einfälle über die Kriegskunst. Herausgegeben vom Herrn von Bonneville. Aus dem Französischen ins Teutsche übersetzet von G.R. Faesch.

175756267Leipzig und Frankfurt Weidmannischen Handlung 1757. Folio. Contemp. full calf. raised bands. richly gilt compartments gilding weak. Titlelabel with lettering. With the royal monogram of king Frederik V in gold on red background on both covers. Minor scratches to covers. Stamp on titlepage. VIII80 pp. 40 engraved plates many double-page and folded. Clean and fine. First German edition. - Klaus Jordan No. 2623. hardcover

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Reveries or Memories upon the Art of War

175757281CELEBRATED GENERAL ON THE ART OF WAR first edition in English 4to. 2 title iii-x 2 dedication 195 1 advts.pp. 40 numbered engraved images on 34 folding plates attractive and sympathetic modern contemporary-style tan half calf by Brockman spine panelled by raised bands highlighted by double gilt fillets large blind tool at panel centres black morocco title label brown marbled sides hand-made paper endpapers title leaf a little dusty and with minor and almost invisible archival tissue reinforcement on verso at fore edge a few slight fox spots on fore-edge of plates else a nice fresh copy. A handsome copy. ESTC t97717 Maurice Comte de Saxe 1696-1750 one of the most notable and successful military commanders of the eighteenth century was an illegitimate son of Augustus II King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. He was engaged in and immersed in military engagements and soldiering from his early youth and served successively in the armies of the Holy Roman Empire the Austrian army and France with the title of Marshal General of French being specially revived for him in the last of these. Characteristic of his military methods were the use of surprise and of mobile warfare by harassing a superior force without head-on conflict until he was in a position to engage it in a decisive battle. The most celebrated of his victories the brilliant and decisive defeat of the English at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745 was an exemplar of his methods. His book on the art of war Mes Rêveries was first postumously published in 1757.In the book Saxe subjected military affairs to reasoned criticism with a view to creating military doctrines based on universal principles. "Written following Prussian expansion during the War of the Austrian Succession Saxe in the book rejected their rigid discipline; arguing the French character was fundamentally different and their tactics should reflect that he advocated the use of a deep order or ordre profond rather than relying on firearms. However Mes Rêveries also challenged French military orthodoxy in arguing for a greater focus on mobile warfare rather than fortifications; this was partly a legacy of the French military engineer Vauban 1633-1707 who had revolutionised this field but adherence to his principles meant French engineers became ultra-conservative. As early as 1701 John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough argued winning one battle was more beneficial than taking 12 fortresses; Saxe followed this line but his argument was later given increased weight by French losses in the 1756-1763 Seven Years' War" wikipedia. The Battle of Fontenoy on 11 May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession pitted the Pragmatic Allies - principally the Dutch British and Hanoverians - against the French which pitched two armies of about 50000 men against each other was notable for several reasons: both the British and French kings were present on the field of battle; it enabled further French victories; and in so doing it greatly reinforced the position of the French Ancien Régime. The battle was for a time closely fought but was swayed in French favour by the deployment of the Irish Brigades in the French army which in a celebrated counter attack swept a flank of English infantry from the field with great loss of life on both sides. They captured the English colours and 15 cannon and reputedly charged with the war-cry in Irish "Cuimhnigidh ar Luimnech agus feall na Sassonach!" that is "Remember Limerick and Saxon Perfidy". The casualty figures were appalling with at least 7000 killed or wounded on the French side including 500 Irish and between 10000 and 12000 on the allied side. Printed by J. Nourse hardcover

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Les reveries ou memoires sur l'art de la guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe Duc de Courlande et de Semigalle Maréchal-Général des Arme'es de S.M.T.C. &c. &c. &c. dediés a messieurs les officiers generaux . Edition aussi complette que la nouvelle edition de Paris en deux volumes in quarto de 1757

