Uturbie De Rogicourt - The Little Gunner's Manual. 1785

[URTUBIE DE ROGICOURT ((Théodore-Bernard-Simon Durtubisse, dit d ')])] - The small manual of the artilleryman or instruction by requests & answers on several objects of the artillery, for the use of the gunners, bombers & sappers. Bastia, From the printing press of Sébastien-François Batini, 1785; in-12, 316 pp., contemporary full speckled calfskin binding, silent spine with nerves decorated with flowers, edges painted red. The book is full of folding tables, a board of maneuvers, a board of knots. The author began his military career as a page of the queen, then he was a French general from revolution to empire. He commanded the artillery during the siege of Strasbourg in 1800. Rare work republished several times. This copy was published in Bastia at the same time as the original. Books published in the form of questions and answers are a curiosity, this form was often used in the eighteenth century to popularize a science or a technique.