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Small 8vo (165 × 105 mm), pp. [vi], 276, [9], perhaps wanting a frontispiece drawing before title. Attractive calligraphic title, headings and tailpiece, neat manuscript (in French) in brown ink on paper. A few later (but early) underlinings. Contemporary mottled calf, plain spine with 5 raised bands. Head and foot of spine chipped. Slightly later ownership inscriptions (de Schwartz) and 19th-century bibliographical notes, modern bookplate of Armand Gritton.
An attractive seventeenth-century military manuscript, a very early copy of Chastelet’s Traité de la Guerre, neatly executed, and conforming to the pagination of the first printed edition quite precisely - the printed version containing 277 pages. A later bibliographical note to the endpaper asserts that this must “sans aucune doute” be Giard’s manuscript for his edition. This is perhaps unlikely: early manuscript copies of hard-to-come-by imprints are an important (if under-appreciated) aspect of the contemporary circulation of new books. Chastelet’s treatise (dedicated to the King) covers all aspects of war: types of troops, garrisons, ranks, invasion, battle, morale, treatment of casualties, defence, sieges, sea warfare, civil wars, discipline, military law, espionage and treaties.
£750.00
(equal to approx. US$1187.61* or €927.53* for 22 May 2012)
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