Author: Delambre, A. (Alfred Philippe).
Title: La fortification dans ses rapports avec la tactique et la stratégie. Conférences faites a l'École supérieure de guerre, 1883-1885. Tome premier: Fortification passagère.
Description: Paris, Baudoin, 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. vii, 389. Plus folding map bound at end. With text figures, sketch maps and tables. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, old shelf ticket to spine, old military institutional stamp to title; inner hinges slightly cracked, slight wear to head of spine. Foxed, else in a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Alfred Philippe Delambre (1833-1909). The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edition, 1910) has described this book as "one of the more important works on the subject of fortification and siege war", and the book has been listed as such together with the works of the great fortification theoreticians Dürer, de Ville, Coehoorn, Vauban, Noizet, as well as Delambre's contemporaries Plessix and Legrand, Ritter von Brunner, and Deguise. Extremely rare. Jordan 0862. H-5 IN .

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