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Author: Saint-Remy, Pierre Surirey de
Title: Memoires d'artillerie, où il est traité des mortiers, petards, arquebuses à croc, mousquets, fusils &c....
Place Published: Amsterdam
Publisher:PIerre Mortier
Date Published: [1702]
Description:
Author: Saint-Remy, Pierre Surirey de
Title: Memoires d'artillerie, où il est traité des mortiers, petards, arquebuses à croc, mousquets, fusils &c....
Place Published: Amsterdam
Publisher:PIerre Mortier
Date Published: [1702]
Description:
2 volumes. [18], 348 pp, 106 (of 114) plates; [6], 386, [2] pp, 64 (of 70) plates. Text in French. With title piece device, head and tailpieces, floriated initials and 171 copper-engraved plates, many oversized and folding. 22.2x16.6 cm (8¾x6½"), bound by Grace Bindings in full modern calf ruled in gilt and blind, raised bands, morocco spine labels, sections tooled in gilt; blind dentelles, fresh endpapers.
Uncommon Amsterdam issue following the Parisian first edition of 1697. One of the earliest treatises published on artillery, and an oft-cited guidebook to the weaponry of the time.
Condition
Volume I frontispiece detached and trimmed within plate mark; occasional damp staining to pages and plates, one plate bound upside down, another with minor tears along folds; very good.
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With 171 plates of 18th-century weaponry
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