The French way of exercizing the infantry : as it is now practis'd in the armies of His Most Christian Majesty / translated from the French, October the 31, 1672.
1672
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Title
The French way of exercizing the infantry : as it is now practis'd in the armies of His Most Christian Majesty / translated from the French, October the 31, 1672.
Created/published
London : Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultry, and Johathan Edwin at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1672.
Description
1 preliminary leaf, 10 pages ; 27 cm
Corporate author
France. Armée.
Note
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Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), F2196D
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271761 (folio)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "Military & maritine [sic] discipline in three books... To which is added the doctrine of projects applied to Gunnery by Galilaeus and Torricellio. London: E. Tyler and R. Holt, for Robert Pawlet, Tho. Passinger, and Benjamin Hurlock, 1672 3 parts in one volume, small folio (290 x 197mm.), general title page in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces (for books I and II), 12 folding engraved plates, engraved table, engraved illustrations (2 full-page), woodcut diagrams, with scattered early manuscript notes throughout almost certainly by John Hope of Hopetoun and three additional pages of notes in the same hand on front and rear endpapers, dated London, 9 May 1674 and Tyninghame, 26 October, 10 November and 16 November 1675, contemporary mottled calf, speckled blue edges, some minor staining and browning throughout, joints partially cracked [with, loosely inserted:] The French Way of Exercizing the Infantry. London: Dorman Newman, 1672, [Wing F2196D], 10pp., sewn without wrappers, previously attached by seals inside the lower cover (seal bearing arms of Hope of Hopetoun) A FINE COPY WITH DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE DATING BACK TO WITHIN TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION. The three parts of this work deal with exercise of horse and foot, military architecture and fortification (translated from Tacquet and Pagan by Morland), and gunnery. LITERATURE: Riling 160; Spaulding & Karpinski 169; Wing V192 PROVENANCE: John Hope of Hopetoun, his working copy (dated from Tyninghame, ancestral home of his wife Margaret, daughter of the 4th Earl of Haddington) with purchase note ("at London this 9 May 1674"); thence by descent to the Earls of Hopetoun (armorial bookplate); sold from the Hopetoun Estate Company by order of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Sotheby's, 21 October 1957, lot 312" Ordered from: Christopher Edwards, D9269, 2019-11-19 at Sotheby's Auction "The Cottesloe Military Library", November 19, 2019, Lot 447
Folger accession
271761