MANUAL OF MILITARY ENGINEERING (PROVISIONAL EDITION), Compiled at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham. By Authority. (Military Books).

MILITARY MANUAL. SCHOOL OF MILITARY ENGINEERING, CHATHAM.

Verlag: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Harrison and Sons, St. Martin's Lane., London, 1901

Beschreibung

16mo. 3.75 x 4.75 inches. vii + [i] + 194 pp. Bound in original maroon morocco cloth, gilt, spine neatly rebacked. All edges red. List of military books and works on both endpapers. Some wear to extremities but otherwise fine condition. Illustrated by 64 lithograph plates. Various military engineering manuals were issued in the second half of the nineteenth onwards, including more detailed titles on field defences, attacks on fortresses, mining and demolition, bridges and railways. This appears to be the first version of the provisional edition (another appeared in 1903) and is of a general nature, covering all of the above topics in one volume. At this date there was still some emphasis on using natural materials that were available in the field, like brushwood and on techniques such as the use of knots. It includes some fine lithographic plates of trenches, redoubts, roads and bridges, etc. and is now a scarce title. WWAR1 MILITARY MILITARY MANUALS 20TH CENTURY WWAR1. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 21881

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Titel: MANUAL OF MILITARY ENGINEERING (PROVISIONAL ...

Verlag: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Harrison and Sons, St. Martin's Lane., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1901