[Manuscript - Militaria] GUISCHARDT (Charles). Excerpt from - Lot 37

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[Manuscript - Militaria] GUISCHARDT (Charles). Excerpt from - Lot 37
[Manuscript - Militaria] GUISCHARDT (Charles). Excerpt from *Military Memoirs on the Greeks and Romans*. Compiled by Charles Guischard. No place, no date [second half of the 18th century]. A small quarto volume in a plain contemporary cardboard binding. 98 handwritten folios in brown ink, in neat and legible handwriting, and 16 folded hand-drawn plates bound at the end of the volume. Manuscript based on *Military Memoirs on the Greeks and Romans* by Charles Guischardt (1724–1775), published in The Hague in 1758 and reprinted in Lyon in 1760. It focuses primarily on the Punic Wars: battles between the Romans and Carthaginians, Hannibal’s tactics, Scipio’s campaigns, etc.The 16 folded plates reproduce, in the form of diagrams, the positions of the armies, infantry and cavalry lines, camps, entrenchments, and tactical movements discussed in the text.
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