Élémens de fortifications. A 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]

by Noizet-Saint-Paul, Gaspard

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Paris, l'Ainé, 1811-12. Three volumes bound in two. Crown octavo. I-II. Text Volume: two books, paginated consecutively, pp. vii, (i blank), 544; 545-806. With title-page to each book. 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. In a very good condition (sporadic spotting in text volume). A lovely set with all the wonderful copperplates in excellent state. - - 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 defence, a 'hochgeschätztes Lehrbuch' in Jähns words (III, 2812). Exceedingly scarce; OCLC records a single copy only, that in the US Military Academy at West Point. Another copy is in the library of the Koninklijke Militaire Academie in Breda. .

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