Manual para la Preparacion de las Tropas para el Combate

Mexico City, 1897. Very good.. 109,ii pp., plus folding plate. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine labels. Light wear to edges and spine. Some toning and dust soiling; an occasional fox mark. Unrecorded Mexican translation of an army training and tactics manual by a Russian general. Mikhael Dragomirov was a career military man and a high ranking officer in the Russian army for the entire second half of the 19th century. During his career he authored several works of history, memoir, and instruction. The present version was translated into Spanish for use of the Mexican army by Miguel Ruelas from a later French edition. Not in OCLC.