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Title: Principios de fortificacion, que contienen las definiciones de los terminos principales de las obras de plaza, y de campa–a, con una idea de la conducta regularmente observada en el ataque, y defensa de las fortalezas. Dispuestos para la instruccion de la juventud militar.
Description: Barcelona: por Thomas Piferrer, 1772. 4to [36], 318p. 10 folding plates (all intact and without tears). Bookplate of Brooklyn Public Library on front pastedown. Embossed and perforated library stamps on title page and on leaf N1. Contemporary parchment, worn at head and foot of spine; rear cover stained and slightly sprung; library press mark on spine. ***** One of several works on military engineering by an influential general who was Director of the Military Academy at Barcelona. His other writings include: Discurso o dictamen sobre la anchura de los caminos reales (1763), Disertación sobre las medidas militares (1773) and Nociones militares (1781). ***** Palau 143474; J. Almirante, Bibliografía militar de Espa–a, p.454; A Bonet Correa, Bibliografía de arquitectura, ingenieria . . . en Espa–a, 779; not in STC of eighteenth-century Spanish books in the British Library.

Keywords: military, engineering, fortification, Spanish

Price: GBP 150.00 = appr. US$ 214.20 Seller: Jack Baldwin - Rare Books
- Book number: 18/082

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