Tableau général de la cavalerie grecque, composé de deux mémoires & d'une traduction du traité de Xénophon, intitulé Le commandant de la cavalerie [...] & précédé d'un Mémoire sur la guerre considérée comme science.

JOLY de MAIZEROY, Paul Gédéon

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Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1780

4to: [4]-154-iij-[1 bl.] pp. (paper age-toned and spotted).

Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt flat spine, red edges (rubbed, joints splitting, head and tail def.). Good copy.

Treatise on the cavalry by the French officer Joly (1719-1780), with a French translation of Xenophons "Hipparchus". 1st ed. of the "Mémoire sur la guerre". The two first "mémoires" and the translation of Xenophon's treatise were first publ. in the "Mémoires de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres" (vol. 41, 1780). Woodcut royal arms on title. Inset pasted on the imprint ("Et se trouve à Paris, Chez Moutard").
Ref. Conlon 80:1201. - Mennessier de La Lance I:694. - Almirante 436. - Hoffmann III:806.
Prov. Valette, "gendarme du roy" (ms. mention). - "Empl." [?] Luneville, 17-09-1784 (id.).