Summary account and military character of the different european armies, engaged in the late war: with a parallel of the policy, power, and means of the Ancient Romans and Modern French.
London.
Printed for T. Egerton, 1803.
First edition in English.
8vo.
viii, 176pp. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Francis Markham to FEP, scattered foxing.
The first edition in English of an anonymous analysis of the arrangement and efficacy of the armies of the combatants engaged in the War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802), translated from the French 'in order to convey to the British army, and the nation at large, the opinions and sentiments of a foreigner, whose talents and abilities...are of the first rate'.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 24118
