ROCKETRY - JOSEPH BEM.

Erfahrungen über die Congrevschen Brand = Raketen bis zum Jahre 1819 in den Königl. Polnischen Artillerie gesammelt... berichtet von Joseph Bem. Neben den Französischen Original=Text in Teutscher Uebersetzung und mit beigefügten Anmerkungen der Angaben glaubwürdiger Schriftsteller herausgegeben von M. Schuh.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1820.

4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. X,(2),78,(2) pp., 2 large folded engraved plates with many figs. Some scattered brownspots and lower right corners on the last leaves with some browning. Printed in 2 columns with French and German text.

Scarce first edition. Joseph Bem (1794-1850) was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriotic movements. Like Tadeusz Kosciuszko (who fought in the American War of Independence) and Jan Henryk Dabrowski (who fought alongside Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy and in the French Invasion of Russia), Bem fought outside Poland's borders anywhere his leadership and military skills were needed.

Order-nr.: 57645