175825960La Haye: Pierre Gosse Junior 1758. Folio pp. xii 228 2 errata and binder's directions 2; 40 engraved plates 16 double page and 4 folding and 41 engraved vignettes; bound with: Bonneville Supplement aux Reveries ou Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe La Haye Chez Pierre Gosse 1758 pp. 15 1; 21 engraved plates 4 double page and one folding; contemporary red morocco-backed boards spine in 7 compartments black morocco label in 1 gilt ornaments in the rest; the boards with an overlay of 20th century pastepaper endpapers renewed. A standard work on warfare by Maurice Comte de Saxe 1696-1750 marshal of France son of the king of Poland conqueror of the English pretender to the dukedom of Kurland and universal lover here printed under the editorship of Zacharie de Pazzi de Bonneville. It is a remarkable work on the art of war. Though described by Carlyle as "a strange military farrago dictated as I should think under opium" it is in fact a classic. It was published posthumously in 1757. This is the only folio edition. Pierre Gosse Junior unknown

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Les rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre Reveries or Memoirs concerning the Art of War

175863209à La Haye The Hague: Chez Pierre Gosse Junior 1758. Fine. Chez Pierre Gosse Junior à La Haye The Hague 1758 24 x 35 cm In-folio relié Second edition a reprint of the first folio edition published in 1756 by the same publisher. A rare edition illustrated with 40 plates including 4 folding and 16 double-page arms costumes plans manoeuvres. Large vignette with coat of arms on the title-page and 41 ornaments headpieces tailpieces. Title-page printed in red and black. At the end Supplement aux Reveries with its own title-page; this short addition spanning only a few pages contains the corrections made to the original. A two-volume quarto edition appeared in Paris in 1757. Bound in later full marbled brown calf; a skilful early 20th-century pastiche signed Saingy at foot. Spine with raised bands richly decorated gilt rolls at head and tail. Red morocco lettering-piece black morocco date-piece gilt. Rubbing to head- and tailcaps edges corners and lower board. Plate XXXIV has been refolded having been badly folded. An exceptionally fresh copy the paper only slightly toned. One leaf misbound among the preliminary pages. A handsome copy. A unique work in its field animated throughout by the spirit of its author one of the greatest generals of the eighteenth century. The Comte de Saxe reviews all the factors and elements required for the successful conduct of battle from uniforms and provisions to strategy in a style that is simple clear and intelligible. This is followed by a chapter on the propagation of the human race intended to counterbalance the art of destroying populations; here the author offers his reflections on demographic growth and the means of fostering it. The term ""rêveries"" refers not in the modern sense of idle fancies but in that of fulfilled hopes and secret thoughts. Chez Pierre Gosse Junior hardcover

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ESPRIT DES LOIX DE LA TACTIQUE ET DE DIFFERENTES INSTITUTIONS MILITAIRES OU NOTES DE MR. LE MARECHAL DE SAXE: CONTENANT PLUSIEURS NOUVEAUX SYSTEMES SUR L'ART DE LA GUERRE. COMMENTEES PAR M. DE BONNEVILLE. AVEC UN MEMOIRE MILITAIRE SUR LES TARTARES & LES CHINOIS OU L'ON TROUVE UNE COMPARAISON DES OPERATIONS MILITAIRES DE CES DEUX NATIONS AVEC CE QUE LES HISTORIENS & COMMENTATEURS EUROPEENS ONT ECRIT D'INSTRUCTIF POUR LE GENS DE GUERRE.

