Le govvernement de la cavallerie legere : traicté qui comprend mesme se qui concerne la graue, pour l'intelligence des capitaines, reduite en art par plusieurs excellens preceptes, & representé par figures

Le govvernement de la cavallerie legere : traicté qui comprend mesme se qui concerne la graue, pour l'intelligence des capitaines, reduite en art par plusieurs excellens preceptes, & representé par figures

Gouvernement de la cavallerie legere|Gouerno della caualleria leggiera

A Roven : Chez Iean Berthelin ..., 1627.

French
Spanish

[12], 76, [4] p., [12] double leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)

L2010F127 1627

(OCoLC)48656014

Translation of: Gouerno della caualleria leggiera by J. T. de Bry.
Title engraved with illustrated border.
First published in 1612, Venice & numerous editions in French, Spanish followed.
Author was a general of Albanian descent employed to command Habsburg forces in the Long War & later to administer Transylvania.
Signatures: ã6 A-G6.
Treatise on the management & use of light cavalry.
Library copy lacks index; water damaged at foot throught the text.
Armorial bookplates with motto (Sapere Aude): Militar. collection of the Hon. Lt. Genl. G.L. Parker (2nd son of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield & Colonel of the 20th Foot Regiment during the 1776 Canadian and 1777 Saratoga campaigns); South Library, 1860; blind ownership stamps with motto (Sapere Aude) on first 2 leaves, including title.

Cockle, 724

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