Unterricht für die Officiers, die sich zu Feld-Ingenieurs bilden : oder doch den Feldzügen mit Nutzen beywohnen wollen, durch Beyspiele aus dem letzten Kriege erläutert, und mit nöthigen Plans versehen / von Johann Gottlieb Tielcke ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tielke, Johann Gottlieb, 1731-1787.

Contributor:

Holtzmann, C. F.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Fortification, Field--Early works to 1800.

Fortification, Field.

Fortification--Early works to 1800.

Fortification.

Military engineering--Early works to 1800.

Military engineering.

Physical Description:

54 unnumbered pages, 399 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Dressden und Leipzig : In Verlag Joh. Nicolaus Gerlachs W. und Sohn, 1769.

Notes:

Signatures: a⁸(-a8) b-c⁸ d⁴ A-2B⁸ 2C².

Frontispiece (signed C.F. Holtzmann) not conjugate with any leaves in first gathering and included in plate count. The 31 plates at the end are numbered [2], I-XXIX.

Errata & directions to the binder: p. [400].

"Addressing the senior engineer officers attached to the headquarters of an army in the field, Tielke dealt in detail with the whole variety of services to be expected of them, from laying out encampments to preparing topographical plans of likely fields of battle."--Houlding, J.A., Fit for service, p. 255.

" ... it was common to find American officers in the possession of the standard texts of Santa Cruz, Frederic, Turpin de Crissé, Grandmaison, Jeney and Tielke."--Duffy, C., The military experience in the age of reason, p. 283.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Library's copy bound in full calf over paper boards; five raised bands on spine with gold-tooled floral ornaments in spine panels. Author and title blind-stamped in one panel, and, in another, a brown leather label with "Königin Regiment" stamped in gold. Marbled paper pastedowns; edges speckled red.

OCLC:

50295039