17622240LA HAYE: Chez Pierre Gosse Junior 1762. Folio menor.- Plena piel lomera con nervios tejuelo y estampaciones dorados planos con ruedas dorados como filetes.- 2 tomos en 1 volumen.- I: Portadilla.- Portada a dos tintas y con grabado central.- XVI.- 160 páginas.- 37 láminas fuera de texto grabadas al cobre y plegadas.- II: Portadilla.- Portada a dos tintas y con grabado central.- 196 páginas.- Grabados del número 38 al 56. Posible segunda edición de esta ya clásica obra sobre Arte Militar. Sus 56 grabados al cobre dan a la obra una bella calcográfica poco común. Brunet y Gaesse solo citan la primera edición de 1756 Chez Pierre Gosse, Junior unknown

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KEATINGE, ESQ, MAURICE [TRANSLATOR FROM THE ORIGINAL SPANISH]Biblio.com

THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO BY CAPTAIN BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO ONE OF THE CONQUERORS. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1568

180054439London:: Printed For J. Wright Piccadilly By John Dean 1800. 1800. First edition in English. 4to. Translated from the original Spanish by Maurice Keatinge. Leather and boards viii 514 1 pp. frontispiece map preface. One of the most important firsthand accounts of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Written by Bernardo Diaz del Castillo a foot soldier who served under Hernan Cortes during the expedition that led to the fall of the Aztec Empire. The book covers the expedition from Cuba to Mexico in 1519; first encounters with Indigenous peoples along the Gulf Coast; the alliance with the Tlaxcalans; the march to Tenochtitlan; meetings between Cortes and Moctezuma II; the uprising in Tenochtitlan and the retreat known as the La Noche Triste; the siege and fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521; etc. The book provides detailed descriptions of Indigenous cities markets and customs; military operations and logistics; relationships among Spanish commanders; daily life of common soldiers; the cultural shock experienced by Europeans encountering Mesoamerican civilization; etc. Encyclopedia Britannica: "Bernal Diaz del Castillo 1495 – 1584 was a Spanish soldier and author who took part in the conquest of the Aztec nation. Diaz's account is written in an unassuming colloquial style and has both historical and artistic value." A.S.W. Rosenstock 19 #193: "All the later histories of America have acknowledged their debt to Bernal Diaz and his work has been acclaimed one of the most valuable source books of the period." The author was an original member of Cortez’s expedition to conquer the Aztec nation. He was involved in the initial planning stages all the way to its culmination. One of the most important sources on the conquest of the Aztec Empire and Mexico. The original leather spine label is missing but a new leather label approximating the original has been placed inside this copy. Retains the original leather boards which exhibit perimeter wear. Internally there are repairs to the hinges with some toning of the text but remarkably free of foxing. In all a very good copy. Printed For J. Wright, Piccadilly, By John Dean, 1800. hardcover

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Mes Rêveries.

175737954Amsterdam and Leipzig Arkstrée et Merkus; Paris Desaint and Saillant Durand 1757. First edition thus the Macclesfield copy of this influential 18th-century treatise on war by a renowned commander remembered above all for his decisive victory at Fontenoy in the War of the Austrian Succession after earlier service in the Imperial and French armies. Mes Rêveries was published after his death. "He puts forward his ideal military model his 'legion' and taking issue with the views and practices of his age he advances many original ideas. However rather than discussing his military doctrines the aim of this book is to elucidate the intellectual premises that dominated his mind: he saw a need to subject military affairs to reasoned criticism and intellectual treatment and the ensuing military doctrines were perceived as forming a definitive system" Gat The Origins of Military Thought p. 33. Carlyle called it a "strange military farrago dictated as I should think under opium" - a judgment not entirely unfair since a note on the Dresden manuscript reads: "I composed this work in Thirteen nights: I was ill therefore it may perhaps bear marks of the fever which I had. This ought to excuse the regularity of the arrangement as also the elegance of style. I wrote in a military manner and to kill time." Odd as its style may be the Rêveries proved successful reprinted three times in 1757 and again in 1761 and 1763 with German editions in 1757 and 1767 and English ones in 1757 1759 and 1776. 2 vols quarto 280 x 210 mm. 84 plates 37 of them folding 4 of them coloured wood-engraved head- and tailpieces. Contemporary sprinkled calf raised bands spine gilt in compartments with floral and foliate tools red morocco title piece green stained and gilt "numbering piece" gilt barred edge-roll green silk page-markers edges sprinkled in red. The Macclesfield copy with the Shirburn Castle blind stamp to the early leaves the copy of Lieutenant-General George Lane Parker younger son of the second earl who served for over 20 years in the 1st Foot Guards. In 1773 at rank of major-general he was appointed Colonel of the 20th Foot and saw service in the War of Independence. One of his contributions to the Shirburn Castle Library was a remarkable collection of books detailing the professional interests of a soldier in the latter part of the 18th century. Some light browning one plate slightly misfolded and standing proud at fore edge some light shelf-wear corners a little soft headcaps scuffed but overall a very good set. Jähns II 1502; Brunet V 174. hardcover

