Reflexions Militaires et Politiques. Traduites de l'espagnol par M. de Vergy. (11 volume set)

Alvaro Navia Osorio Santa Cruz de Marcenado, marques de; de Vergy

Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1738

11 volume set. Bound in handsome French calf with red morocco spine labels.  Spine divided into six compartments. Gilt stamping and decoration.  Very good bindings and covers. (Though, Vol. 4 has a scrape at the bottom edge.) All edges red. Marbled end pages. Clean, unmarked pages. A fresh set.  Fold out diagrams.

Collation: (XXIX p., [1], 429, [3] p. ; XII, 400 p. ; [2], XI p., [1], 456 p. ; [2], VII p., [1], 407 p., [1]; [4], VI, [7] p., [1], 393 p., [3], [3] plates. ; [12], 376 p. ; [16], 398 p., [2]; [10], 411 p., [1]; [6], 413 p., [3]; [10] p., [2], 310 p., [2]; [16], 395, [5])

Don Alvaro was a Spanish diplomat and general.  He served in the War of Spanish Succession in Philip V's army and later in Italy.  He died fighting against Ottoman forces in Oran, North Africa in 1732.  He wrote Reflexiones Militares del Mariscal de Campo (first published in Turin in 1724-1727, and Paris in 1730, Fr: Reflexions militaires et politiques), an multi-volume guide that aimed to be a complete treatise on all aspects of war.  The work was widely read and translated into four languages.  Napoleon, Voltaire, Louis‐Hector Drummond de Melfort, Frederick the Great, and 18th century West Point had Marcenado's treatise on military science in their libraries.