[Rarebooks] FS: Wittich's work on Fortification.

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Wittich, C.A. [with] La Barre Duparcq, Ed [Edouard] de., trans. UEBER 
DIE BEFESTIGUNG UND VERTHEIDIGUNG GROSSER PLATZE [BOUND WITH] DE LA 
FORTIFICATION ET DE LA DEFENSE DES GRANDES PLACES.  Berlin [and] 
Paris: G. Reimer [and] J. Correard, 1840 [and] 1847. 75 pp.; 68 pp. 
Illus.  with 16 b/w drawings on 2 folding plates. 8vo. Three quarter 
calf over marbled boards, red morocco label, all edges marbled. 
Katalog Bibliothek Koniglich Preussichen grosser Generalstabes 
(1878), p. 77; Freis, Cat. Lib.  USMA, 230.  First edition and first 
French edition. Wittich's original work on fortification and defense 
bound with Duparcq's French translation. Each version contains a copy 
of the single plate [51x45 cm (1840) and 60x48 cm (1847)].

Wittich was a Prussian Artillery Major. Deparcq was Chef de Bataillon 
of Engineers in the French Army, Professor of the Military Art in the 
Imperial School of St. Cyr, and  considered one of the best military 
writers of his day. Either version is quite scarce. We could find 
only 2 copies of the German edition, at the Het Legermuseum and the 
BL; and 2 of the French, at the BN and Biblioteca Torino.

A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of 
Illinois on front pastedown, shelf  sticker on foot of backstrip, 
boards rubbed with some loss at one corner, short contemporary 
notation on rear pastedown.     [31682]  $750.00  


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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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