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[MAURICE, Thomas]Biblio.com

Indian Antiquities: or Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions The Pure System of Primeval Theology The Grand Code of Civil Laws The Original Form of Government and The Various and Profound Literature of Hindostan.

179270902London:: Printed for the Author and Sold by P. Elmsley 1792-1800. First edition. old mottled calf neatly rebacked retaining the original spines and gilt-lettered red labels. There is shallow chipping to the extremities of some of the spines; all volumes tight and sound. Some mis-folding to the plates and a few neat tissue repairs; generally contents very attractive. 8vo. Illustrated with thirty fine engraved plates many folding. Additional postage applicable for this multiple-volume set. Printed for the Author, and Sold by P. Elmsley, unknown

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DARTHE, Charles Joseph [MAURITIUS IMPRINT]Biblio.com

Le Préfet Apostolique aux Colons de l'Isle de France. The Apostolic Prefect to the Settlers of the Isle of France

178828431Au Port-Louis Isle de France: Imprimerie Royale Rue de l'Hôpital. Printed by François Nicolas Bolle b. 1741 1788. Folio. 12 3/4 x 8 inches. 2 pp. letterpress broadsheet printed on recto and verso on a blue laid paper with watermark and attractive printer's ornaments; a list of 12 steps numbered I-XII for establishing an Apostolic Bureau of Charity under a new governmental administration. Early Mauritius imprint printed at the dawn of the French Revolution from when the island was the French colony of Isle de France; this letterpress broadside a "fine specimen of the typographic art" announces the creation of an Apostolic Bureau of Charity. Toussaint Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius then known as the Isle de France. Isle de France was a French colony in the Indian Ocean from 1715 to 1810 comprising the African country in the Mascarene Islands now known as Mauritius and its dependent territories. It was governed by the French East India Company and formed part of the French colonial empire. Under the French the island witnessed major changes including the importation of enslaved people and the undertaking of vast infrastructural works that transformed the capital Port-Louis into a major center of international shipping warehousing and commerce. The present text contains twelve articles for establishing a Bureau de Charité for the island. The Bureau was announced by the Apostolic Prefect Charles Joseph Darthé who had been appointed by the Pope. Apostolic Prefects were Ecclesiastics representing the Holy See at the head of a territorial constituency in a mission country here being the Isle de France. Often when printing was introduced into a new land such as here clergy would be the only people with access to printing presses besides government officials. However Mauritius is something of an exception to this rule: "priests had little to do with printing . . . there is practically nothing worth recording in the way of religious publications." Toussaint The charitable plan laid out by the Prefect not unlike current-day means-tested social programs is almost absurdly complex in its bureaucratic levers and requirements. Pierre Saunois b. 1730 brought the first printing press to Mauritius in 1767. The first known imprint was a short poem by Saunois dedicated to the Dauphine of France Marie Josèphe de Saxe in 1768. The first newspaper and the first book a French-Malagasy phrase-book for missionaries appeared in 1773. During the French colonial period until the island's annexation by Britain in 1810 the output of Isle de France's early presses included besides a number of official publications several books of literary or scientific interest some of which were important enough to be commended by the Académie des Sciences an especially erudite series of almanacs written by Laurent Masson-Abraham from 1769 to 1794 and newspapers the earliest of which was issued in 1773. But also included were "quite a number of books and pamphlets representative of every branch of intellectual activity: scientific literary religious and political." Toussaint If one considers the small size of this island 710 square miles its isolated position and that its European population was barely 10000 strong in 1810 "its achievement in this field appears all the more remarkable." Toussaint About 400 imprints are extant of those that were produced in the Isle de France from 1768-1810; they are scattered in repositiories in Mauritius France and England the most important collection of which is the Mauritius Archives. All are rare. No copies of this broadside are located in OCLC and it was not recorded by Toussaint any of his bibliographies of Mauritius imprints. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton the Dutch abandoned the colony in 1710. The French soon claimed it as "Isle de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the nineteenth century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base and as a result the British took the island in 1810. The Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the twentieth century its agricultural production expanded to include tea rice and other crops. Bonnefoy Table General Alphabetqiue et Analytique p. 135. Daruty de Grandpré "L'Imprimerie aux Mascareignes et à Madagascar" Nouvelle Revue Historique et Littéraire de l'île Mauice No. 45 1902: pp. 455-456 and No. 46 1902: pp. 461-470. Toussaint Early Printing in the Mascarene Islands 1767-1810 passim; Early Printing in Mauritius Réunion Madagascar and the Seychelles pp. 11-34. Toussaint and Adolphe Bibliography of Mauritius 1502-1954 passim. Imprimerie Royale, Rue de l'Hôpital. Printed by François Nicolas Bolle (b. 1741) unknown

