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Theorie der wichtigsten Manoeuvers Zur Bildung junger Officiers.

A GERMAN MANUSCRIPT MANUAL

4to. Fine uncoloured watercolour title and thirty superb hand-coloured diagram plates, one of them folding). Contemporary diced russia with elaborate tooled gilt borders, rebacked with original gilt spine, slightly worn, laid down, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, two attractive armorial bookplates to the front pastedown. 166pp. of manuscript text in an impeccable hand, followed by the plates. Early l9th century, probably, 1810.

£575.00

A most attractive work. The superbly-executed diagrams describe exercises for drilling troops and parade-ground and battle-field manoeuvres, arranged in ascending order of difficulty.

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68093