Roy, Jules. - Turenne. Sa vie, les institutions militaires de son temps.

Paris, Georges Hurtrel, 1884. Hardcover. Crown quarto. Pp. xxii, 520. Plus 5 fine chromolithograph plates, one of which is frontispiece and one is double-page, printed by Lemercier. Plus 6 double-page maps and views, some tinted. All are protected with tissue-guards. With almost 500 engraved illustrations, maps, views, portraits, etc. throughout the text, many of which are full-page. Elaborate head- and tail-pieces and initials. Notes, index. HARDCOVER, handsomely bound by Paul Souze in elaborately decorated quarter crimson morocco and embossed matching cloth; spine embossed, decorated, illustrated, and lettered in gilt, publisher's imprint at foot; upper cover with large allegorical illustration within ornate frame and double-ruled border, binder signature, all in gilt; lower cover with central panel with publisher's imprint within similar gilt frame and border. All edges gilded; peacock-tail pattern marbled endpapers. In a very fine condition. A most attractive, rather impeccable copy. ~ Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne-Bouillon, Vicomte de Turenne (1611-1675). In the course of a 50-year career, Turenne showed himself a master strategist and tactician, and was one of the greatest military commanders who led the armies of Louis XIV to a succession of victories. From 1643 he was marshal of France. A remarkable production, beautifully preserved, reproducing the works of several renowned artists, among which are the painters Lix and Adrien Marie, the lithographer Nordmann, the engravers Gillot, Lepere, Moller, and others. B-3 .

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