Fossé, Idées d'un militaire, Paris, 1783, contemporary boards, uncut

FOSSÉ, CHARLES LOUIS FRANÇOIS DE

Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes. Paris: François Ambroise Didot for Alexandre Jombert, 1783

4to (312 x 232mm.), half-title, coloured lithographed headpiece at start of dedication, 11 folding colour-printed lithographed plates by Louis Marin Bonnet, original boards, UNCUT, binding rubbed and faded

FIRST EDITION. Bonnet developed a method for printing in colour, known as the colour aquatint process, which makes the plates describing each of the defensive or offensive situations much easier to interpret as well as more beautiful to look at.