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220 - POLYBE and FOLARD, Jean-Charles.
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POLYBE and FOLARD, Jean-Charles. A Summary of M. de Folard’s Commentaries on Polybius’s History. Paris, Veuve Gandouin, Giffart, David, Jombert and Durand, 1754. In-4 (25 x 19.5 cm), marbled calfskin, ribbed spine decorated with panels. Red edges. Contemporary binding. 3 vols.: x-(2)-xlviii-421-(3) pp. – 477 pp. – 384-(3) pp.; numerous plates. Bindings damaged. Slight water stains and wormholes in the margins of volume 3. First edition, richly illustrated, of the abridgement of the famous commentaries by the Chevalier de Folard, compiled by the Comte de Chabot. A military man and strategist, Folard went on to become a garrison commander and Mestre de camp; Folard’s aim (he was nicknamed the ‘French Vegetius’) was to develop his ideas by commenting on Polybius’s text. The work contains the famous ‘Treatise on the Column’, a military formation of which Folard was the inventor, and the ‘Treatise on the Attack and Defence of Ancient Strongholds’.
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