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DELAFIELD, Richard, Colonel.
Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, & 1856.
Publisher: George W. Bowman for the House of Representatives, 1861
Stock code: 71585
Price: £150 Currency Conversion
First edition of this important report on the Crimean War, compiled by the Delafield Commission which included George B. McClellan, who had issued his own report in 1857. Delafield had been the first cadet to qualify from the United States Military Academy with merit; he acted as assistant engineer in the construction of Hampton Roads defences 1819-24, and was in charge of fortifications and surveys in the Mississippi River Delta area from 1824-32. While superintending repairs on the Cumberland Road, east of the Ohio River, he designed and built Dunlap's Creek Bridge in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, which was the first cast-iron tubular-arch bridge in the United States. He was appointed superintendent of the Military Academy after the fire in 1838, and designed the new buildings and the new cadet uniform that first displayed the castle insignia. From 1846-55, he superintended the construction of coastal defences for New York Harbour, and following his return from Europe he was again superintendent of the USMA, taking charge of the harbour defences he had constructed at New York during the Civil War.
Quarto (289 × 220 mm) Modern black diced cloth, green leather labels. Tinted lithographic decorative title and 23 other lithographic plates, most tinted, 2 folding and two with some hand-colour, 57 folding maps, plans and diagrams, numerous illustrations to the text. Unprepossessing modern binding, the usual browning of the text, and splits to those folding maps on thin stock, but complete and sound.
