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Les rêveries ou mémoires sur l'art de la guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe, Duc de Courlande et de Semigalle : dédiés à messieurs les officiers généraux

Moritz, Bonneville, Zacharie de Pazzi de · 1756 · chez Pierre Gosse Junior, Libr. de S. A. R. · 60 pictures

A 1756 military treatise by Maurice, Comte de Saxe, Duke of Courland, published in The Hague by Pierre Gosse Junior and dedicated to general officers; its plates are ornamental engravings of decorative cartouches and frames. The pictures are fine line engravings in brown ink on cream paper, with scrollwork, garlands, lattice panels and a few trophies of flags, arms and a small city vignette that a designer could borrow for borders, title frames and baroque ornament.

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