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De l'attaque et de la defense des places...The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1737. With: (2) VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de. De l'attaque et de la defense des places... tome second. ...The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1742.2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). Ad 1 with 36 folding engraved plates and ad 2 with 11 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
De l'attaque et de la defense des places...The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1737. With: (2) VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de. De l'attaque et de la defense des places... tome second. ...The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1742.2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). Ad 1 with 36 folding engraved plates and ad 2 with 11 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de [and Guillaume de Lafon de Boisguérin, seigneur DESHOULIERES]. · 1669
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[1], [1 blank], [18], 216; [1], [1 blank], [14], "180" [=188], [34] pp.First edition of Vauban's treatises on siegecraft and military mining. Of all the 17th- and 18th-century books "on military technology, no works had greater influence or enjoyed greater prestige than those ...
Nouvelle fortification Françoise, où il est traité de la construction des places...Nuremberg, Jean George Lochner, 1731. 2 volumes: text (4to) and atlas (oblong folio). With an engraved frontispiece, engraved illustration on title-page and some woodcut initials and tailpieces. Atlas volume with 37 engraved plates, including some folding, and 1 letterpress table. Contemporary vellum, text volume with a red title-label on spine.
Nouvelle fortification Françoise, où il est traité de la construction des places...Nuremberg, Jean George Lochner, 1731. 2 volumes: text (4to) and atlas (oblong folio). With an engraved frontispiece, engraved illustration on title-page and some woodcut initials and tailpieces. Atlas volume with 37 engraved plates, including some folding, and 1 letterpress table. Contemporary vellum, text volume with a red title-label on spine.
ROZARD, Johann Claude de. · 1746
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[20], 148; [4], 156 pp.First and only edition of a work on modern French fortification by Lieutenant-Colonel Rozard. He states in his preface that, even though there are many books on fortification, most still present outdated methods, and he tries to present a modern method o...
De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of Verhandeling om de facen ... bestendiger ... te doen zyn ... Opgesteld ten nutte der krygsbouwkunde, en derzelver min of meer gevorderde bearbeiders.Amsterdam, printed for the author [by Izaak and Johannes Enschedé in Haarlem?], sold by Jan Punt junior, [1759]. Large 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). With 3 folding engraved plates with 14 numbered figures drawn by the author and executed by Jan Punt and 2 engravings in text. 19th-century half parchment.
De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of Verhandeling om de facen ... bestendiger ... te doen zyn ... Opgesteld ten nutte der krygsbouwkunde, en derzelver min of meer gevorderde bearbeiders.Amsterdam, printed for the author [by Izaak and Johannes Enschedé in Haarlem?], sold by Jan Punt junior, [1759]. Large 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). With 3 folding engraved plates with 14 numbered figures drawn by the author and executed by Jan Punt and 2 engravings in text. 19th-century half parchment.
REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. · 1728
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[16], 121, [1] pp.Rare first and only edition of a treatise on fortification by the Dutch engineer Cornelis Redelykheid (1728-1787). It centres on methods to improve the masonry and composition of strongholds against hostile artillery and mines, and on fortifying vaults agains...
Cahiers militaires, portatifs. Contenant une nouvelle idée sur le génie & plusieurs autres pièces interessantes & utiles pour le lecteur.Genève, J.A. Nouffer, 1778. 4to. With 13 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
Cahiers militaires, portatifs. Contenant une nouvelle idée sur le génie & plusieurs autres pièces interessantes & utiles pour le lecteur.Genève, J.A. Nouffer, 1778. 4to. With 13 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
[TISSOT, François Louis Pierre Auguste]. · 1785
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
“182” [=184] pp.First edition of a work on fortification by the French colonel François Tissot, sometimes called Tissot-Grenus, expressing his "new ideas" on the subject. He deals with the construction of different types of fortresses, but most of the work is devoted to comman...
Memoires pour l'attaque et la défense d'une place... Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée...Including:- VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de. Journal du siege de la ville d'Ath.- VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de. Le directeur général des fortifications, ou mémoires de monsieur de Vauban, concernant les fonctions des différens officiers employés dans les fortifications.- LOUIS, Grand Dauphin. Relation du siége de Philisbourg, en 1688.- [ANONYMOUS FRENCHMAN]. Relation de la défense de Landaw, en 1704.Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstee and Merkus; Paris, sold by Jombert, 1764. 8vo. With 9 folding engraved plates of cities and fortifications. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with yellow morocco title-label, red edges, paste paper endpapers.
