GAYA, Louis de. Traité des armes, des machines de guerre, des feux d'artifice, des enseignes & des instrumens militaires anciens & modernes; avec la manière dont on s'en fert presentement dans les armées tant Françoises qu'etrangeres. Enrichy de figures. Par le Sieur de Gaya, cy-devant capitaine dans le Regiment de Champagne. Paris, S. Cramoisy, 1678. 12mo. Contemp. red morocco with gilt, ribbed spine with morocco letterpiece, both covers with central gilt coat of arms of LOUIS XIV within triple gilt fillet border, gilt edges of covers and inside dentelles, marbled endpapers. With engraved title-p. (6), 172 pp.
Rare first edition of this treatise on arms and engines of war, published simultaneously with the English edition. The plates depict old and modern weapons such as swords and sabres, pikes, halberts, guns and bombs, but also armour, flags, Roman military signs, and musical instruments.