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Memoires d'artillerie, / recueillis par M. Surirey de Saint Remy ...
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1745 Saint-Rémy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saint-Rémy, Pierre Surirey de, ca. 1650-1716.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France. Armée. Artillerie--Regulations.
- France.
- Artillery--Dictionaries.
- Artillery.
- Artillery--France--Early works to 1800.
- Gunnery--Early works to 1800.
- Gunnery.
- Ordnance--Early works to 1800.
- Ordnance.
- Ammunition--Early works to 1800.
- Ammunition.
- Fireworks--Early works to 1800.
- Fireworks.
- Military art and science--Early works to 1800.
- Military art and science.
- Offensive (Military science).
- Physical Description:
- 3 v. : ill., plans, port. ; 26 cm. (4to)
- Edition:
- Troisiéme edition, beaucoup plus ample & plus complette que la seconde.
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris, : Chez Rollin fils, quai des augustins, à Saint Athanase & au Palmier., M.DCC.XLV. [1745]
- Notes:
- Engraved title vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Includes index.
- Half title: Memoires d'artillerie en trois volumes....
- Contains ca. [218] leaves of plates (many folded) including engraved frontispiece, engraved port. of Saint-Rémy, and unnumbered tables; most of the 208 numbered plates are engraved by P. Le Pautre after Edme. Fourier.
- "Liste des auteurs qui ont traite de l'artillerie": t. I, 10th-11th preliminary leaves.
- "Dictionnaire des mots et des termes qui sont propres a l'artillerie" : v. III, p. [307]-358.
- "Edits, declarations et ordonnances touchant l'artillerie" : v. III, p. [359]-468.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Livres français conservés grâce à la Fondation Florence Gould," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2003.
- Athenaeum copy: v. 1 exhibited: "Samuel Breck (1771-1862): Books From the Library of a Philadelphia Francophile," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2013-14.
- Athenaeum copy: Conserved and rebound in 2002 with a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck 1st Presentation bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Some plates misbound: plates 89, 111 and 143 bound in v. 3 rather than v. 2.
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