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VAUBAN: De l'Attaque et de la Défense des places.
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VAUBAN: De l'Attaque et de la Défense des places.
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
VAUBAN: De l'Attaque et de la Défense des places. A la Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1737. Small square folio (28 x 21 cm), (8) ff, 216 pp, 36 plates. Contemporary fawn calf, finely marbled, ribbed spine, red morocco title-piece, decorative fleurons and double gilt fillet, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges (tail cap missing and head cap worn, stain on lower cover, rubbed edges and corners, slightly oxidised leaves). Posthumous first edition of the most famous treatise on poliorcetics of the Ancien Régime. With a title page printed in black and red, a preface, the table of chapters and two parts of text, the first devoted to the attack and the second to the defence of places. Illustrated with 36 copper-engraved folding plates in black, including numerous captioned plans of attack. Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), military engineer and marshal of France, was commissioner-general of fortifications (1678) and then lieutenant-general of the kingdom (1688), a title to which was attached the dignity of marquis. He designed or redesigned over a hundred strongholds, as well as various ports, canals and engineering structures, including the Maintenon aqueduct, and successfully led numerous sieges. His designs left a lasting mark on the engineering and history of strongholds beyond their borders. Provenances: handwritten ex libris on the title page with a signature to the title and pp.1. Graesse, VI, 266.
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