Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)

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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
MANUSCRIT largely autograph with numerous DRAWINGS and Sketches, [Profiles of Field Fortifications], [ca. 1817]; 32 leaves or 44 pages in-fol. of which about 20 are entirely autograph and the rest are copiously annotated in pencil and ink (watermarks Iping 1813, Golding & Snelgrove 1815, T Edmonds 1816, J Whatman W Balston & C 1816, Radway 1815, and the "Britannia"), in bundled quires ["Bundle No. 2"] and bound together with a pink silk ribbon sealed with a red wax seal with the arms of Count Bertrand; in red morocco slipcase. Precious manuscript of sketches and calculations accompanied by notes for the Essay on field fortification, on which Napoleon worked on St. Helena. Preparation of the plates to illustrate this military work planned by Napoleon on military constructions, elaborated with the help of general BERTRAND. This manuscript includes more than fifty figures, more or less elaborate, of which nearly half are by Napoleon himself: profiles of redoubts (with scale), plans of military camps for a few thousand men indicating distances, locations and dimensions of redoubts, plans of sections of walls, embankments, trenches, etc., and in particular two sketches of profiles with three rows of fire, with military silhouettes at the firing points. Most of these figures are numbered, captioned and accompanied by numerous calculations. Provenance General BERTRAND's archives; then Eugène ROSSIGNOL's estate (May 22-23, 1997, n° 601, with its dry stamp).
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