Comte Turpin de Crissé - Essai sur l'Art de la Guerre. Turpin de Crissé. - 2 vols. - 1754

Paris. Brigadier des Armées du Roi, & Mestre de Camp d'un Régiment d'Hussards. Paris. Impr. Prault Jombert. 1754. 1st edition. 2 volumes. 29x21 cm. Vol. I, half-title, title page, 2 leaves. 443 pages, vignettes & tail-pieces. * Vol. II, 204 pages, 1 leaf of privileges + 21 leaves explaining the plates + 25 large folded plates, vignettes & tail-pieces. Fully leather-bound, period, somewhat cracked at the edges, with raised bands, endbands, spine studded with gold tools; silk ribbons, painted edges, watered fly-leaves, a large heraldic ex-libris, signature. Very ample margins and very clean. An extraordinary copy.