Author: MILLER, Moriz von.
Title: Vorlesungen über die Feldverschanzungs-Kunst, in Verbindung mit dem Pionnier- und Pontonnier-Dienste, so wie über die stehende Befestigung und die Lehre des Angriffs und der Vertheidigung fester Plätze.Karlsruhe and Freiburg, Herder, 1831. 2 volumes. 4to. With 58 double-page lithographed plates, each displaying several figures, and both with a double-page lithographed title-page. Contemporary tanned half sheepskin, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers.
Description: [8], 218, XV, [1]; [2], 194, XII, [2] pp.Enlarged second edition of a work on fortification by the German General Moriz von Miller (1792-1866). The work is divided into two parts, the first mainly dealing with temporary or field fortification, the second with permanent fortification. It deals with different types and shapes of forts, their advantages and disadvantages, their measurements, their construction, and the attack and defence of these fortresses. The second part also includes fortification theories and methods of various writers, including Vauban, Cormontaigne, Dufour and Chasseloup-Laubat. Printed in the margins are the references to the corresponding plates and figures. The two parts are often bound in two separate volumes, each with its own plates. Here, however, the text of the two parts is bound in one volume, and the plates of the two parts are bound in an atlas volume, which can be consulted while reading the text volume. Both text and atlas volume foxed throughout. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities. Overall in very good condition.l Jordan 2541.

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