Histoire de la Milice Francoise, Et des changemens qui s’y sont faits depuis l’establissement de la Monarchie Francoise dans les Gaules, jusqu’a la fin du Regne de Louis Le Grand

by Father Gabriel Daniel

$1,700 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Paris: Denis Mariette, et al., 1721. 2 vols., 4to., xxxviii, 626 pp.; xx, 770 pp., 70 plates including one engraved map of Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea vol. 2 . Contemporary rebacked full calf, red edges, internally bright with minor foxing; very good. § First edition of this extensive history of the French military, from the founding of the French Monarchy to the end of the reign of King Louis XIV. Plates depict arms and armor, fortified cities,

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