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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. First French edition. The "General-Principia vom Kriege", which had been sent to the commanders of the troops since 1753 with the obligation that "no one else, no matter who he wanted, should see it or lose it", passed into the hands of the Austrians in 1760.
In the following years, at least 6 German, 9 French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Russian translations were published.
The Prince de Ligne, Frédéric's adversary, pays homage to him: “It's the best war book I know; (.) If Caesar had written instructions, they would have been like these”. The panels show orders of battle.
"The General Principles have a particular value because of the marvelous, often "astonishing" sincerity with which they advise the use of certain politico-military means, but even more because of the frank self-criticism which the king exercises in his own army operations for the purpose of instructing its generals" -
Superb work with the Text of Frederick II, King of Prussia, translated from German by Faesch and complete with 13 fold-out plates -
Mr. Faesch - Military Instruction From The King Of Prussia For His Generals - 1761
Good condition of the binding, work in its full period calfskin, addition of leather to the upper cover, rubbed corners, some light scuffing on the covers, smooth spine decorated in a fine way, solid binding -
Fair interior condition, slight soiling and traces of wetting on a few boards, pretty bands, tailpieces, complete presence of the 13 folding boards, marbled flyleaves, Ex-libris. -
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