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Élémens de fortifications à l'usage des officiers des etats-majors des armées, et mis a la portée des jeunes éleves des écoles militaires. I: Text; II: Plates. [TWO VOLUMES]. Hardcover -

by Noizet-Saint-Paul, Gaspard

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Paris, l'Ainé, 1811-12.. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Three volumes bound in two. Crown octavo. I-II: Two text volumes, paginated consecutively, pp. vii, (i blank), 544; 545-806. With title-page to each volume. Footnotes, side references to illustrations, tables. III. Plate Volume: 377 finely engraved illustrations, plans, and maps on 71 fold-out copperplates. HARDCOVER, uniformly bound in contemporary half polished calf and marbled paper over boards, spines gilt-ruled, one restored, each with a crimson morocco label lettered and decorated in gilt, red sprinkled edges; sporadic spotting in text volume. In a very good condition with all copperplates in excellent condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. A remarkably detailed study of field fortification and engineering manual in one. While also dealing with history of fortification, mechanics, and construction, it is indeed a wonderfully illustrated manual on order of battle, field planning, siege, and defense, a "hochgeschätztes Lehrbuch" in Jähns words (III, 2812). ~ Jordan 2718. C-1
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  • Title Élémens de fortifications à l'usage des officiers des etats-majors des armées, et mis a la portée des jeunes éleves des écoles militaires. I: Text; II: Plates. [TWO VOLUMES].
  • Author Noizet-Saint-Paul, Gaspard
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - .
  • Publisher Paris, l'Ainé, 1811-12.
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2221

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