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95 - [MILITARIA]. MAUBERT DE GOUVEST (Jean-Henri).
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[MILITARIA]. MAUBERT DE GOUVEST (Jean-Henri). MILITARY MEMOIRS ON THE ANCIENTS. Or A Detailed Account of Everything the Ancients Have Written Concerning the Art of War. Compiled and arranged by Mr Maubert de Gouvest. Brussels, 1762. Two volumes in 12mo, marbled fawn calf, smooth spines divided by fillets and decorated with gilt fleurons, red morocco title labels and brown volume numbers, red edges (contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION of this collection devoted to the organisation of armies and the practices of warfare in Antiquity: armament, battle formations, the deployment of infantry and cavalry, marches and manoeuvres. It is illustrated with a FRONTISPICE, repeated at the head of each volume, depicting a ‘Roman soldier on the march, taken from Trajan’s Column’, within a rocaille frame, and 16 PLATES (excluding title page), including a fold-out map. An edition published in The Hague appeared in the same year, with the same collation. A FINE COPY, in fresh condition, with an 18th-century heraldic ex-libris depicting a shield bearing a cross pattée, surmounted by a crown and a crest, accompanied by two male figures and the Latin motto ‘SIC CHRISTIANUS UT STRENUUS ’ (‘As Christian as he is valiant’), unidentified.
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