The Artillerist's Manual, and compendium of infantry-exercise: sword exercise: field battery exercise: service of heavy ordnance, gyns, &c. fortification: pyrotechny: mathematics" gunnery: &c. &c. &c. With the Requisite Plates and Tables

GRIFFITHS, Captain & Adj. F. A

Verlag: Printed for and sold by J. M. Boddy, Woolwich, 1839

Beschreibung

xii, 300pp. With 12 engraved plates. Contemporary black half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Rubbed, lightly marked. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition of a diminutive mid-nineteenth century martial vade mecum compiled by British Army officer and military writer Frederick Augustus Griffiths (1795/6-1869). The book ran through eleven editions by 1873. This edition was published at Woolwich, where the author taught at the Royal Military Academy. OCLC and COPAC record copies at just seven locations (BL, Brock, Brown, Cambridge, NLDA, NMS, and Oxford). Size: 12mo.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ33149

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Artillerist's Manual, and compendium of infantry-exercise: sword exercise: field battery exercise: service of heavy ordnance, gyns, &c. fortification: pyrotechny: mathematics" gunnery: &c. &c. &c. With the Requisite Plates and Tables
• Verlag: Printed for and sold by J. M. Boddy, Woolwich
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1839
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage