Wittich, C.A. [with] La Barre Duparcq, Ed [Edouard] de., trans - Ueber Die Befestigung Und Vertheidigung Grosser Platze [Bound with] de la Fortification Et de la Defense Des Grandes Places

Berlin [and] Paris, G. Reimer [and] J. Correard, 1847. First edition and first French edition. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, red morocco label, all edges marbled. 75 pp.; 68 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w drawings on 2 folding plates. 8vo. Wittich's original work on fortification and defense with Duparcq's French translation. Each version contains a copy of the single plate [51x45 cm (1840) and 60x48 cm (1847)]. Wittich was a Prussian Artillery Major. Deparcq was Chef de Bataillon of Engineers in the French Army, Professor of the Military Art in the Imperial School of St. Cyr, and considered one of the best military writers of his day. Either version is quite scarce. OCLC and European databases show only six locations for the German edition: Het Legermuseum, BL, BN France, Badische LandesBib. Staats & Univ. Bib. Hamburg, and St. Galler; and only two of the French: BN France and Biblioteca Torino. Katalog Bibliothek Koniglich Preussichen grosser Generalstabes (1878), p. 77; Freis, Cat. Lib. USMA, 230. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip, boards rubbed with some loss at one corner, short contemporary notation on rear pastedown.

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