Published by Strasbourg F. G. Levrault an xviii, 1805
First Edition
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Add to basket2 WORKS BOUND TOGETHER, FIRST EDITIONS, 1805 & 1804, French text. 8vo, 200 x 120 mm, 8 x 5 inches. ANALYSE DE L'OUVRAGE INTITULE: 1805: pages: xv, [1]-127. (Author's name from Bibliotheque Nationale). BOUND WITH REFLEXIONS CRITIQUES SUR L'ART MODERNE DE FORTIFIER, By HIPPOLYTE MORLET, ancien directeur des fortifications. Paris, an xiii, 1804. FIRST EDITION, folding frontispiece map of fortifications, pages: [4], 1-199, followed by 12 pages of Publisher's catalogue, half-title present. 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. Bound in quarter calf over paper boards, gilt decoration and gilt lettered label to spine. 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, 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 AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.
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.