130 planches - Ordonnance provisoire sur l'exercice et...

Provisional ordinance on the exercise and maneuvers of cavalry, drafted by order of the Minister of War on the 1st Vendémiaire An XIII. Third edition. Followed by the Instruction of 24 September 1811, on the Exercise and the Manoeuvres of the Lance. Second volume: same title: Plates. 1815, at Magimel, Bookseller to Military Art, Paris. 2 volumes in-12, bound in full calf, 498 pages and 4 folding plates, indexes, + 12 pages; and 126 plates including folding plates, and indexes. Bindings of the period in full natural calf, smooth spine adorned with fillets, rosettes, and title, stamped in fine gold, title pieces in black morocco. Strong signs of wear from use on the boards, the edges and the headbands, one folding plate incomplete (split), plates 30 and 124 with an angular defect. Rare ordinance, drafted by order of Berthier, then Minister of War, by a commission composed of Generals Bourcier, d'Hautpoul, Klein, Kellermann, Louis Bonaparte, Canclaux, Nansouty, Ordener and the Colonels Marx and Maurice, of the Adjutant-General Curto.

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