Remarques D'un Officier d'Artillerie Hollandais sur un article de la Brochure qui a pour titre: Observations & Expériences sur l'Artillerie; Imprimée à Aléthopolis, chez Isaac Neuman.
Maestrict [i.e. Maastricht].
Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1776.
First edition.
8vo.
22pp. With a half-title. Uncut in modern red half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Lightly dust-soiled.
The sole edition of a martial pamphlet by Swiss gunfounder in Dutch service David Emanuel Musly (1701-1777) critiquing Irish soldier and mathematician Patrice d'Arcy's (1725-1799) work on the physics and chemistry of gunpowder mixtures, Observations & Expériences sur l'Artillerie (1751).
OCLC records copies at just three locations (Berlin, Copenhagen, and Maastricht).
£ 500.00
Antiquates Ref: 22817
OCLC records copies at just three locations (Berlin, Copenhagen, and Maastricht).
