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DARCY, Patrick, known as the Chevalier d’ARCY.
An Essay on a Theory of Artillery.
Paris: Michel Lambert, 1760.
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An Essay on a Theory of Artillery.
Paris: Michel Lambert, 1760.
(5)-VIII-159 pp., (1) ff., on heavy laid paper, 4 plates. Contemporary red morocco, gold coat of arms in the centre of the covers, ribbed spine decorated with gold panels featuring a repeated anchored cross, gold title, gold fillet on the edges, triple gold fillet as a border, gilt garland on the endpapers, marbled paper endpapers (very slight wear to the binding, ink smudging on the first few folios, a tiny hole on folios 15–16)
First edition.
Duke of Choiseul-Stainville. From the library of Madame de la Borde, poet, lady-in-waiting and reader to the Queen, born Adélaide-Suzanne de Vismes in 1753, with her bookplate engraved on the inside front cover, annotated in ink: ‘1823 Château de la Val. JB Madden’.
Old sales label pasted underneath.
Old handwritten note on the author on one of the endpapers.
ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES. POLIORCÉTIQUE.
A fine copy with wide margins and bearing the coat of arms of the Duke of Choiseul-Stainville, minister to Louis XV (azure, a gold cross, flanked by twenty gold bars of the same, surmounted by a gold escutcheon bearing a red anchor cross).
Complete with 4 black etched fold-out plates, bound at the end, with tables and geometric figures in-t.
Treatise on gunpowder and the influence of air on range by the Irish-born mathematician and military man, Darcy (1725–1779), including descriptions of experiments to determine the range of shots with charges and bullets of various sizes, or the recoil of cannons.