Delafield R. (Colonel) : Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856, by Colonel R. Delafield, U.S.A., and Major of the Corps of Engineers, from His Notes and Observations made as a Member of a “Military Commission to the Theater of War in Europe,” Under the Orders of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, Washington: George W. Bowman, printer, 1860. Qto. Hb. Additional chromo -lithograph title page, chromo & monochrome plates, folding maps, plans & diagrams, some tinted. Together with : Mordecai A. (Major) : Military Commission to Europe in 1855/56, Ordnance Dept. 1860. Tinted folding lithograph & other plates. Schon J. : Rifled Infantry Arms - A Brief Description of the Modern System of Small Arms, 1855. Folding plates featuring aspects of firearms. Both volumes qto. in contemp. cloth.

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Bindings worn with detached spines. Text blocks generally tight and clean except where one or two folding illustrations protrude from the fore edge.