Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes

by Charles-Louis François de . - Louis-Marin Bonnet FossÉ

$3,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary tree calf, covers bordered in gilt, flat spine divided in compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers The first edition of a work of great importance to the history of the development of colour printing. One of the most successful eighteenth-century experiments in colour-printing, this is the only book illustrated by Bonnet, the inventor of pastel manner

• Binding: Leather

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