Author: Forestier, Alc. (Alcide) de; (Johann Dragollowics).
Title: Traité sur le service de l'Infanterie légère en campagne. Traduit de l'allemand; augmenté de Notes, et suivi d'un essai de nouvelles manoeuvres, à l'usage d'une compagnie de Voltigeurs isolée ou couvrant les mouvemens d'un bataillon dont elle fait partie. Orne de deux planches.
Description: Paris, Anselin et Pochard, 1824. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Duodecimo. Pp. viii, 172. Plus 2 fold-out lithographic plates bound at end. Text figure. Plain paper wrappers, bit worn, old shelf ticket to spine, old military institutional stamp and mark to title. Shabby and bit dog-eared, it is a copy that is preserved entirely in the original state, untrimmed and in a very good and clean internal condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Rare FIRST EDITION of this treatise which went directly through several reprints. The second edition appeared in 1826, and the third edition in 1829. See further "Catalogue of Books in Foreign Languages" (Dulau and Co. London 1828) which offers for sale a copy of the 2nd edition (Item 5504, p. 280); "Bulletin general et universel des annonces et des nouvelles scientifiques" (Paris, 1826), which reviews a copy of the 1st edition (No. 97, p. 237). See also Jomini's "Histoire critique et militaire des guerres de la Révolution"(Paris, 1825), Bibliography, p. 34. The book comprises of two individual treatises which are brought as one whole and the identity of the German author whose work served as the basis for the present French adaptation remains nowadays for most bibliographers a mystery. It was, however, Johann Dragollowics, a German infantry officer to whom also the work "Unterricht des Soldaten der Infanterie im Felddienst" is attributed. He is responsible for the main treatise, comprising of the first 24 chapters of the book, whereas Forestier contributed the second treatise which encompass the last three chapters, and the essay "De manoeuvres" which concludes the book. I-5 IN .

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