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PAIXHANS Henri Joseph :
"Nouvelle Force Maritime , et Application de cette Force à quelques Parties du Service de l'Armée de Terre ; ou Essai sur l'État actuel des moyens de la Force Maritime...."
.: Paris, Bachelier, Libraire , Quai des Augustins, 1822. In-4°, 25,5 x 20 cm, (4)nn pp + xv pp + 458 pp + 7 folding plates. Bound in contemporary half roan , boards covered with marbled paper, smooth gilt spine. Expertly rebacked, a fine copy. On the half-title the author's manuscript ex-dono '' de la part de l'auteur ''. Rare and highly interesting treatise on the history of ship artillery by the inventor of the first naval gun designed to fire explosive shells. (the paixhans gun).. The Napoleontic era saw the development of the shell. The first French trials were made in 1793, in 1797 at Cherbourg they were tried against ship targets. Also the first American steam ships designed by Fulton are mentioned. The United States were one of the first countries to adopt the Paixhans design which was to be superseded in 1849 by the Dahlgren gun. The book belonged to the library of Louis Raymond de Montainac. There is however no proof of this provenance in the book. Ce livre faisait partie de la bibliothèque de Louis Raymond de Montaignac de Chauvance. Mais c'est une provenance non attestée. (See Polak - Bibliographie Maritime Française - item 7277)..
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1 book(s) with the same title
Nouvelle Force Maritime, et Application de cette Force a quelques Parties du Service de L'Armée de Terre: Essai sur L'État actuel des moyens de la Force maritime" Sur une Espece nouvelle D'Artillerie de Mer, quidétruirait promptenment les Vaissaux ... - [INVENTION OF THE CANON PAIXHANS]
Paris, Bachelier, 1822. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps on titlepage. (4),XV,458 pp. and 7 large folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots, plates with marginal brownspots. With the stamped monogram of the Danish king Frederik VI on inside frontcover. printed on good paper and broadmargined.
Scarce first edition in which Paixhans describes his invention og the so-called Paixhans-gun, or in French: Canon Paixhans, which was the first naval gun using explosives shells.""General Paixhans made importent improvements in the construction of heavy ordnance, and also in the projectiles, in the carriages, and in the mode of working the guns. The Paixhans-guns are especially adapted for the projection of shells and hollow shot, and were the first adopted in France about the year 1824. Similiar pieces of ordonance have since been introduced into the British Service. They are suitable either for ships of war, or for fortresses which defends coasts...""(Penny Encyclopedia)
