May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
SCHEEL, OTTO HEINRICH. Mémoires d'Artillerie, contenant l'Artillerie Nouvelle, ou les Changemens faits dans l'Artillerie Françoise en 1765; avec l'Exposé et l'Analyse des Obiections qui ont été faites à ces Changemens. 29 folding engraved plates; 6 letterpress tables. [4], xvi, [8], 440, [2] pages, including half-title and errata leaf at end. 4to, 251x196 mm, early 20th-century marbled boards, spine ends damaged; varying browning of text, occasional toning and minor foxing on plates, opening leaves soiled, with small wormholes in blank margins, minor marginal restoration on half-title and title, worming in blank corners of plate 12. Copenhagen: August Frederic Stein for Claude Philibert, 1777

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first edition of an artillery manual based on Charles Tronson du Coudray's 1772 L'Artillerie Nouvelle, which dealt with the reform of the French artillery under Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. Jähns, page 2374.