Første Afhandling Om at indrette en Artillerie Math stab.
[Copenhagen], C.B. Købke 1823-5.
Folio (358 x 230 mm.). Later pencil pagination: 193, [1 blank]p. and FOLDING PLATE of a cross-section of a seventy-cannon warship. In a single cursive hand, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX FULL-PAGE AND OVER ONE HUNDRED TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS COMPLETED IN WATERCOLOR, tables and diagrams in the text. Evaluations, notes and corrections in five contemporary hands.
Contemporary half-sheep and marbled boards (worn, spine chipped), gilt red morocco label on the front panel lettered c. köbke, gilt-ruled spine, edges sprinkled blue.
Naval artillery exercises compiled by the teenage C.B. Købke (1808-54) and graded by his professors at the Royal Danish Naval Academy. He later commanded warships, became a decorated captain and published on national defense. The present curriculum reflects the Danish navy’s response to the disastrous Gunboat War with Britain (1807-14).
The lessons on long-range and portable weapons — cannons, howitzers, mortars, falconets, rifles, pistols and hand grenades — concern their design, gauging, inspection, testing, transportation, shipboard locations and operation. A section devoted to gunpowder illustrates an explosives lab and the plan, profile and cross-section of a loaded fireship. In good condition.
¶Topsøe-Jensen, Personalhistoriske Oplysninger om Officerer af det Danske Søofficerskorps 224-5; see Pohler’s Bibliotheca historico-militaris III: 747.
Price: $12,500.00