AUTHVILLE DES AMOURETTES (Charles Louis d') Essay... - Lot 27 - Eric Caudron

AUTHVILLE DES AMOURETTES (Charles Louis d') Essay on Cavalry, both ancient and modern. To which were attached the new instructions & orders relating to it, with the current state of the mounted troops, their pay, &c. À Paris, Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1756, in-4, LVI-619 pp., 4 vignettes engraved in the text, a painting depicting a h.-t., glazed rooted calf, smooth spine richly decorated with frieze and gilded floral boxes, guilloche cuttings, lemon slices (rel. of the period). Small epidermal abrasions. First edition of this essay which constitutes a kind of encyclopedia of the weapon. Nice copy from the library at Shirburn Castle, Earls of Macclesfield, with ex-libris.