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Mes rêveries ouvrage posthume Reveries on the Art of War

175775650A Amsterdam & à Leipzig: Chez Arkstée et Merkus 1757. Fine. Finest edition of this work Chez Arkstée et Merkus A Amsterdam & à Leipzig 1757 21.50 x 29 cm In-4 2 volumes reliés The finest edition of this work the original having appeared in 1756. It comprises 84 plates 61 of which are folding compared to only 40 in the original engraved in intaglio by Moitte Patte and Tardieu depicting military costumes plans and profiles and troop formations. Published by Abbé Perau this edition is augmented with a biography 134pp. and several pieces letters. it is better organized and superbly printed in large type. Contemporary full marbled and glazed calf binding. Decorated raised spine head and tail rolls. Red morocco title label and volume label. Double gilt fillet frame on boards. One tear at tail. One lower corner cut on volume 1. Small lack at head of volume II. One corner bumped on volume II. One scratch on upper board of volume II. One plate protruding in volume I and 2 in volume II caused by improper folding. Despite some minor defects a very handsome copy. A unique work in its field the book shines with the author's animating spirit. The Count of Saxe reviews all the factors all the elements necessary for successful conduct of battles from uniforms to food to strategy to spies in a simple clear and intelligible style. This is followed by the chapter on the propagation of the human species intended to counterbalance the art of destroying populations; the author shares his thoughts on demographic proliferation and the means of increasing it. The term ""rêveries"" refers not to the modern sense of ramblings but to that of realized hopes and secret thoughts. Marshal de Saxe was one of the most illustrious military men of his century; he develops in his work the quasi-utopian vision of a military art proposing new solutions both tactical and practical a new uniform for running more quickly. Chez Arkstée et Merkus hardcover

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Les Reveries ou Memoires Sur L’Art de la Guerre

