(Poenitz, Carl Eduard). The railways and their use as military operating lines of Pz. XII, 287 pp. With 1 folded lithographic map. 21 x 13 cm. Marbled semi-leather d. Zt. (somewhat rubbed) with gold stamped title. Adorf, Verlags-Bureau, 1853. Nines 304. Holzmann-Bohatta II 468. See Röll IV,139f. – Second (modified) edition. Compared to the first edition of 1842 substantially changed. "With these words (the last sentences of the first issue as quotation) we closed the first version of the present writing a few years ago, but today we have to confess that we were wrong at the time. Only now... have we been put in place on the basis to which we supplied the workpieces in 1842, to continue to build up and propose a military use of the railways, as we already had in mind at that time, but which still lacked some essential condition." (Preface). – Title stamped several times. Little sticky.