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50 - MANNESSON MALLET (Allain). *Les travaux de Mars ou l'Art de …
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MANNESSON MALLET (Allain). *Les travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la guerre* (...). Amsterdam, Henri Desbordes, 1696. 3 volumes in-8, contemporary sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine. Title-frontispiece, (13) folios, 372 pages, (3) folios; title-frontispiece, (7) ff., 342 pp., (2) ff.; title-frontispiece, (7) ff., 387 pp., (4) ff. A new edition (first published in 1671), revised and corrected, of one of the great 17th-century French treatises on military art and fortification, written by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706), an engineer and sergeant-major of artillery in Portugal, later Master of Mathematics to the pages of the King’s Petite Écurie. 3 frontispiece titles and 414 full-page plates (I: 155, II: 122, III: 137) featuring maps and panoramic views of European cities such as Douai, Arras, La Rochelle, Brest, Athens, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Breda, Madrid, Barcelona, Geneva, Naples, Paris, Speyer, Venice, Crete, etc., as well as fortifications, military equipment and uniforms, cannons and artillery, combat formations, etc. 23 plates relate to the Turkish Militia. The first part of the work deals with the construction and fortification of regular and irregular strongholds; the second examines and compares the systems of the leading theorists and engineers of fortification, notably Errard, Marolois, Freitag, Stevin, Dögen, Marchi, Sardi, De Ville and the Count of Pagan; the third is devoted to the infantry, cavalry, artillery, gunpowder and fireworks, sieges, the attack and defence of fortifications, as well as the organisation and methods of warfare of the Turkish militia.
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