17567435Les Reveries ou Memoires Sur L'Art de la Guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe Duc de Courlande et de Semigalle Marechal-General des Armées de S.M.T.C. &c. &c. &c. Dediés a Messieurs les Officiers Generaux. Par Mr. de Bonneville Capitaine Ingenieur de Campagne de Sa Maheste le Roi de Prusse. Illustrated with 40 full-page and folding plates and 42 engraved vignettes. Folio. Bound in full mid-18th century English paneled calf expertly rebacked with raised bands and morocco spine label. A La Haye Chez Pierre Gosse Junior . . . 1756. First Edition.Maurice Comte de Saxe was the greatest French military general of the 18th century. Having been born as the illegitimate son of Augustus II King of Poland he eventually rose to become Marshall of France. His greatest exploits came during the War of the Austrian Succession where he seized Prague by surprise in a daring invasion captured the fortress of Eger Cheb and gained his famous victory at Fontenoy. The latter made possible the 1745 Jacobite rising and was credited by Napoleon with preserving the Ancien Regime in France for a further 30 years.Saxe's Reveries is one of the great classics of 18th century military strategy and theory. "He puts forward his ideal military model his 'legion' and taking issue with the views and practices of his age he advances many original ideas. However rather than discussing his military doctrines the aim of this book is to elucidate the intellectual premises that dominated his mind: he saw a need to subject military affairs to reasoned criticism and intellectual treatment and the ensuing military doctrines were perceived as forming a definitive system." Gat Origins of Military Thought.With the bookplate of the United Service Institution presented by Major General Samuel Lambert. Samuel Lambert served with distinction in the campaign under Sir John Moore in 1808-09 and in the expedition to Walcheren in the later year. He was engaged in the defense of Cadiz in 1810 - 1811 and served throughout the peninsular campaigns of 1812 1813 and 1814. He died in 1848 while serving as Commander of Her Majesty's Forces in Jamaica. Minor wear to binding at edges and corners; o/w a fine wide-margined copy.

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Le Gouverneur-General. Aux Habitants de l'Isle de France. The Governor-General. To the Inhabitants of Isle of France

1796284281796. Small quarto. 8pp. Loose sheets. Contemporary manuscript notations. Moderately soiled and worn. Final page loose torn in center of text with minor loss. Early imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France. The text deals with the Governor's reserve powers; it is signed in type by Governor Magallon. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton the Dutch abandoned the colony in 1710. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base and as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers though there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC; Toussaint locates a copy at the Mauritius Archives. Toussaint A298. Toussaint Early Printing in Mauritius Réunion Madagascar and the Seychelles p. 17. unknown

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Johannes Mauritius (1660-1720).Biblio.com

Zeege-pralende lof-tooneel der vrouwelyke sexe tegen dat vuyl en leelyk A B C vol hatelyke namen der vrouwen uytgebraakt van de Papen â€¦ om haar huwelijks-verbod te styven en een yder die sy in 't klooster lokken willen af te schrikken van den huwelyken staat.

1704220248 378 12 pp. With an engraved frontispiece.Contemporary mottled calf with ribbed and gold-tooled spine sprinkled edges.Rare first and only edition of a peculiar and polemical work which uses a female abecedarium to attack Catholic invective against women. Arranged alphabetically—from Avidum animal to Zelus Zelotipus—the author ironically surveys women's wit eloquence moral qualities and physical appearance combining satire polemic and learned rhetoric. The book also offers insight into early-eighteenth-century Protestant debates on marriage gender and Catholic religious culture. The author was an Amsterdam merchant and former Catholic priest who converted to Calvinism and became known for his vehemently anti-Catholic writings often directed against monastic life and clerical celibacy. Zeege-pralende lof-tooneel der vrouwelyke sexe must be read within this broader religious and ideological agenda: Johannes Mauritius presents Catholic denunciations of women as a deliberate strategy employed by "the Papists" to justify the prohibition of marriage and to lure men into the cloister. He was the father of the prodigy poet jurist and later Suriname governor Joan Jacob Mauricius 1692–1768 whose early intellectual development was shaped by his father's militant anti-Catholicism and literary ambitions.Condition: corners slightly bumped front joint splitting. Small faint stain on the first few pages see pictures. Otherwise in very good condition.Reference: Muller 482; De Vries 190; Scheepers I 452. Johannes Strander

