Le Dran. Traité ou reflexions tirées de la pratique sur les playes d'armes à feu
LE DRAN, Henri-François.
Traité ou reflexions tirées de la pratique sur les playes d'armes à feu.
Paris, Charles Osmont, 1740.
240 €
12mo (16.2x9.6 cm), (16)-264-(8) pages.
binding: Contemporary full brown mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece, red edges, marbled endpapers.
Second cover rubbed on the lower corner with small lack, one corner bumped.
Second edition.
This book is the result of campaigns that the author has made in the French armies.
Le Dran was one of the most skilled surgeons, and one of the smartest writers of the eighteenth century (Dezeimeris).
Very good copy.
references: Garisson-Morton [2149, ed. 1737], Dezeimeris [III, p. 419].
