Plessix Hippolyte Isidore (7 results)

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Condition: New.

Hardcover. 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: TOTAL REDUCTION SALE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator). …

In-8, reliure pleine percaline verte, fleuron doré au dos, auteur et titre dorés, filets noirs à froid sur les plats, gardes jaunes, 688 pp. Répertoire alphabétique in-fine. Ouvrage important sur les fortifications, qui a été réédité à cinq reprises entre 1883 et 1909. Première partie consacrée à la fortification passgère, deuxième partie à la fortification permanente avec des développements intéressants sur la fortification polygonale (Anvers) et des débats de l'époque à son sujet. La IIIe partie traite de l'attaque et défense des places, la IVe de l'organisation et services du Génie, y compris des chemins de fer, de la télégraphie militaire et des communications par voie aérienne. Nombreux schémas in-texte et plans dépliants hors texte. Analyse des fortifications de Metz, Strasbourg (carte dépliante), Paris (plan dépliant). marques blanches sur la couverture, déchirure à la pliure de la page de garde.Tampon de la "Direction des fortifications et du corps du Génie" - [Belgique]. Solide exemplaire.(Home33) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Size: 14 x 22.…

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