Author: CONGREVE, COLONEL [SIR WILLIAM]
Title: The Details of the Rocket System: Shewing the Various Applications of this Weapon, Both for Sea and Land Service, and its Different Uses in the Field and in Sieges; illustrated by plates of the principal equipment, exercises and cases of actual service, with general instructions for its application, and a demonstration of the comparative economy of the system.
Description: London, Whiting. 1814, First Edition. Hardcover, Oblong. Book, [6], 21 pages, 7 coloured plates (of 13). Published for the information of the officers of the Rocket Corps, and others whom it may concern. This copy lacks the front cover and spine and 6 of the 13 plates. Prelimary pages are loose, old inscription dated 1837 on front endpaper. The 7 beautifully hand coloured plates whiah are present show: The equipment of a Rocket Ammunition Horse; Rocket infantry in line of march, and in action; the mode of using rockets in bombardment; the mode of using rockets in bombardment, from earth works, without apparatus; a rocket ambuscade; the use of rockets in the attack and defense of fortified places; of the use of rockets by infantry against cavalry, and in covering storming of a fortress. A very rare military history book. Good-.

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