(HEAVY ARTILLERY).

Instruction for Heavy Artillery; Prepared by a Board of Officers, for the Use of the Army of the United States.

Washington: Governmant Printing Office, 1863.

39 plates. xiv, 253pp. 12mo, original cloth; (commemorative book plate, cloth spotted, lettering on spine faded). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. Very good.

This volume was prepared under the direction of the United States War Department and approved by Abraham Lincoln. It was adopted by the War Department for the instruction of Union troops using heavy artillery during the Civil War. The plates depict different kinds of heavy artillery.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Language: English

Price: $500.00

Item #173889