[Rarebooks] fa: MEMOIRES du MARQUIS DE FEUQUIERE, LIEUTENANT GENERAL des ARMEES DU ROI - 1737

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Antoine de Pas de Feuquieres: Memoires de M. le Marquis de Feuquiere, Lieutenant General des Armees du Roi; Contenans ses Maximes sur la Guerre, & l'application des exemples aux Maximes. Nouvelle edition, revue, & corrigee sur l'Original; augmentee de plusieurs additions considerables; ensemble d'une Vie de l'Auteur donnee par M. le Comte de Feuquiere son frere, & enrichie de Plans & de Cartes. Londres [London]: Pierre Dunoyer…et… Paris: Rollin Fils, MDCCXXXVII [1737]. Four volumes, small 8vo (16 cm), in early/period full mottled calf, gilt-tooled borders and spine decorations, gilt-lettered spine labels; [2], ccviii, 226 pp.; [4], 402 pp.; [4], 387 pp.; [4], 444 pp.; half-title page in each volume; with 13 engraved folding maps and plans (complete).

The marquis de Feuquiere, a French officer and tactician in the service of Louis XIV, distinguished himself during the Nine Years' War, aka the War of the Grand Alliance (1688-97), in particular at the Battle of Neerwinden, where the French routed the forces of William III of England. His memoirs are a major primary source for eighteenth-century Continental military history and were of significant use to Voltaire in writing his Siecle de Louis XIV. This edition is augmented with 13 folding plates, including maps of the Spanish Netherlands and the Rhine, and plans of the battles of Neerwinden (Nerwinde), Fleurus, Ramillies, Malplaquet, etc.

Bindings with bumping and wear to the corners, some creasing and rubbing to the spines, one spine label lost; some folding plates with toning and wear to the edges and/or creases and short closed tears at the folds; contents with a few occasional small spots; vol. III with some (generally unobtrusive) damp-staining and bowing to the boards; early owner's ink notation to the front free-endpapers; else quite clean and sound, securely bound. In all, a very good set.