[ARENBERG, Ernst d', Prince]. Essai d'une nouvelle méthode de fortification regulière pour la defénse des grandes places de guerre d'un diamètre de neuf cents toises et au-dessus. Paris, Imprimerie de Jules Didot [for the author], 1822.
4to, pp. [4], 67, [1], with 5 large folding engraved plates; a very good and crisp copy bound in contemporary green-blue mottled and polished calf, gilt border, gilt spine with red morocco label.
First edition of this uncommon privately distributed work on intricate fortifications exceeding 5400 feet in diameter. Arenberg of whom little is known but who had fought in Germany and Italy (preface) claims to have found a new method of frustrating the ever longer range and accuracy of modern artillery.Brunet I, 118 ('ouvrage n'a pas été mis dans le commerce'); OCLC and RLIN locate two copies: University of Minnesota and US Military Academy, West Point; no copy in NUC.
£375
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