Inscribed by the author for Count Theodor Baillet de Latour

Miller, M[oritz] von. Vorlesungen über angewandte Taktik zum Unterrichte und zum Selbststudium [...]. 1ter [und 2ter] Theil.

Freiburg/Breisgau, Herder, 1833.

2 vols. in 1 (4to) and atlas (folio). VIII, X, (2), 104 pp. (4), XII, 206, (2) pp. Contemporary red morocco with elaborately gilt spine and covers. Gilt title to spine, leading edges and inner dentelle gilt. All edges gilt. Atlas contains 32 lithographed maps and plans (some folding or colored) with lithogr. title. Stored loosely in contemporary red half morocco portfolio with giltstamped covers and title.

 4,500.00

First edition of Miller's principal work on military tactics. Finely bound copy, inscribed by the author for Count Theodor Baillet de Latour (1780-1848), later the Austrian minister of war. Full-page autograph inscription by Miller, Colonel of the Royal Württembergian general staff, on front flyleaf; recipient's signature on title page. Baillet de Latour himself had been head of the military staff in the army of the Crown Prince of Württemberg in 1814; in 1815, he was made field marshal's lieutenant (major general) in the Austrian army. Created minister of war in 1846, he was lynched by revolutionaries during the riots of 1848.

Portfolio slightly dusty and bumped, otherwise in fine condition.

References

Katalog der k. k. Kriegs-Bibliothek (1853), 161.

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