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Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes / par M. Fossé.

Fine Arts Library - Rare Book UG400 .F68 1783
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fossé, Charles-Louis-François, 1734-1812.
Language:
French
Subjects (All):
Fortification--Early works to 1800.
Fortification.
Tactics--Early works to 1800.
Tactics.
Military topography--Early works to 1800.
Military topography.
Siege warfare--Early works to 1800.
Siege warfare.
Color prints, French--18th century.
Color prints, French.
Penn Provenance:
Perkins, G. Holmes (donor)
Physical Description:
14 unnumbered pages, 116, 60 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 11 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Place of Publication:
A Paris : De l'Imprimerie de Franç. Amb. Didot l'âiné ; Chez Alexandre Jombert, jeune, 1783.
Contents:
[Pt.1] De la défense et de l'attaque des petits postes
[pt.2] Précis pour servir à représenter les plans militaires : des couleurs propres au lavis des plans.
[pt.3] Construction de la perpective militaire.
Notes:
Illustrations: t. p. vignette (Didot's monogram); col. arms of the dedicatee, the Duke of Chatelet; 11 colored engravings of terrains, signed Louis Marin Bonnet, premier graveur de ce genre.
Only book to contain plates printed in the color aquatint process of Bonnet.
Local Notes:
Plates detached from descriptive text and bound in.
Cited in:
Brunet, II, 1354.
Gräesse, v.2, p.620.
OCLC:
19937931

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