(Friedrich Georg August Prince of Hesse). The latest invention for the comfortable and functional fieldequipment for Officiere also set up for the part for travel lovers. XVI, 119 p. With 10 folded copper plates on blue paper according to the author's drawings and 2 folded woodcut tables. 17.5 x 10 cm. New marbled cardboard tape in the style d. Z. with gold-embossed RSchild. O. O. and Dr. 1794. VD18 11478578. Holzmann-Bohatta VII, 3247 (since. probably wrong on 1792). See Hess. Biographies, I, 493. – Only edition. In his preface Prince Friedrich also refers to the writing "What is necessary for every officer to know during a campaign?" (written by Heinrich Medicus, Karlsruhe, 1788; cf. Holzm./Boh. IV, 11778). In addition, he describes the necessary equipment of an officer, including tent, folding bed, table and chair, field night chair (also foldable), tent stove, coffee and "bouteillen box", field kitchen box, transportable writing cabinet, pack carts as well as numerous other smaller and useful objects of daily use during the campaign. The copper with detailed representations of these things. Friedrich Prinz von Hessen (1759-1808) was the son of Landgrave Georg Wilhelm and the latest invention for the comfortable and functional fieldequipment for officers also set up as part for travel lovers brother-in-law of Landgraf Ludwig X., since 1806 Grand Duke Ludwig I. Since 1767 Prince Friedrich was active in Hesse, Hanover and France as an officer, but also tried as a writer from plays. – Tables in the joints partly slightly torn, Table 1 a bit nitty and dirty.