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Essai sur l'art de la guerre / par M. le comte Turpin de Crissé, brigadier des armées du roi, & mestre de camp d'un régiment d'hussards.

Accession number
PML 45717-18
Creator
Turpin de Crissé, Lancelot, comte, 1716-1795.
Published
A Paris : Chez Prault fils l'aîné . [et] Jombert, 1754.
Credit line
Mrs. Shirley Falcke and Mrs. Cortlandt F. Bishop;
Description
2 v., 25 folded plans : ill. ; 30 cm
Notes
Title page engraving drawn by Francois Boucher. Head- and tail-pieces by Quentin-Pierre Chedel.
"Explication des vignettes & culs-de-lampes:" v.1, p. [7]-[8].
T.p. vignette engraved by Lalive de Jully ...
Binding
Red morocco, gilt, with the La Fayette arms, probably those of Michel-Louis-Christophe-Roch-Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, father of the Marquis of American Revolutionary War fame.
Provenance
With the regimental bookplate of the Bibliothèque du 3me. Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne; and the bookplates of Henri Lavedan and Cortlandt F. Bishop.
Classification
Century
Department