Art of War in Europe  - 1860

Author: Richard Delafield, under the orders of Jefferson Davis
Full Title: Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856
Published: Washington D.C.: George W. Bowman, 1860

Period 3/4 leather, raised bands with gilt title and rules. Clean.

A scarce volume, issued under the supervision of then Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis.

3/4 leather binding, raised bands in six gilt-ruled compartments, gilt-lettered title on spine, marbled endpapers.  Full color lithographed frontis.  Numerous fine panoramic lithographed views.  A profusion of charts, and diagrams, many large fold-out maps.

Measures approx.  9 1/2" x  11 1/2".  Unpaginated.

 In VG++ condition.  Extremities and joints gently rubbed.  Binding tight.  Very clean internally.

A fascinating volume for military history buffs.

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