PUYSEGUR (Jacques François de CHASTENET maréchal de). Art de - Lot 17

PUYSEGUR (Jacques François de CHASTENET maréchal de). Art de la Guerre, par Principes et par Règles (...). Mis au jour par M. le Marquis de PUYSEGUR son Fils (...). A Paris, Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1748. 2 volumes in-folio, marbled half-calf with small corners, spine ribbed and decorated (modern imitation binding). Frontispiece portrait of the marshal engraved by DAULLE after TOURNIERE, large vignette on the title, headbands and tailpieces by COCHIN fils, engraved by SOUBEYRAN and AVELINE, title engraved by MARVYE after BAVEL for the second volume, 41 plates by BRUNET and MARVYE, most on double page or folded, including: suite de plans de manoeuvres et évolutions militaires, carte des environs de Paris (by La Grive), carte entre la Seine et la Loire, plans de bataille de Nordlingen une carte des environs de Fribourg. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MILITARY TREATISES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. In it, Marshal de Puységur sets out the principles and rules of troop formation and the movement of orders of battle, drawing on ancient texts and his contemporaries such as Turenne and Montecuculi. The second part revolves around ancient military campaigns and tactical scenarios supported by maps. Copy of Lord John MURRAY with his armorial bookplate. Son of the Duke of Atholl, John Murray (1711-1787) was a British general and former commander of several Highland regiments, including the 42nd Infantry Regiment (Black Watch); a veteran of the War of the Austrian Succession, he had served in all theaters of operation in Flanders. Dusty bottom corner, small worm's gallery at head edge of second volume.