1757 ENGLISH Military Reveries 1ed Saxe Austrian Succession Art of WAR Maps RARE

1757 ENGLISH Military Reveries 1^ed Saxe Austrian Succession Art of WAR Maps RARE

Maurice de Saxe was an 18^th-century European military hero best-known for serving both the Holy Roman Empire and the French Imperial Army. Though perhaps his best and most memorable military feats occurred under Louis XV where he played an important role in the War of the Austrian Succession.

This 1757 first English edition of the works of Maurice de Saxe was published in London and includes his most important work ‘Mes Reveries’. This work was Saxe’s book on the art of war written after the Austrian War of Succession. It was met with resistance from many within the French military due to his views on the unnecessary use of fortifications.

Note the 40 impressive engravings!

Item number: #24370

Price: $950

SAXE Maurice de

Reveries, or Memoirs upon the art of war

London: Printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, 1757 First English edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [2], x, 195, [1]
  • 40 engravings (on 34 leaves)
• References: ESTC T 97717
• Provenance:
  • Handwritten – Octavius Sturges, 1847
    • Octavius Sturges (1833–1894) was a British pediatrician who coined the term “chorea”. He attended Addiscombe Military Seminary and served two years in the army as an officer in the East India Company in Bombay before being misdiagnosed with an aortic aneurysm, after which he returned to England to study medicine.
  • Armorial bookplate – Thomas Francis Fremantle
    • Thomas Francis Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe, 3rd Baron Fremantle (1830–1918), was a British businessman and Conservative politician. He was also the grandson of Vice-Admiral Thomas Fremantle and Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle, the diarist. He curated the Cottesloe Military Library, which included works from the earliest printed books through the rise of Napoleon, exclusively discussing military theory, weaponry, and tactics.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~10.25in X 8.5in (26cm x 21.5cm)

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