Memoires pour l'attaque et la défense d'une place... Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée...Including:- VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de. Journal du siege de la ville d'Ath.- VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de. Le directeur général des fortifications, ou mémoires de monsieur de Vauban, concernant les fonctions des différens officiers employés dans les fortifications.- LOUIS, Grand Dauphin. Relation du siége de Philisbourg, en 1688.- [ANONYMOUS FRENCHMAN]. Relation de la défense de Landaw, en 1704.Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstee and Merkus; Paris, sold by Jombert, 1764. 8vo. With 9 folding engraved plates of cities and fortifications. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with yellow morocco title-label, red edges, paste paper endpapers.
GOULON, Charles. · 1730
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
XXIV, 344 pp.Very rare fourth(?) edition of a collection of treatises on fortification and siege craft, especially related to military mining, first published together in 1730. The main part consists of a treatise written by the Huguenot Charles Goulon (1645-1705). He had been...
Festung-Bawung, das ist, Kurtze und eygentliche Beschreibung, wie man Festungen bawen, unnd sich wider allen gewaltsamen Anlauff der Feinde zu Kriegszeiten auffhalten, sichern und verwahren möge: ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the widow of Levinius Hulsius, 1608. 4to. With a woodcut fortification plan on the title-page and about 30 woodcut illustrations in the text. Lacking the 2 woodcut plates and 3 smaller woodcut slips. 20th-century grey-brown half calf.
Festung-Bawung, das ist, Kurtze und eygentliche Beschreibung, wie man Festungen bawen, unnd sich wider allen gewaltsamen Anlauff der Feinde zu Kriegszeiten auffhalten, sichern und verwahren möge: ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the widow of Levinius Hulsius, 1608. 4to. With a woodcut fortification plan on the title-page and about 30 woodcut illustrations in the text. Lacking the 2 woodcut plates and 3 smaller woodcut slips. 20th-century grey-brown half calf.
STEVIN, Simon. · 1548
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[8], 132 pp.First German edition of the first Dutch fortification manual, with woodcut illustrations, by Simon Stevin (1548-1620), which inaugurated a new era in the history of siege warfare. It professionalized military engineering, introducing many original ideas and present...
Nouvelle fortification, tant pour un terrain bas et humide, ...The Hague, Henri van Bulderen, 1706. 8vo. With 14 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Nouvelle fortification, tant pour un terrain bas et humide, ...The Hague, Henri van Bulderen, 1706. 8vo. With 14 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
COEHOORN, Menno van. · 1685
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
[38], 261, [1] pp.Rare first edition in French 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, first published in 1685. While the Dutch had established themse...
Korte en klare instructie van regulare en irregulare fortificatie, met hare buyten-wercken. Te gebruycken defensive en offensive... By-gevoegt 50 lustige questien, met hare solutien.Including: MELDER, Gerard. Appendix aen de instructie vande fortificatie en bataillons...Amsterdam, Johannes van Waesberge, 1664. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece (dated 1658 from the first edition), folding letterpress table, 41 numbered woodcut illustrations in text (31) and on inserted leaves (10), numerous unnumbered woodcut illustrations in text, and 2 folding woodcut plans, signed A and B, in the Appendix. Contemporary vellum.
Korte en klare instructie van regulare en irregulare fortificatie, met hare buyten-wercken. Te gebruycken defensive en offensive... By-gevoegt 50 lustige questien, met hare solutien.Including: MELDER, Gerard. Appendix aen de instructie vande fortificatie en bataillons...Amsterdam, Johannes van Waesberge, 1664. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece (dated 1658 from the first edition), folding letterpress table, 41 numbered woodcut illustrations in text (31) and on inserted leaves (10), numerous unnumbered woodcut illustrations in text, and 2 folding woodcut plans, signed A and B, in the Appendix. Contemporary vellum.
MELDER, Gerard. · 1654
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[16], 208; 40 pp.Second edition of a popular and richly illustrated text book on fortification by Gerard Melder, with 50 assignments for the pupils to solve included at the end. Also included is the Appendix, containing the author's answer to his Amsterdam colleague Henrick Ru...
Architectura militaris hypothetico-eclectica, oder gründliche Anleitung zu der Kriegs-Baukunst...Nuremberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 1719. 4to. With an engraved device on title-page, an engraved headpiece on the first page of the dedication, engraved author's portrait, 42 engraved plates with 79 illustrations, 23 letterpress tables and with woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, lovely gold-brocade endpapers.
Architectura militaris hypothetico-eclectica, oder gründliche Anleitung zu der Kriegs-Baukunst...Nuremberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 1719. 4to. With an engraved device on title-page, an engraved headpiece on the first page of the dedication, engraved author's portrait, 42 engraved plates with 79 illustrations, 23 letterpress tables and with woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, lovely gold-brocade endpapers.
STURM, Leonhard Christoph. · 1669
€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)
[16], 144, 23, [1]Second edition of a work on military architecture by the German architect and theologian Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669-1719), "the foremost German architectural theorist of the early 18th century" (Neville). It is written in the form of a dialogue between an...
Der wahre Vauban, oder der von den Deutschen und Holländern verbesserte französische Ingenieur ...Nuremberg, George Peter Monath, 1761. With an engraved frontispiece and 31 folding engraved plates. With: (2) GOULON, Louis. Bericht von Belagerung und Vertheidigung einer Festung.Nuremberg, George Peter Monath, 1761. With 4 engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Modern plain paper boards.
Der wahre Vauban, oder der von den Deutschen und Holländern verbesserte französische Ingenieur ...Nuremberg, George Peter Monath, 1761. With an engraved frontispiece and 31 folding engraved plates. With: (2) GOULON, Louis. Bericht von Belagerung und Vertheidigung einer Festung.Nuremberg, George Peter Monath, 1761. With 4 engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Modern plain paper boards.
STURM, Leonhard Christoph. · 1633
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[6], 157, [11]; 56 pp.Ad 1: Third edition of a work on the famous French military engineer Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707) by the German philosopher and engineer Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669-1719). The book is divided into three parts, the first dealing with mathe...
Nieuwe vesting-bouw, ... vermeerdert door Johan Jacob Wertmuller. ... Tweeden druk.Dordrecht, Christoffel der Moey, 1745. 8vo. With an engraved half-title, 18 folding engraved plates and letterpress tables. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine.
Nieuwe vesting-bouw, ... vermeerdert door Johan Jacob Wertmuller. ... Tweeden druk.Dordrecht, Christoffel der Moey, 1745. 8vo. With an engraved half-title, 18 folding engraved plates and letterpress tables. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine.
PAGAN, Blaise François. · 1604
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
Engraved half-title + [16], 205, [3] pp. + plates.First and only Dutch edition (very rare second and last issue) of a great classic of French fortification by Blaise François Pagan (1604-1665), first published in French in 1645 and here based on the greatly revised and expande...
[Kitab Wasf al-Rusul wa al-Imama].[Near East, ca. 1820?] Small folio (ca. 21 x 30 cm). Arabic manuscript in a naskh script, written in black ink on paper, with headings, key words and short passages in red, ruled in red throughout (often in complex patterns to form tables and geometric shapes) and with a diagrammatic human body also in red, 2 leaves with circular diagrams, some ruled leaves blank (text never completed). Contemporary limp leather.
[Kitab Wasf al-Rusul wa al-Imama].[Near East, ca. 1820?] Small folio (ca. 21 x 30 cm). Arabic manuscript in a naskh script, written in black ink on paper, with headings, key words and short passages in red, ruled in red throughout (often in complex patterns to form tables and geometric shapes) and with a diagrammatic human body also in red, 2 leaves with circular diagrams, some ruled leaves blank (text never completed). Contemporary limp leather.
[WASF AL-RUSUL].
€12,000.00 ($13,226.18 | £10,011.19 | ¥2,112,051)
74 ll.A theological manuscript whose title can be translated as "The book of attributes of the Prophet and the leader". While the ruling on most leaves is horizontal and vertical, many include diagonal rules, arcs and circles, sometimes forming diagrams (there is also a diagra...
Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. ... Med en karta.Helsinki, (S. Baranovskij for) J. Simelius, 1853. 8vo. With lithographed map at the end; printed music for a Bedouin melody in the text. Green half calf, contemporary marbled boards, title in gold on rebacked spine.
Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. ... Med en karta.Helsinki, (S. Baranovskij for) J. Simelius, 1853. 8vo. With lithographed map at the end; printed music for a Bedouin melody in the text. Green half calf, contemporary marbled boards, title in gold on rebacked spine.
WALLIN, Georg August (Yrjö Aukusti). · 1845
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
VII, [1], 126, [2 blank] pp.First edition, published posthumously in the original Swedish, of an account of Wallin’s principal journey through Arabia, unknown to most bibliographers: "It was not until two years after his death", writes Henze, "that the report of his first (and...
[Photograph album with views of Egypt and Switzerland].Egypt and Switzerland, [1880s-1890s]. 4to (29.5 x 23.5 cm). 50 photographs of Egypt (albumen prints and cyanotypes) and approximately 40 albumen prints of Switzerland. Contemporary black half morocco.
[Photograph album with views of Egypt and Switzerland].Egypt and Switzerland, [1880s-1890s]. 4to (29.5 x 23.5 cm). 50 photographs of Egypt (albumen prints and cyanotypes) and approximately 40 albumen prints of Switzerland. Contemporary black half morocco.
SÉBAH, Pascal, and others. · 1823
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
Impressively presented series of original photographs taken at various important sites and cities in Egypt, including Giza, Thebes, Karnak, Luxor, Abydos, Esna and others. They show archaeological sites like the temple of Seti I at Abydos, the precinct of Ahmen-Rah near Luxor,...
The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie.London, Adam Islip, 1634. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (23.5 x 32 cm). Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt.
The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie.London, Adam Islip, 1634. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (23.5 x 32 cm). Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt.
PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the Elder) · 1601
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
(58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp.Pliny's renowned Natural History in its second publication in English (repeating, with corrections, the 1601 first publication), translated by Philemon Holland, the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age. The "Naturalis Historia" is o...
La castrametation, ...Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618. With: (2) STEVIN, Simon. Nouvelle maniere de fortification par escluses. ...Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With more than 50 woodcut illustrations in the text (many full-page or nearly full-page). Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
La castrametation, ...Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618. With: (2) STEVIN, Simon. Nouvelle maniere de fortification par escluses. ...Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With more than 50 woodcut illustrations in the text (many full-page or nearly full-page). Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
STEVIN, Simon. · 1609
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
[4 of 8], 54, [2 blank]; [4], 61, [1 blank] pp.First French editions of two complementary works in matching format and layout by Simon Stevin, on the layout of army camps and on hydraulic engineering for fortifications (in particular the use of pivoted sluices for deepening wa...
Architectura militaris; oder, Anlaitung wie auff unterschidliche Arten starcke Vestungen zubawen, denen nach itziger Kriegs-Practic gewöhnlichen Offensionen entgegen zustellen; ...München, Johann Jäcklin, 1664. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (30 x 20.5 cm). With an engraved title-page by Melchior Küsell and 168 figures (I-CLXIV & A-D) on 27 double-page plates (A-Bb including W, & "zwischen O und P"), engraved by Christoph Stenglin. 18th-century blue paper over boards.
Architectura militaris; oder, Anlaitung wie auff unterschidliche Arten starcke Vestungen zubawen, denen nach itziger Kriegs-Practic gewöhnlichen Offensionen entgegen zustellen; ...München, Johann Jäcklin, 1664. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (30 x 20.5 cm). With an engraved title-page by Melchior Küsell and 168 figures (I-CLXIV & A-D) on 27 double-page plates (A-Bb including W, & "zwischen O und P"), engraved by Christoph Stenglin. 18th-century blue paper over boards.
HEIDEMANN, Christoph. · 1684
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
Engraved title-page + [10], 98; 62; 26, [2] pp.First edition of an important German work on fortification, with 27 folding plates. It forms a complete handbook in three parts, the first covering fortifications of both regular and irregular form, the second covering siege techn...
Peribologia oder Bericht ... von Vestungs Gebewen, vieler Örter vermehrett wie auch mit gebürenden Gründt und Auffrissen versehen ...Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Dilich (colophon: printed by Anton Humm), 1640. 2 parts plus plates in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved general title page and 2 engraved part-titles, each part with 2 additional engraved divisional titles dividing it into two "books", 234 unnumbered engraved plates by the author's son, Johann Wilhelm Dilich (1 large folding, plate size 46.5 x 60.5 cm; and as bound in the present copy 198 double-page and 35 single-page). Vellum (ca. 1695/1700?).
