Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Polybius. Histoire de Polybe, nouvellement traduite du grec par Vincent Thuillier; Avec un commentaire ou un corps de science militaire, enrichi de notes critiques et historiques, où toutes les grandes parties de la guerre, soit pour l‘Offensive, sout pour la Défensive, sont expliquées, démontrées, & représentées en Figures. Par Jean-Charles Chevalier de Folard. 6 vols. plus supplement. 7 vols. in all.

With 131 (of 132) engr. plates (80 folded) and 2 engr. frontispieces. C. 2750 pp. 4to. Contemp. mottled calf with gilt title and decoration on spine (edges rubbed, corners bumped, one spine defective, others with tears to spine ends). – Paris and (vol. VII:) Amsterdam, Jombert and (vol. VII:) Chatelain, 1753.

Lavishly illustrated French edition of Polybius‘ „Historiarum libri“, edited by Folard and first published in Pairs, 1727-30. Folard is a well known french officer and military theorist. His papers on Polybius were his major work. Folard and his ideas about the use of columns instead of linear grouping seemed obscur at his time but were honored posthumous and first realised by Napoleon I. – Brunet IV, 791. – Missing plate no. XIV in vol. I. Quire K in vol. VII misbound. Some pages browned due to paper quality. Else in good condition. – Best.-Nr. 11835