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Første Afhandling Om at indrette en Artillerie Math stab

Købke, Caspar Bernhard

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  • Binding: Contemporary half-sheep and marbled boards (worn, spine chipped), gilt red morocco label on the front panel lettered c. köbke,
  • Publisher: C.B. Købke
  • Location: [Copenhagen]
  • Date: 1823
  • Seller SKU: 11562
[Copenhagen]: C.B. Købke, 1823. 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.

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