FOSSÉ (Charles-Louis-François de).

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FOSSÉ (Charles-Louis-François de).
Ideas of a military man in the disposition of troops entrusted to young officers in the defense and attack of small posts. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de France, Ambroise Firmin Didot, Alexandre Jombert jeune, 1783. 2 parts in one volume in-4, blue paper boards, untrimmed (period binding). First edition of this treatise on military strategy, dedicated to the duc du Châtelet, lieutenant-general of the King's armies. Remarkable illustration engraved in colors "en manière de pastel" by Louis-Marin Bonnet (1736-1793), artist who defined himself here - wrongly - as the "first engraver in this genre": a vignette with the arms of the dedicatee and 11 plates of plans engraved after the author's drawings. A chapter of the work concerns the use of colors for the washes of the plans. Copy in contemporary waiting cardboard. Small worm gallery filled in the upper margin of six leaves. Some light spotting.
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