MILITARIA. - Lot 44

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MILITARIA. - Lot 44
MILITARIA. Artillery course. 1876. Manuscript notebook with 38 bound leaves including 2 blank leaves, paper cover. Square in-8 format. Grey paper cover. Contains notes taken by a military officer of three artillery courses given in 1876 by two captains and a colonel (captains Lachèns and Jouffrey, colonel Astier). The notes contain calculations, some equations and angles. The drawings are used by the author to illustrate the various firing mechanisms in use in England, Italy, Germany and Austria. Consists of three parts. The first explains the profiling of gun chambers for the sliding of projectiles. The second deals with foreign artillery, describing projectiles, their configuration and the activation of their mechanisms. The last part explains elements used in battle, such as chivalry, sabres, swords and bayonets. This last section also includes an explanation of the weapons of France, with gun chambers and their operation. Some leaves are marked with the lesson number at the top of the page, which indicates that the notes were taken in a military school during the first half of 1876.
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