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BALME (Mottin de la). ÉLÉMENS de Tactique pour la Cavalerie. A Paris. 1776. - BALME (Mottin de la) ÉLÉMENS de Tactique pour la Cavalerie . A Paris: Chez Jombert & Ruault, 1776. xxiv, 272, [4] pp., 5 grav.: il.; 205 mm. First edition of a treatise on cavalry tactics, authored by a French cavalry captain and officer who had published a treatise on horsemanship three years earlier ( Essais sur l'équitation , Amsterdam and Paris, 1773). The work belongs to the genre of Enlightenment treatises on military science concerning the organization and tactical employment of cavalry, illustrated with five engravings, and concludes with a critical analysis of previous works on the subject. This is the title that the author himself took with him on his trip to America in 1776-1777, presenting it, along with his treatise on horsemanship, to figures of the American Revolution; the copy given to John Adams is still kept in the Boston Public Library. It was reprinted in Dresden by the Walther brothers in 1783. A rare treatise on eighteenth-century military tactics. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate