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The travels of Ibn Batuta; translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the public library of Cambridge. With notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work.London, printed for the Oriental Translation Committee (colophon: by J.L. Cox). Large 4to (32 x 26). With various passages including the original Arabic text. Later half calf.
The travels of Ibn Batuta; translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the public library of Cambridge. With notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work.London, printed for the Oriental Translation Committee (colophon: by J.L. Cox). Large 4to (32 x 26). With various passages including the original Arabic text. Later half calf.
IBN BATUTA and Samuel LEE (editor). · 1800
€17,500.00 ($19,288.18 | £14,599.65 | ¥3,080,074)
XVIII [=XX], [2], 243, [1] pp.First edition of the first substantial English translation of the travel account of Abu Abdullah Mohammed ibn Batuta (1304-1368/69), known in the West as the Arabian Marco Polo, with extensive footnotes. "While on a pilgrimage to Mecca he made a d...
Gennem Wahhabiternes land paa kamelryg. Beretning om den af det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab planlagte og bekosterde forskningsrejse i Ost- og Centralarabien 1912.Copenhagen, Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1913. 8vo. With a frontispiece showing the author in Arab garb, 88 illustrations in text, most of them reproductions of drawings and photographs by the author, and a folding map loosely inserted in a pocket at the end. Publisher's green cloth.
Gennem Wahhabiternes land paa kamelryg. Beretning om den af det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab planlagte og bekosterde forskningsrejse i Ost- og Centralarabien 1912.Copenhagen, Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1913. 8vo. With a frontispiece showing the author in Arab garb, 88 illustrations in text, most of them reproductions of drawings and photographs by the author, and a folding map loosely inserted in a pocket at the end. Publisher's green cloth.
RAUNKIAER, Barclay. · 1889
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[1], [1 blank], [2], 304 pp.First and only edition, in the original Danish, of an account of a journey through the Arabian peninsula. Sponsored by the Royal Danish Geographical Society, Barclay Raunkiaer (1889-1915) set out to penetrate the hitherto unexplored deserts of south...
[Incipit:] … de ymagine mundi.[Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1472(?)]. Folio (31 x 22 cm).Rubricated throughout and about half of the spaces left for initials filled in by hand in red ink. 19th-century red sheepskin.
[Incipit:] … de ymagine mundi.[Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1472(?)]. Folio (31 x 22 cm).Rubricated throughout and about half of the spaces left for initials filled in by hand in red ink. 19th-century red sheepskin.
HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS (HONORIUS OF AUTUN).
€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)
[46], [1 blank] ll.First edition of Honorius Augustodunensis's (1080-1154) popular Imago mundi, an encyclopaedia of popular cosmology and geography combined with a chronicle of world history. He takes the river Nile as the boundary between Africa and Asia and calls the whole l...
Fortification passagère et permanente [= Erstes Heft]. Artillerie. [=] Zweites Heft.[Berlin?, ca. 1850?]. 2 volumes. Small 4to (21 x 17 cm). Manuscript in German, written in brown ink on paper in a cursive hand mixing Latin and gothic characteristics, the two volumes with about 100 and 12 drawings respectively (mostly pen and ink, but a few in pencil), mostly in the large fore-edge margins left for that purpose, but with 7 in vol. 1 on folding slips tipped onto the leaves. Most show fortification plans but there are also sections, elevations and a few other drawings, including diagrams. Contemporary uniform black half vellum.
Fortification passagère et permanente [= Erstes Heft]. Artillerie. [=] Zweites Heft.[Berlin?, ca. 1850?]. 2 volumes. Small 4to (21 x 17 cm). Manuscript in German, written in brown ink on paper in a cursive hand mixing Latin and gothic characteristics, the two volumes with about 100 and 12 drawings respectively (mostly pen and ink, but a few in pencil), mostly in the large fore-edge margins left for that purpose, but with 7 in vol. 1 on folding slips tipped onto the leaves. Most show fortification plans but there are also sections, elevations and a few other drawings, including diagrams. Contemporary uniform black half vellum.
[MANUSCRIPT]. MAHLENDORFF. · 1848
€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)
[2 blank], [1], [3 blank], [40], [8 blank], [314], [12 blank]; [2 blank], [1], [1 blank], [81], [3 blank], [177], [9 blank] pp., with the first and last leaf of each volume pasted down.An extensively illustrated 2-volume manuscript manual on fortification (vol. 1) and artiller...
Traité de fortification.[Northern Germany?, ca. 1685/1700?]. 4to & small folio (23 x 18 cm). Manuscript in French, written in black ink on paper in an easily readable cursive hand, with the title in a pen and ink decorated cartouche, about 45 pen and ink drawings (14 full-page and 8 larger folding, 2 of the folding ones in red and black ink with coloured washes, one of the colour folding leaves 36 x 27 cm), mostly showing fortification plans. Contemporary or near-contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.
Traité de fortification.[Northern Germany?, ca. 1685/1700?]. 4to & small folio (23 x 18 cm). Manuscript in French, written in black ink on paper in an easily readable cursive hand, with the title in a pen and ink decorated cartouche, about 45 pen and ink drawings (14 full-page and 8 larger folding, 2 of the folding ones in red and black ink with coloured washes, one of the colour folding leaves 36 x 27 cm), mostly showing fortification plans. Contemporary or near-contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.
[FORTIFICATION - MANUSCRIPT]. · 1633
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[1], [3 blank], 164 pp., ll. 165-171, [172], pp. 173-197, 197 [bis], 198-289, [24 blank, partly numbered].An extensive manuscript manual on fortification in French, discussing the design, construction and defence of a wide variety of regular and irregular fortifications, gates...
Lexicon galeno-chymico-pharmaceuticum, of apothekers woordenboek.Amsterdam, Gerrit de Groot and the widow of Salomon Schouten and sons, 1755. 2 volumes. Large 4to (27 x 21 cm). With engraved frontispiece and an engraving in text. 19th-century red calf.
Lexicon galeno-chymico-pharmaceuticum, of apothekers woordenboek.Amsterdam, Gerrit de Groot and the widow of Salomon Schouten and sons, 1755. 2 volumes. Large 4to (27 x 21 cm). With engraved frontispiece and an engraving in text. 19th-century red calf.
ELZEVIER, Kornelis. · 2000
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[20], 1105, [1 blank]; [4], 966 pp.First edition of a 2000-page pharmaceutical dictionary compiled by the Dutch physician and poet Kornelis Elzevier (1717-1761). It uses the Latin terms for an enormous number of compounds and substances, with brief remarks in Dutch on their pr...
La fortification demonstree et reduicte en art ... reveue corrige et augmentee par A. Errard ...[Amsterdam (“livres” 2 & 4: “Paris” = Amsterdam), Johannes Jansonnius?], “1619” [= 1622?]-1622. 1 volume in 4 “livres”. Folio (33 x 21 cm). With an engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, 9 engraved and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Recased in contemporary vellum.
La fortification demonstree et reduicte en art ... reveue corrige et augmentee par A. Errard ...[Amsterdam (“livres” 2 & 4: “Paris” = Amsterdam), Johannes Jansonnius?], “1619” [= 1622?]-1622. 1 volume in 4 “livres”. Folio (33 x 21 cm). With an engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, 9 engraved and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Recased in contemporary vellum.
ERRARD, Jean. · 1670
€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)
[6], “70” [= 71], [1 blank] ll. including the integral title page, plus 38 plates.The first and only edition printed in the Netherlands, with a false Paris imprint and not previously recognized, of "the first independent French work on fortification" (Jähns), by Jean Errard, m...
Missive van zyn hoogheid [aan de heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. 24 mey 1784].[The Hague?,] 1784.With:(2) WILLIAM V of Orange. Missive van zyne hoogheid met een detail van de reedenen en motiven waarom niet voor de resolutie van den 7 deezer een groot aantal troupes naar de frontieren had gezonden. Commiss. 25 mey 1784.[The Hague?,] 1784.(3) [FORTIFICATION]. Rapport van gecommiteerdens nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.[The Hague?,] 1784.(4) [FORTIFICATION]. Resolutie op het rapport nopens den staat van 'slands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. 26 november 1784.[The Hague?,] 1784.(5) [FORTIFICATION]. Bylaagen gehorende tot het rapport van gecommiteerden nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenaalen, ter vergadering van hun edele groot mog. Overgenoomen den 23 july 1784. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.[The Hague?,] 1784. With 7 folding tables.(6) [FORTIFICATION]. Extract uit het register der resolutien van de hoog mogende heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Jovis den 25 november 1784Including: Memorie van consideratien en elucidatien van den Raade van Staate …, op het rapport …, nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenalen …[The Hague?,] 1784.6 publications in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Missive van zyn hoogheid [aan de heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. 24 mey 1784].[The Hague?,] 1784.With:(2) WILLIAM V of Orange. Missive van zyne hoogheid met een detail van de reedenen en motiven waarom niet voor de resolutie van den 7 deezer een groot aantal troupes naar de frontieren had gezonden. Commiss. 25 mey 1784.[The Hague?,] 1784.(3) [FORTIFICATION]. Rapport van gecommiteerdens nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.[The Hague?,] 1784.(4) [FORTIFICATION]. Resolutie op het rapport nopens den staat van 'slands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. 26 november 1784.[The Hague?,] 1784.(5) [FORTIFICATION]. Bylaagen gehorende tot het rapport van gecommiteerden nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenaalen, ter vergadering van hun edele groot mog. Overgenoomen den 23 july 1784. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.[The Hague?,] 1784. With 7 folding tables.(6) [FORTIFICATION]. Extract uit het register der resolutien van de hoog mogende heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Jovis den 25 november 1784Including: Memorie van consideratien en elucidatien van den Raade van Staate …, op het rapport …, nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenalen …[The Hague?,] 1784.6 publications in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
WILLIAM V of Orange. · 1781
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
10, [2 blank]; 5, [3 blank]; 63, [1]; 6, [1 blank], [1]; 288; 55, [1 blank] pp.Very rare collection of publications regarding the state of the fortifications in the Dutch Republic. When the Dutch Republic lost control of the so-called barrier fortresses in the Austrian Netherl...
Tractatus de architectura militari.Salzburg, Joannis Baptistae Mayr, 1700. Large 4yo (30 x 22 cm) With an engraved frontispiece, 17 engraved plates and 1 letterpress folding table. Spine reinforced with orange paper, with the frontispiece serving as provisional front wrapper and last leaf as back wrapper.
Tractatus de architectura militari.Salzburg, Joannis Baptistae Mayr, 1700. Large 4yo (30 x 22 cm) With an engraved frontispiece, 17 engraved plates and 1 letterpress folding table. Spine reinforced with orange paper, with the frontispiece serving as provisional front wrapper and last leaf as back wrapper.
TÖRRING-JETTENBACH, Joseph Ignaz Felix and Edmund EGG. · 1682
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[12], 153, [4], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition, in the original Latin, of the dissertation on military architecture by the German mathematics and philosophy student Joseph Ignaz Felix Törring-Jettenbach (1682-1763), under supervision of the professor of mathematics Edmund...
Heutiges tages übliche Kriges Bau-kunst... Including: DÖGEN, Matthias. Streit-bau-Kunst, ...Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1648. Folio in 4s (31 x 21 cm). With an integral engraved, illustrated general title-page, a letterpress divisional title-page for part 2, 29 double-page engraved plates, 40 double-page engraved plates, 5 woodcut decorated gothic initials. With 3 unsigned quires with letterpress tables of data made for this edition, but lacking in many copies. Set in fraktur types with incidental roman. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges, manuscript spine title, remains of 1 of 4 green cloth ties.
Heutiges tages übliche Kriges Bau-kunst... Including: DÖGEN, Matthias. Streit-bau-Kunst, ...Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1648. Folio in 4s (31 x 21 cm). With an integral engraved, illustrated general title-page, a letterpress divisional title-page for part 2, 29 double-page engraved plates, 40 double-page engraved plates, 5 woodcut decorated gothic initials. With 3 unsigned quires with letterpress tables of data made for this edition, but lacking in many copies. Set in fraktur types with incidental roman. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges, manuscript spine title, remains of 1 of 4 green cloth ties.
DÖGEN, Matthias. · 1605
€2,350.00 ($2,590.13 | £1,960.53 | ¥413,610)
[14], [2 blank], 56, [8], 57-96, [4], 97-196, [8], 197-475, [1 blank] pp. plus plates.First edition, in the original German, of an extensive, influential and extremely well illustrated treatise on fortification, by the Brandenburg fortifications engineer Matthias Dögen (1605/0...
Grondbeginselen der vestingbouw, volgens de verschillende manieren van versterken van Pagan, Vauban en Coehoorn. Geconstrueerd getekend en beschreven door C C van Hooff. [The Hague], 1796. Folio. With a calligraphic title-page and 19 folding drawings (mostly about 32.5 x 51 cm, 6 longer: 78 to 138 cm, the longest assembled from 2 pieces before drawing) with 45 numbered figures, showing fortification plans and sections in black and red ink with coloured washes. With an 1857(?) photograph of a (ca. 1795?) miniature oval portrait of the author and 4 documents concerning the manuscript and the author's family (1933-1965), all loosely inserted. Contemporary half, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Grondbeginselen der vestingbouw, volgens de verschillende manieren van versterken van Pagan, Vauban en Coehoorn. Geconstrueerd getekend en beschreven door C C van Hooff. [The Hague], 1796. Folio. With a calligraphic title-page and 19 folding drawings (mostly about 32.5 x 51 cm, 6 longer: 78 to 138 cm, the longest assembled from 2 pieces before drawing) with 45 numbered figures, showing fortification plans and sections in black and red ink with coloured washes. With an 1857(?) photograph of a (ca. 1795?) miniature oval portrait of the author and 4 documents concerning the manuscript and the author's family (1933-1965), all loosely inserted. Contemporary half, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
[FORTIFICATION]. HOOFF, Cornelis Christiaan van. · 1778
€12,000.00 ($13,226.18 | £10,011.19 | ¥2,112,051)
[1], [1 blank], 81, [1 blank], [1], [3 blank] pp. plus 19 integral blank ll. with drawings tipped onto them.Unpublished manuscript for a complete introductory course in the design and construction of fortifications, with 19 large folding leaves with meticulously drawn fortific...
Fortification: wie ein Ort nach der wahren und fundamental-Kunst zubefestigen, ...Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1627. With an engraved title-page with the German title on a letterpress slip, 42 numbered double-page engraved plates and a double-page letterpress table.With: (2) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Geometria, auss der Frantzösischen in die Teutsche Sprach, ... ubersetzt.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1627. With an engraved title-page with the German title on a letterpress slip, 47 numbered double-page engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. 20th-century half tan leather.
Fortification: wie ein Ort nach der wahren und fundamental-Kunst zubefestigen, ...Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1627. With an engraved title-page with the German title on a letterpress slip, 42 numbered double-page engraved plates and a double-page letterpress table.With: (2) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Geometria, auss der Frantzösischen in die Teutsche Sprach, ... ubersetzt.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1627. With an engraved title-page with the German title on a letterpress slip, 47 numbered double-page engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. 20th-century half tan leather.
MAROLOIS, Samuel. · 1572
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
Engraved title-page + 111, [1 blank] pp. + a folding table; engraved title-page + 187, [1 blank] pp.First German edition of the first systematic manual of Dutch fortification, with the accompanying second German edition of a manual of geometry, both by Samuel Marolois (ca. 157...
La nouvelle fortification ...Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevier, 1645. Folio. With architectural title-page engraved by Adriaen Matham, 52 half-page engravings plus about 42 repeats in the text, and numerous letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary(?) mottled calf. Rebacked and with restorations in sheepskin.
La nouvelle fortification ...Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevier, 1645. Folio. With architectural title-page engraved by Adriaen Matham, 52 half-page engravings plus about 42 repeats in the text, and numerous letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary(?) mottled calf. Rebacked and with restorations in sheepskin.
GOLDMANN, Nicolaus. · 1643
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[16], 224 pp.First French edition (with the engraved title-page new for this edition) of an instruction manual for designing fortifications, with an emphasis on drawing their plans, profiles, perspective views, etc., first published in Latin (also by the Elzeviers) in 1643 usi...
Nieuwe vestingbouw, op een natte of lage horisont; welke op driederleije manieren getoont word in 't fortificeren der binnengrote van de Fransche royale seshoek...Leeuwarden, heirs and widow of Hendrik Rintjes, 1702. Folio. With 12 (of 14) engraved plates, including 6 folding and 3 double-page. Contemporary calf, with blind-stamped centrepiece on both sides.
Nieuwe vestingbouw, op een natte of lage horisont; welke op driederleije manieren getoont word in 't fortificeren der binnengrote van de Fransche royale seshoek...Leeuwarden, heirs and widow of Hendrik Rintjes, 1702. Folio. With 12 (of 14) engraved plates, including 6 folding and 3 double-page. Contemporary calf, with blind-stamped centrepiece on both sides.
COEHOORN, Menno van. · 1641
€1,350.00 ($1,487.95 | £1,126.26 | ¥237,606)
[16], 181, [2], [1 blank] pp.Second edition of the most important work on fortification by Menno van Coehoorn (1641-1704), Frisian artillery officer and military engineer. It introduced a new Dutch manner of fortification and siege warfare, covering both defence and offence, a...
La fortification perpendiculaire, ou essai sur plusieurs manieres de fortifier la ligne droite, le triangle, le quarré, & tous les polygônes, ...Paris, Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1776-1778. 4 (of 5) volumes. Large 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece in volume 1 and with a total of 87 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
La fortification perpendiculaire, ou essai sur plusieurs manieres de fortifier la ligne droite, le triangle, le quarré, & tous les polygônes, ...Paris, Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1776-1778. 4 (of 5) volumes. Large 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece in volume 1 and with a total of 87 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
MONTALEMBERT, Marc-René de. · 1714
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[8], XL, 225, [7]; [6], XVI, 322, [4]; [12], XL, 248, [2]; [4], 397, [3] pp.First edition of a very extensive work on fortification, by the French military engineer Marc-René, marquis de Montalembert (1714-1800). "Viewing fortresses as nothing more than immense permanent batte...
Freundlicher Wett-streit der französischen, holländischen und teutschen Krieges-Bau-Kunst, worinnen die Befestigungs-Manier des Hrn. von Vauban an Neu-Breisach, die beste Manier des Hrn. von Coehoorn, und Zweyerley Vostellungen der von L.C. Sturm publicirten, und nach des weit-berühmten Hrn. George Rimplers Maximen eingerichteten Manier, ...Augsburg, Jeremia Wolffens, printed by Peter Detleffsen, 1718. Folio. With 19 engraved plates (18 folding and 1 double-page), numbered I-XIX, and 1 woodcut illustration in text. Modern paper boards.
Freundlicher Wett-streit der französischen, holländischen und teutschen Krieges-Bau-Kunst, worinnen die Befestigungs-Manier des Hrn. von Vauban an Neu-Breisach, die beste Manier des Hrn. von Coehoorn, und Zweyerley Vostellungen der von L.C. Sturm publicirten, und nach des weit-berühmten Hrn. George Rimplers Maximen eingerichteten Manier, ...Augsburg, Jeremia Wolffens, printed by Peter Detleffsen, 1718. Folio. With 19 engraved plates (18 folding and 1 double-page), numbered I-XIX, and 1 woodcut illustration in text. Modern paper boards.
STURM, Leonhard Christoph. · 1669
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[10], 66 pp.First edition of a work comparing the Dutch, French and German fortification systems, written by the German architect and theologian Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669-1719), "the foremost German architectural theorist of the early 18th century" (Neville). He compares ...
Modus artis fortificatoriae Belgicus, Niederländisch Festung bawen, ..., zum andern mal in Druck gegeben, an vielen Orten corrigirt, vermehrt und verbessert.Dresden, Wolfgang Seyffert, 1630. 4to. With about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text. 20th-century half parchment, with marbled paper covering most of the spine.
Modus artis fortificatoriae Belgicus, Niederländisch Festung bawen, ..., zum andern mal in Druck gegeben, an vielen Orten corrigirt, vermehrt und verbessert.Dresden, Wolfgang Seyffert, 1630. 4to. With about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text. 20th-century half parchment, with marbled paper covering most of the spine.
EYLEND, Martin. · 1600
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[4], 100 pp.Rare second(?) edition, in the original German, of a brief compendious handbook of fortification following the Dutch methods and tactics. In the years 1600 to 1625, the Dutch Prince of Orange, Maurits van Nassau (1567-1625), proved the efficacy of the new Dutch ide...
L'architecture militaire ou la fortification nouvelle.Paris, Toussainct Quinet, 1640. Folio. With an engraved title-page, 35 double-page engraved illustration plates containing 185 numbered figures, and 8 double-page letterpress tables. Contemporary vellum.
L'architecture militaire ou la fortification nouvelle.Paris, Toussainct Quinet, 1640. Folio. With an engraved title-page, 35 double-page engraved illustration plates containing 185 numbered figures, and 8 double-page letterpress tables. Contemporary vellum.
FREITAG, Adam.
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[8], 179, [1] pp.Third(?) French edition, the first one published outside the Netherlands, of the best, most detailed, best illustrated and most influential handbook of fortification from the Dutch golden age. Besides numerous fortification plans, profiles, sections and perspe...
Neuer Vestungs-Bau.Düsseldorff, Jacobus von Wesel (colophon: printed by the heirs of Johann Kattepoel), 1709. 4to. With 14 (of 15) folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned sheepskin.
Neuer Vestungs-Bau.Düsseldorff, Jacobus von Wesel (colophon: printed by the heirs of Johann Kattepoel), 1709. 4to. With 14 (of 15) folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned sheepskin.
COEHOORN, Menno van. · 1648
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
[38], 203, [1] pp. plus plates.First German edition (second issue) of one of the greatest classics of the art of fortification, by the Inspector General of Dutch fortifications and Master General of the artillery, Menno van Coehoorn. While the Dutch had established themselves ...
Mémoire sur la fortification permanente, pour servir a la construction d'un front de fortification sur le terrain, ... Nouvelle édition.Saint Petersburg, Pluchart et comp., 1818. 2 volumes. Large 4to (26 x 21.5 cm & 27.5 x 22 cm). With 20 (of 21?) engraved plates (13 double-page and 7 large folding), and 3 full-page tables. Contemporary half-calf, gold-tooled spines.
Mémoire sur la fortification permanente, pour servir a la construction d'un front de fortification sur le terrain, ... Nouvelle édition.Saint Petersburg, Pluchart et comp., 1818. 2 volumes. Large 4to (26 x 21.5 cm & 27.5 x 22 cm). With 20 (of 21?) engraved plates (13 double-page and 7 large folding), and 3 full-page tables. Contemporary half-calf, gold-tooled spines.
SÉA. · 1818
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[12], XIX, [1 blank], 284, [3], [1 blank] pp. plus plates.First edition, in the very rare 1818 issue, of a Saint Petersburg fortification manual first issued in 1811, including the atlas volume of 20 engraved plates, which is rare in all issues and editions. The main series of...