A Treatise on the Defence of Fortified Places

Written under the direction and published by command of Buonaparte, For the Instruction and Guidance of the Officers of the French Army

by M. Carnot

translated from the French by Lt. Col. Baron de Montalambert

London:  T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1814 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Garnet red three-quarter leatherbound covers are mostly clean, with gilt ruling, ornament and text.  
• Boards show some edgewear.  Corners are bumped and frayed, with exposed board.
• Spine with raised bands has gilt text and is bright with bumped ends.
• Binding is firm.  
• Custom decorated end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Frontispiece, a portrait of Carnot, is present and has intact tissue guard.  
• Portrait of Buonaparte with facsimile signature and tissue guard follows pg. 80.
• Ownership stamp on half Title page.
• Inked name, very faint, on Title page.  See photos.
• Interior exhibits some age-toning, scattered foxing.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have gilt along head. 
• PS2023.0628

234 pages. 5 1/8 x 8 inches

First English translation of the military engineering work by pioneer mathematician, physicist, and politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, a leader in the French revolutionary army.  Carnot's treatise on defense drew from examples in both ancient and modern history, and it was integral to Napoleon's army's strategy.  The translator, a French nobleman serving in the British Army, with an English-speaking audience in mind, abridged the original somewhat. 

A handsome three-quarter leather binding, with Napoleonic ornaments - crowns, laurel wreaths, 'N' - decorating the spine.

Printed in London by C. Rowarth, Bell-yard, Temple-Bar.

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