Compendio de reflexiones militares
Subtitle: que facilita el mas perfecto, y claro conocimiento del arte, extractadas de las obras del Sr. Visconde del Puerto, Marquès de Santa Cruz
By: por D. Sebastian de Ribera, capitan de granaderos del regimiento de Lombardia, y lo dedica a los señores coronel, y oficiales del mismo cuerpo
Contributors: Santa Cruz de Marcenado, Alvaro Navia Osorio, marqués de, 1684-1732; Santa Cruz de Marcenado, Alvaro Navia Osorio, marqués de, 1684-1732; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: En la oficina de D. Blas de los Olivos
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Havana
Language: spa
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Military art and science; Early works to 1800
Notes: Pages 110-128 misnumbered as 200-209, 300-308.

The author provides this "compendio" of a large, multi-volume work published between 1724 and 1730 in Turin, entitled Reflexiones militares del Mariscal de Campo Don Alvaro Navia Osorio, Visconde de Puerto. Ribera's present work was the earliest attempt to make this classic known, at least in abridged form. A later Spanish version, Compendio de los veinte libros de Reflexiones militares, though not an identical work, was published in Madrid, 1787.

Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.