Instruction Militaire du Roi de Prusse pour Ses Généraux. Traduite de l'Allemand, par Monsieur Faesch, Lieutenant-Colonel dans les Troupes Saxonnes.
[n.p.]: 1761.
Price: $450.00
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Avec XIII Planches gravées en Taille-douce [most folding], bound at the end. xii, 201 [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, red leather label, marbled endpapers, engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown, all edges red. Fine, plates clean and fresh.
Item #55837
French translation of Frederick's The Great's Instructions, written in 1747. They were printed in limited numbers in Berlin in 1753 and captured by the Austrians in 1760. Thereafter published by the Austrians, and, as here, in French, by Georg Rudolph Faesch. An English translation first appeared the following year. OCLC locates only five copies of this edition.
