Le parfait aide de camp, où l'on traite de ce que doit sçavoir tout jeune militaire qui se propose de faire son chemin à la guerre; avec des notes sur différens ouvrages de campagne, & sur les plans des principaux camps de guerres de 1740 & 1756. Ensemble la description d'un instrument nouveau pour lever promptement toutes sortes de plans. Ouvrage enrichi de 55 planches.

8vo: 30 pp. (in oblong format, folding); 56 pl. (some spotting).

19th-c. red sheep, boards with large central gilt arms within double gilt frame, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, green leather title label, gilt sides, red edges, marbled endpapers (borders unfresh, corners lightly bumped, head, tail & joints rubbed). Good copy.

Very rare only edition of this manual for young soldiers and officers aspiring to elevate themselves in the placement and setting up of military camps, written by the "ingénieur-géographe" of King Louis XV, G.-L. Le Rouge (1712-1790). Complete with the 56 double-page engraved plates (numbered 1-55, 2 maps with n. 50) showing how to set up camp and many unique plans of 18th-c. military camps and their surroundings, i.a. in Leuven, Rekem, Melisse "Entre Vilvorde et Dendermunde" (Malderen, 2 plans), Menen (2) and Veurne in Belgium, in Sint-Pieter near Maastricht and numerous camps in Germany, i.a. Hannover, Jülich, Düsseldorf, Erkelenz, Trier, etc. First 4 pl. partly coloured. Without the list of plates.
Ref. Jordan 2168. - BnF.
Prov. Count Godefroy de Montgrand (1822-1897) (large gilt stamped arms on covers and arm. bookpl., with motto "Esperance").