Peribologia oder Bericht ... von Vestungs Gebewen, vieler Örter vermehrett wie auch mit gebürenden Gründt und Auffrissen versehen ...Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Dilich (colophon: printed by Anton Humm), 1640. 2 parts plus plates in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved general title page and 2 engraved part-titles, each part with 2 additional engraved divisional titles dividing it into two "books", 234 unnumbered engraved plates by the author's son, Johann Wilhelm Dilich (1 large folding, plate size 46.5 x 60.5 cm; and as bound in the present copy 198 double-page and 35 single-page). Vellum (ca. 1695/1700?).
DILICH, Wilhelm. · 1571
€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)
163, [8], [1 blank] pp. (including 7 engraved titles) plus plates and 3 engraved titles.Rare complete copy of the first edition, in the original German, of the greatest and especially the best-illustrated work on fortification of its day and the most important influence on Vau...
Oeuvres posthumes ... Tome premier[-second] [& troisième].Comprising:(1) Mémorial pour la fortification permanente et passagère. ...(2) Mémorial pour l'attaque des places. ...(3) Mémorial pour la défense des places, faisant suite au mémorial pour l'attaque, ...Paris, Charles Barrois (vol. II: Denis-Simon Magimel) (back of title-page vol. I & colophon vol. III: printed by H. Perronneau; back of title-page vol. II: printed by Demonville), 1809, 1815, 1806. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 55 engraved folding plates, 3 folding tables and additional tables in the text. Contemporary, uniform half tree calf, gold-tooled spines.
Oeuvres posthumes ... Tome premier[-second] [& troisième].Comprising:(1) Mémorial pour la fortification permanente et passagère. ...(2) Mémorial pour l'attaque des places. ...(3) Mémorial pour la défense des places, faisant suite au mémorial pour l'attaque, ...Paris, Charles Barrois (vol. II: Denis-Simon Magimel) (back of title-page vol. I & colophon vol. III: printed by H. Perronneau; back of title-page vol. II: printed by Demonville), 1809, 1815, 1806. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 55 engraved folding plates, 3 folding tables and additional tables in the text. Contemporary, uniform half tree calf, gold-tooled spines.
CORMONTAINGNE, Louis de. · 1696
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
XVI, 390; [4], XIV, 316; XXII, 371, [1] pp. plus folding tables and plates.The complete posthumous works of Louis de Cormontaingne (ca. 1696-1752), the leading French fortifications engineer of his day and from 1748 Maréchal de Camp in the French army. The three volumes form a...
L'architecture militaire ou la fortification nouvelle, ...Leiden, Abraham and Bonaventura Elzevier, 1635. Folio. With an integral engraved title-page, divisional titles for the second and third “livre”, 35 double-page engraved illustration plates containing 185 numbered figures, 8 double-page letterpress tables and “Table du profil”, woodcut headpieces and decorated initials. Set in roman and italic types with incidental textura and fraktur. With 2 figures in the plates coloured by an early hand. Mottled, tanned sheepskin (ca. 1730?), gold-tooled spine with morocco label, gold-tooled board edges, curl-marbled endpapers, red edges.
L'architecture militaire ou la fortification nouvelle, ...Leiden, Abraham and Bonaventura Elzevier, 1635. Folio. With an integral engraved title-page, divisional titles for the second and third “livre”, 35 double-page engraved illustration plates containing 185 numbered figures, 8 double-page letterpress tables and “Table du profil”, woodcut headpieces and decorated initials. Set in roman and italic types with incidental textura and fraktur. With 2 figures in the plates coloured by an early hand. Mottled, tanned sheepskin (ca. 1730?), gold-tooled spine with morocco label, gold-tooled board edges, curl-marbled endpapers, red edges.
FREITAG, Adam. · 1630
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[8], 179, [1 blank] pp.First French edition of the best, most detailed, best illustrated and most influential handbook of fortification from the Dutch golden age and an ambitious piece of book production from the golden age of the Elzeviers' printing office. Besides numerous f...