Instructions sur le faict de la guerre, : extraictes des livres de Polybe, Frontin, Vegece, Cornazan, Machiavelle, & plusieurs autres bons autheurs..
Du Bellay, Guillaume,1491-1543.
Fourquevaux,baron de(Raymond),1508-1574.
Darnley, Henry Stuart,Lord,1545-1567,former owner.StEdNL
A Paris, : De l'Imprimerie de Michel Vascosan; demuerant Rue sainct Jacques a la Fontaine.,
1549..
Attributed in the publisher's foreword to Guillaume Du Bellay but possibly written by Raymond de Beccarie.
Gold-tooled binding of contemporary morocco with central panel. Decorated gold-tooled edges. Binder's waste on upper flyleaf and pastedown.
Ownership inscription at the head of the first flyleaf reads: 'Henry Darnley'. The binding strips inside both cover are strips of vellum cut horizontally from a bifolium of a work written in double columns in a hand apparently of 15th-century provenance. Tipped in the first flyleaf is a typescript letter regarding the Darnley signature from John Durkan to J. H. Loudon dated 26 March 1961.
Military art and science
France Paris.