Les Reveries ou Memoires Sur L’Art de la Guerre
by Maurice Comte de Saxe
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About This Item
Illustrated with 40 full-page and folding plates, and 42 engraved vignettes. Folio. Bound in full mid-18th century English paneled calf, expertly rebacked with raised bands and morocco spine label. A La Haye, Chez Pierre Gosse, Junior, . . . 1756. First Edition.
Maurice Comte de Saxe was the greatest French military general of the 18th century. Having been born as the illegitimate son of Augustus II, King of Poland, he eventually rose to become Marshall of France. His greatest exploits came during the War of the Austrian Succession, where he seized Prague by surprise in a daring invasion, captured the fortress of Eger (Cheb), and gained his famous victory at Fontenoy. The latter made possible the 1745 Jacobite rising and was credited by Napoleon with preserving the Ancien Regime in France for a further 30 years.
Saxe's Reveries is one of the great classics of 18th century military strategy and theory. "He puts forward his ideal military model, his 'legion,' and taking issue with the views and practices of his age, he advances many original ideas. However, rather than discussing his military doctrines, the aim of this book is to elucidate the intellectual premises that dominated his mind: he saw a need to subject military affairs to reasoned criticism and intellectual treatment, and the ensuing military doctrines were perceived as forming a definitive system." (Gat, Origins of Military Thought).
With the bookplate of the United Service Institution, presented by Major General Samuel Lambert. Samuel Lambert served with distinction in the campaign under Sir John Moore in 1808-09, and in the expedition to Walcheren in the later year. He was engaged in the defense of Cadiz in 1810 - 1811, and served throughout the peninsular campaigns of 1812, 1813 and 1814. He died in 1848 while serving as Commander of Her Majesty's Forces in Jamaica. Minor wear to binding at edges and corners; o/w a fine wide-margined copy.Reviews
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- George Robert Minkoff, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7435
- Title
- Les Reveries ou Memoires Sur L’Art de la Guerre
- Author
- Maurice Comte de Saxe
- Format/Binding
- Full mid-18th century English paneled calf
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Date Published
- 1756
- Size
- Folio
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- (MILITARY SCIENCE).
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