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DUPAIN DE MONTESSON, Louis Charles].- Divertimentos militares, obra agradavel, e instructiva, utilissima para todos os militares. Idea da obra. Hum fidaldo, que se destina para ser militar [...] / traducção feita, e accrescentada por H..um amante, e zeloso D..a P..atria.- Lisboa: Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1762.- [16], 305, [5] p.: 1 frontispício, [16] gravuras; 20 cm.- E. Translation published without the author's name (ca. 1709-ca. 1790), French military engineer and mathematician. Original edition only with the initials of the translator, Henrique de Pradt (the original edition came out in Paris, just five years earlier). Illustrated edition with an engraved frontispiece and 16 engravings signed by Juzarte, 10 of which are double (two per sheet) and the remaining six on folding sheets. The subscription to the engraving “3rd part, 2nd print” is especially interesting: Joaquim António Juzarte Abrio E mora Na travessa Dos ladroins (Ernesto Soares, «História», 1219). Copy slightly manipulated, with some engravings badly folded, with occasional tears, without lack of support. Mathias Lima’s bookmark. Remarkable contemporary binding, fully vieux rouge sheepskin, with gilt ornamental borders and florets on the covers, with the coat of arms of Portugal (D. José I) on book stamps, gold gauffered at the centre of both covers and closed panels on the spine; unglued pastedowns. Inocêncio, III, p. 187. Gonçalves Rodrigues (Translation), 1022.