Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes /
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| Language: | French |
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A Paris :
Chez Alexandre Jombert, jeune,
MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
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| Item Description: | Illustrations: title page vignette (Didot's monogram); color arms of the dedicatee, the Duke of Chatelet; 11 colored engravings of military plans, signed Louis Marin Bonnet, premier graveur de ce genre. The text is the work of the French military engineer Charles-Louis de Fossé and divides naturally into two sections. The first dealing with the strategies to be employed when attacking (or defending) a small military outpost manned by between 30 and 300 men; the second dealing with the correct use of colour when drawing military maps and plans (and touching on perspective drawing as applied to military plans). This second part is illustrated using Bonnet's plates. Only book to contain plates printed in the color "gravure en maniere de pastel" of Bonnet. The Cushing Library/Ragan Military copy is wanting the plates. The Cushing Library/Ragan Military copy contains bookseller's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 12 unnumbered pages, 116, 60 pages, xi leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, color plans ; 30 cm |