Montluc, Blaise de Lasseran-Massencome, seigneur de

Commentaires de messire Blaise de Montluc, mareschal de France, où sontdescrits les combats, recontres, escarmouches, batailles, sièges ...avecques plusieurs autres faicts de guerre signalez et remarquables ... TomePremier [... Tome Second]

Paris: Matthieu Le Blanc; Chez la veuve Remy Dallin, 1626 Beautiful copy of this early seventeenth-century edition of the celebrated Commentaries of Montluc on military themes, including battles, sieges, surprise attacks, and other aspects of sixteenth-century warfare. Montluc was a Gascon soldier of fortune and veteran of the Italian wars and the Wars of Regligion. Montluc’s book, first published in 1592, was praised by a fellow Gascon, Henry IV of France, as “the soldier‘s bible.” (an English translation was published in 1674) Uncommon in institutions (OCLC citing only one copy of a 1607 edition) 2 vols., 8vo. [7], 803; 602, [27] pp. Twentieth century full tan calf, boards stamped with crest, spine gilt with morocco labels, a.e.g. Minor rubbing at extremities, bottom inch of front joint in vol. I tender, else a fine set. Not in OCLC

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