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‎La Tactique ou L'Art de ranger des Bataillons et de faire faire a une Armée en Campagne tous les Mouvemens qui conviennent selon les différentes Occasions.‎

‎A la Haye, van Duren, 1740. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved titlevignette. (10),359,(1) pp., 12 folded engraved plates. a few plates with a brownspot in upper part. ‎

‎First edition.‎

‎La Tactique ou L'Art de ranger des Bataillons et de faire faire a une Armée en Campagne tous les Mouvemens qui conviennent selon les différentes Occasions.‎

‎A la Haye, van Duren, 1740. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. The engraved frontispiece lacks. Engraved titlevignette. (10),359,(1) pp., 12 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎Etat de la France dans lequel on voit tout ce qui regarde le gouvernement ecclésiastique, le militaire, la justice, les finances, le commerce, les manufactures, le nombre des habitans, & en général tout ce qui peut faire connoître à fond cette monarch...‎

‎London, T. Wood & S. Palmer, 1727. Folio (350 x 240 mm). Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. A few scratches to to spines and boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. All edges coloured in red. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. Internally very fine and clean. (4), 14, XXVII, (3), 182, (2), 38, (5) pp. + folded map of France" (2), 581, (5) pp.‎

‎A fine set of the first two volumes (out of three) of Boulainvillier's posthumously published work on various aspects of the French monarchy during the early 18th century.""BOULAINVILLIERS, HENRI, Comte de (1658–1722), French political writer, was born at St Saire in Normandy in 1658. He was educated at the college of Juilly, and served in the army until 1697. He wrote a number of historical works (published after his death), of which the most important were the following: Histoire de l’ancien gouvernement de la France (La Haye, 1727)" État de la France, avec des mémoires sur l’ancien gouvernement (London, 1727) Histoire de la pairie de France (London, 1753)" Histoire des Arabes (1731). His writings are characterized by an extravagant admiration of the feudal system. He was an aristocrat of the most pronounced type, attacking absolute monarchy on the one hand and popular government on the other. He was at great pains to prove the pretensions of his own family to ancient nobility, and maintained that the government should be entrusted solely to men of his class. He died in Paris on the 23rd of January 1722."" (Encyclopedia Britannica).‎

‎Voyage d'Italie de Monsieur Misson, avec un Mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le même voyage. Cinquième édition, plus ample et plus correcte que les précédentes, enrichie de nouvelles figures... 4 vols. - [BEAUTIFUL TRAVEL GUIDE TO ITALY]‎

‎Utrech, Guillaume van Water & Jacques van Poolsum, 1722. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 4 magnificent contemporary full calf Cambridge-style bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Gilt frames to boards and blind-tooled ornamentation to edges of boards. Boards with wormtracts, primarily affecting vol. IV. Small wormtract effecting frist half of vol. III. An overall nice set. (46), 339, (20) pp. + 32 folded plates (including frontispiece) 356, (24) + 39 engraved plates 414, (19) pp. + 7 plates. (6), 347, (7) pp. + 1 ‎

‎Fourth edition of this important and influential travel-guide to Italy. Misson travelled through Italy during 1687 and 1688, and in 1691 published the Nouveau voyage d'ltalie, which was to be the standard travel guide to Italy for the following fifty years. Provenance: From a large Danish estate. ‎

‎Voyages autour du Monde entrepris par Ordre de sa Majesté Britannique, actuellement regnante, Pour faire des Découvertes dans L'Hémisphère Austral. Exécutés successivement par le Chef d'Escadre Byron, les Capitaines Wallis, Carteret & Cook, dans...‎

‎Amsterdam, Rotterdam, E. van Harrevelt, Henry Beman, 1774. 4to. Bound in 4 cont. full mottled calf. 6 raised bands, gilt titlelabels. Backs a little rubbed, some cracking to leather along hinges, but covers not detached. Corners bumped. Ocasionally somewhat brownspotted, a few tears in plates (no loss). A few corners dampstained. With all 4 halftitles. (8),XXXII,388 - (6),536 - (6),394 - VIII,367,(3) pp. and 52 engraved plates, mostly large and folded, among these are 28 folded maps. (all). ‎

‎ First French edition of Cooke's first travel, a title-issue identical with the Paris-edition from the same year, only with a different title-page and a printed Privilege in Dutch for the Dutch publisher. It is the 4to-edition, not one of the 8vo -editions published the same year. - Sabin 30941. ‎