Rules, Chiefly Deduced from Experiment, for Conducting the Practical Operations of a Siege, Originally Composed for the Use of the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham. Part I: Containing the Preparation of the Necessary Materials, and the Tracing and Execution of the First and Second Parallels, and of the Approaches Connected with Them

Paisley, C. W.

Verlag: John Weale, London, 1841

Beschreibung

Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Part I only. Cover title: Rules for Conducting the Practical Operations of a Siege. Green gilt stamped cloth over boards, xiii, 61 pages, illustrated with drawings in the text. Covers worn/scuffed, spotted, worn at corners and spine ends, short tears in cloth at base of spine and along parts of back edge of spine. Chapters include preparing timber and brushwood for military purposes; rules for making fascines; rules for making gabions and hurdles; rules for tracing and commencing the first parallel; rules for tracing and commencing the second parallel; arming the working parties in a siege; arrangements and regulations proper for military working parties in a siege; and more. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 0 oz. Category: Military & Warfare; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 008813. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008813

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Rules, Chiefly Deduced from Experiment, for ...

Verlag: John Weale, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1841

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket

Auflage: Second Edition.