H Hippolyte Plessix (2 results)
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Manuel complet de fortification. Rédigé conformément au programme du cours professé à l'école spéciale militaire et au programme d'admission à l'école supérieure de guerre.
Plessix, H. (Hippolyte Isidore), E. (Émile Edmond) Legrand (Girarde).
Published by Paris, Berger Levrault, 1883
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- First Edition
Seller: Librarium of The Hague, The Hague, NetherlandsLibrarium of The Hague
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Add to basketHardcover. 1st Edition. Royal octavo. Pp. xiii, 688. Plus 22 leaves of lithographic plates and maps, some of which are folding. Includes some chromolithograph maps and a particularly handsome folding coloured panorama "Type de fort a fossés secs". With 280 fine woodcut illustrations to the text. HARDCOVER, bound in the original…publisher's dark leaf green cloth, spine gilt; bit rubbed in places, spine slightly worn at extremities, old shelf tickets, old military institutional stamps to title, maps foxed due to paper quality. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Jordan 2936. The print quality of the plates and maps surpasses that of later editions. Particularly the large chromolithograph plates are of much higher quality. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edition, 1910) has described this book as "one of the more important works on the subject of fortification and siege war", and the book has been listed as such together with the works of the great fortification theoreticians Dürer, de Ville, Coehoorn, Vauban, Noizet, as well as Plessix's contemporaries Delambre, Ritter von Brunner, and Deguise. 005-8. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator).
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Language: French
- Hardcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 810. A perfect gift… for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1900 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: French Pages: 810.
