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Military. Mauvillon (Jakob), Essai sur l'influence de la poudre à canon dans l'art de la guerre moderne, Leipsie: Jean Philip Haug Veuve, 1788, 7 folding engraved plates of maps/plans, occasional contemporary marginal notes, early 19th c English quarter-russia over marbled boards, split, disbound and worn, marbled endpapers, uncut, 8vo; [&] Perrinet d'Orval (Jean-Charles), Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre, first edition, Paris: Coustelier, 1745, 12 engraved plates of diagrams, later cloth over marbled boards, red edges, 8vo, (2)
Provenance: 1st: Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy FRS, FLS (1785-1851), of Lambeth, sometime MP and book collector; his bookplate to recto pastedown.
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