(MILITARY.) Bardet de Villeneuve, P. P. A. Cours de la Science Militaire, a l'Usage de l'Infanterie, de la Cavalerie, de l'Artillerie, du Genie, & de la Marine. 8 engraved frontispieces as called for and 142 folding engraved plates depicting military tactics, fortifications, weaponry and equipment, etc. Half-titles (except in Volumes 1 and 5). 10 volumes in 9. 8vo, 200x122 mm, late 18th-century sprinkled calf, flat spines richly gilt with multiple repeating patterns and red and green morocco lettering pieces; light offsetting from frontispieces onto titles, headline or plate number cropped on some plates, contents otherwise generally quite clean. Macclesfield Library embossed stamps and armorial bookplates. The Hague: Jean van Duren, 1740-42