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Mes Reveries. Ouvrage Posthume de Maurice Comte de Saxe Duc de Curlande et de Semigalle Marechal des Armees de sa Majeste Tres-Chretienne. Augmente d'une Histoire abregee de sa vie et de differentes Pieces qui y ont rapport par M. L'Abbe Perau. THE INVERQUHARITY COPY: REMARKABLY FRESH CRISP ISSUE WITH HAND-COLOURED PLATES

175751567Arkstee et Merkus Amsterdam and Liepzig 1757. 2 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition Large Paper text in French on laid paper with 84 fine engraved plates 52 large and folding ALL BUT TWO FINELY COLOURED BY HAND and numerous fine engraved head- and tail-pieces title and first Avertissement leaf of first volume creased; contemporary full tree calf sides framed in gilt backs with raised bands second and fourth compartments with red leather labels framed lettered and numbered in gilt all other compartments richly framed and tooled in gilt with floral sprays red sprinkled edges boards mildly age-marked upper joint of first volume cracked but sound all other joints mildly rubbed but bindings wholly sound A REMARKABLY BRIGHT FRESH CLEAN CRISP COPY WITH BROAD MARGINS IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING. With the eighteenth century personal bookplate of Steuart of the Isle of Man overlaid by the nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Sir John Ogilvy of Inverquharity on front paste-downs. From the broad margins this may well be a Large Paper or similar superior issue. The later bookplate is that of Sir John Ogilvy 9th Baronet 1803-1890 sometime MP for Dundee and Convener of Forfarshire. De Saxe 1696-1750 was a distinguished soldier of the first half of the eighteenth century serving first the Holy Roman Empire and then the Imperial Army before French service as Marshal General of France. He is remembered for his victories during the Austrian Succession most notably at Fontenoy in 1745 and for this most influential military treatise published shortly after his death. A SPLENDID COPY WITH NOTABLE PROVENANCE. Jähns II 1502; Brunet V 174. Arkstee et Merkus, Amsterdam and Liepzig, hardcover

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Les Reveries ou Memoires sur l'art de la Guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe Duc de Courlande et de Semigalle . par Mr. de Zacharie de Pazzi Bonnevile Capitaine Ingenieur de Campagne de Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse

Esprit des Loix de la Tactique et de Différentes Institutions Militaires ou Notes de Mr. Le Maréchal de Saxe: contenant plusieurs nouveaux Systêmes sur l'Art de la Guerre. Commentées par M. de Bonneville. Avec un Mémoire Militaire sur les Tartares.

Les Reveries ou Memoires sur l'Art de la Guerre. Dediés a Messieurs les Officiers Generaux Par Mr. de Bonneville. Supplement.

Les Reveries ou Memoires sur l'Art de la Guerre. Dediés a Messieurs les Officiers Generaux Par Mr. de Bonneville.

Einfälle über die Kriegskunst. Herausgegeben vom Herrn von Bonneville. Aus dem Französischen ins Teutsche übersetzet von G.R. Faesch.

Reveries or Memories upon the Art of War

Les reveries ou memoires sur l'art de la guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe Duc de Courlande et de Semigalle Maréchal-Général des Arme'es de S.M.T.C. &c. &c. &c. dediés a messieurs les officiers generaux . Edition aussi complette que la nouvelle edition de Paris en deux volumes in quarto de 1757

Les rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre Reveries or Memoirs concerning the Art of War

THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO BY CAPTAIN BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO ONE OF THE CONQUERORS. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1568

Mes Rêveries.

Indian Antiquities: or Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions The Pure System of Primeval Theology The Grand Code of Civil Laws The Original Form of Government and The Various and Profound Literature of Hindostan.

Le Préfet Apostolique aux Colons de l'Isle de France. The Apostolic Prefect to the Settlers of the Isle of France

Mes rêveries ouvrage posthume Reveries on the Art of War

Les Reveries ou Memoires Sur L’Art de la Guerre

Le Gouverneur-General. Aux Habitants de l'Isle de France. The Governor-General. To the Inhabitants of Isle of France

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