Les Stratagêmes de Guerre,

DE LA ROZIERE (M. [Louis-François] Carlet, [Marquis])

Les Stratagêmes de Guerre,

de sont servis les Plus Grands Capitaines du Monde, depuis plusieurs Siècles jusqu’à la Paix derniere. Ouvrage tiré de l’Histoire & des Mémoires Particuliers. 12mo. Light browning throughout, occasional light foxing, near contemporary pencil annotations and, inevitably, long division to the endpapers, but overall very good in contemporary full mottled calf, a little worn, joints cracking, corners exposed, head-cap pulled, tail-cap chipped, but overall sound and about very good. viii, 229pp. [3pp.] Table, a number of mispaginations, but complete. Cl. J Baptiste Bauche, Paris, 1756.

£350.00

Uncommon, four copies on OCLC and a single copy, at the National Library of Australia, on RLIN.

A collection of Military Ruses and Strategems drawn from the lives of Great Captains and illustrative of uses of subterfuge in War. Compiled by the founder of the Engineering College at Mézières. de la Roziere served in Italy and Flanders in 1745 and was in charge of fortifications in the East Indies in 1750. On his return to France he served in the Seven Years’ War, captured at Rossbach. He was the author of accounts of the campaigns of Condé and Crequy.

Contemporary ownership inscription of “Angel[o] Montenari, Capte.” to the title page.

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