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  • Seller image for ANALYSE DE L'OUVRAGE INTITULE "REFLEXIONS CRITIQUES SUR L'ART MODERNE DE FORTIFIER"; examen de cet ecrit, et refutation du principe qui en est la base: Suivis de quelques idees sur la defense et l'art defensif. Par un Officier General. for sale by Roger Middleton P.B.F.A.

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    2 WORKS BOUND TOGETHER, FIRST EDITIONS 1805 & 1804, French text. 8vo, 200 x 120 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, pages: xv, 127, bound in quarter calf over paper boards, gilt decoration and gilt lettered label to spine. Author's name from Bibliotheque Nationale. Boards spotted, corners slightly worn, 40 mm (1½") split at foot of upper hinge with tiny chip to leather, tiny chip at head of spine, front inner paper hinge split, binding tight and firm. BOUND WITH the work analysed by Levasseur: REFLEXIONS CRITIQUES SUR L'ART MODERNE DE FORTIFIER, ou Motifs pour approprier, contre les moyens modernes de l'attaque, les avantages simples, faciles et toujours majeurs du sens vertical a grandes dimensions; ce qui, en resultat, (seconde et future partie du present ouvrage) reconduit l'art fortifiant a son premier et plus ancien trace, les enceintes en lignes droites sur chaque front et sans bastions ni ouvrages detaches; enceintes d'ailleurs tres-elevees, et qui doivent etre suffisamment epaisses, abritees, abritantes et communiquees. Dedie a l'amelioration continuelle de la chose publique. By HIPPOLYTE MORLET, ancien directeur des fortifications. Paris, an xiii, 1804. FIRST EDITION, folding frontispiece of fortifications, pages: 199, (12) - adverts, according to the last line of the text this is Part I only, but the copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale has the same number of pages and it seems this is all that was published. Both are good clean copies on military science, especially fortifications. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

  • [FORTIFICATIONS] MORLET (Hippolyte)

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    Dédié à l'amélioration continuelle de la chose publique. Paris, chez Philibert Lenoir, An XIII - 1804, in-8, dérelié, quelques rousseurs. 2 ff.n.ch et 199 pp., un plan dépliant (profil de bastion). Par l'ancien directeur des fortifications. "Motifs pour approprier, contre les moyens modernes de l'attaque, les avantages simples, faciles et toujours majeurs du sens vertical à grandes dimensions". Une seconde et future partie est annoncée en page de titre qui ne semble pas avoir été publiée.