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CONGREVE, WILLIAM, Sir. A Treatise on the General Principles, Powers, and Facility of Application of the Congreve Rocket System, as compared with Artillery. 12 folding aquatint plates. 84 [i. e., 80] pages. 4to, 290x227 mm, modern cloth; occasional faint dampstaining and minor foxing lightly affecting some plates, light offsetting from plates onto facing pages, small stamp of Sion College Library on title verso (released). wide-margined copy. London: (A. & R. Spottiswoode for) Longmans et al., 1827
first edition. Congreve pioneered the modern development of military rocketry, inventing rockets that were used during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Riling 416; DSB III, 388; Von Braun & Ordway, pages 30-33.
