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8vo., Fourth Edition, with 16 engraved plates (a number double-page), and 115 woodcuts and numerous tables in the text; red cloth, boards ruled and blocked in blind, bevelled boards, gilt back, primrose endpapers, backstrip lightly sunned else a bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its press-marks on front endpapers. With 56pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Written for the use of junior officers of the Royal Engineers and those of the Honourable East India Company's Service, Frome's extensive treatise was first published from REE Chatham in 1839. Its value as a standard text was swiftly recognised in both military and civilian sectors and the third edition was exhausted by 1862. This is the fourth (first Warren) edition, considerably expanded as well as revised. Seller Inventory # 23141
Title: Outline of the Method of Conducting a ...
Publisher: Lockwood,
Publication Date: 1873
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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