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POLYBE. History. Paris, Pierre Gandouin - Julien-Michel Gandouin - Pierre-François Giffart - Nicolas-Pierre Armand, from 1727 to 1729. 4 volumes, in-4, full brown calf, ribbed spines decorated with gilt irons and central gilt fleurons, red edges. Volume 2: XLII - pp. 280 to 749, 1 f.n.ch. and pp. 438 to 473 (table). Containing from p. 441 onwards the "Traité de l'attaque des places des anciens". Engraved title bands, 36 plates out of text, including 17 double-page plates. Volume 3: XLII - 5 ff.n.ch. - 434 pp. - 1 f.n.ch. containing up to p. 192 the second part of the "Traité de la défense des places", followed by the second book of Polybius' "Histoire" and a "Dissertation sur les mines", 16 plates out of text, 11 double-page spreads (2 fold-outs). Volume IV: XLVIII - 482 pp. - 2 ff.n.ch. containing in fine the "Dissertation on the Second Punic War", with engraved title band, 21 plates out of text including 12 double-page plates (1 map and 2 fold-outs). Volume V: XXXVIII - 508 pp. - 1 f.n.ch. 2 engraved title bands, 10 plates out of text including 9 double-page plates. Upper headbands loose, jaws rubbed, small leather loss on spine of vol. 3 and jaws of vol. 2 cracked, lower right corners of vols. 2 and 5 dulled, boards slightly stained, endpapers of vol. 2 spotted, inner flyleaf of vol. 3 torn, very rare foxing. Richly illustrated first edition of this French translation of "L'Histoire" by the Greek historian Polybius (200 / 120 BC) by Vincent Thuillier, a Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint Maur. Volumes 2, 3, 4 and 5 (complete in six volumes). Polybius' "History", which mainly narrates the expansion of Rome from a Greek point of view, is accompanied by a "Commentary or body of military science", enriched with critical and historical notes and numerous engraved figures, in which the great theories of offense and defense are explained and demonstrated by Chevalier Folard (1668 - 1752). Folard experienced all the battlefields of the late reign of Louis XIV, including the bloody Battle of Malpaquet (1709). Here, he provides a critical analysis of the battle tactics promoted in his time, which consisted in making the rifle the infantry's basic weapon, and in arranging thin lines of infantrymen in front of the enemy, whose stretching was intended to increase firepower. Folard drew his criticism from Polybius, at a time when the great technical advances in artillery (with Gribeauval and Vauban) had not yet been made. Contemporary binding, very fresh inside.
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