1689 Scarce French First Edition - The Art of War - L'Art de la Guerre by le Sieur Louis de Gaya.
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Author: Par le Sieur de Gaya, Capitaine au Regiment de Champagne. (Louis de Gaya).
Title: L'Art de la guerre et la maniere dont on la fait aujourd'huy en France. Avec un nouvelle methode d'exercer & de conduire les Troupes. Ouvrage Tres - Utile pour les jeunes Officiers de Cavalerie, d'Infanterie, de Dragons, & de Milice. Dedie au Roy.
Publisher: A Paris, Chez Estienne Michallet, 1689. First Edition.
Language: Text in French
Publisher: A Paris, Chez Estienne Michallet, 1689. First Edition.
Size: 6" X 4".
Pages: 193 pages.
Binding: Good contemporary full calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright, tight, rare foxing and staining mainly on the outer margin of some pages - as shown, previous owner name on the second blank page - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the five full-page plates and the two full-page diagrams.
Publisher: A Paris, Chez Estienne Michallet, 1689. First Edition.
Size: 6" X 4".
Pages: 193 pages.
Binding: Good contemporary full calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright, tight, rare foxing and staining mainly on the outer margin of some pages - as shown, previous owner name on the second blank page - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the five full-page plates and the two full-page diagrams.
Estimate : (USD 500 - USD 800)
The book: Scarce Complete First Edition, with the plates and the diagrams, of the Art of War by Louis de Gaya. This rare gem is a testament to the military strategies and practices of France during the reign of Louis XIV.
The author: "Louis de Gaya was a 17th-century historian and nobleman of France.
Louis de Gaya was Lord of Treville and captain of a Champagne regiment, who lived under the reign of Louis XIV of France.
As a writer, he left several works written on the art of war, treaty of arms, wedding ceremonies, genealogy, and nobility."