Les travaux de Mars, ou L'art de la guerre [...]. Tome premier.

8vo: [26]-363-[5] pp. (2 tiny holes through preface).

Mod. quarter leather, marbled paper on covers, gilt titled spine with 5 raised bands, decor. endpapers. Inside, a good copy.

First part only of the 2nd enlarged and revised ed. (1st 1671) of this profusely illustrated military treatise on war and military engineering by the French military engineer and cartographer A. Manesson-Mallet (1630-1706). Engr. ill.: front., 2 full-page portraits of Louis XIV (by P. Giffart) and the author (by P. Landry), and 152 nice engravings showing small maps and panoramic views of European towns i.a. Douai, Arras, La Rochelle, Ath, Lisbon, Breda, Barcelona, Paris, Venice, Dunkirk, Furnes, Antwerp, Nieuwpoort, Dixmude, etc., fortifications, military equipment & costumes, etc. Plate 151 printed upside down.
Ref. Brunet III:1343. - BnF.
Prov. "P. Despot" (ms. entry on front.). - Mod. ms. entry on flyleaf.