Nöthig=und Nützliche Känntnisse für Officiers

Nöthig=und Nützliche Känntnisse für Officiers

[Austria, ca. 1770].

[6], 313 [i.e.322], [10] p., [68] hand colored leaves, [2] hand colored p. of plates ([30] fold.) : ill., map ; 23 cm.

MSS L2016F94 [Bound]

(OCoLC)953416006

Title vignette.
Text within triple border.
Frontispiece signed: Fr. Kinsky scrib & delin.
At end of "Eingang": author's gilt initials "FK."
Number 256 repeated in paging; [7] pages unnumbered; page 216 blank.
Author's unpublished instruction manual for teaching young officers the basic military subjects by the Austrian military reformer and scientist, General Count Kinsky, who commanded the Imperial Military Academy in Vienna beginning in 1779.
Chapters includes all branches of mathematics, cartography, surveying, fortification, pyrotechnics, mechanics, hydraulics, etc. with tasks to be solved by the cadets.
Includes index.
Bound in red morocco with 6 medallion portraits of Roman emperors gilt stamped on both covers; gilt with partially foliage design on back cover; gilt spine divided into 6 compartments by raised bands.
Ownership stamp with Kinsky arms on title: "F U K."

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