'TRAITTÉ de la Fortification', by F- E- Schenck, with dedicatory letter, dat. La Haye, 10 Dec. 1709, to Frederick Louis, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, [afterwards Prince of Wales], then two years of age. Two volumes, the second volume containing the coloured plans. Paper; ff. 65, 32. Folio. 13 7/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. A. D. 1709. Sprinkled calf binding. Royal arms added later.
'STUDIO delle fortificationi et artiglierie dell'Alfiere Antonio Matteo Lancisi, alla Santità di nostro Signore Papa Clemente Xl ' [1700-1721], in a series of sixteen coloured plans (the last two representing artillery). F. 8 is the ' Pianta della fortezza di Ferrara '. The Pope's arms appear on...
'TRAITÉ DES SIÉGES sur l'attaque et la deffense des places fortes', &c. : another copy of Vauban's work (the title giving the date of his death wrongly as 1727), cf. King'S 250, 251. The text of the Défense section (beg. f. 104) is (as in De Hondt's edition) almost entirely spurious, being t...
'NOUVELLE THÉORIE sur la Science des Mines', by Bernard Forest de Bélidor; followed (f. 28) by 'Epreuves de mines et contremines faites par Mr. de Belidor proche le chateau de Bisy les 18 et 19 Juin 1753', and (f. 30) by copy of a letter to M. de Bélidor from Frederic the Great, King of Prussia,...
TREATISE on fortification, described (vol. i, f. 1) as 'Mémoire où l'on examine de quelle manière il convient de disposer les ouvrages d'un Front de Fortification'. Two volumes, vol. ii. containing the forty-one coloured plans. The name of the author, [Louis] de Cormontaigne (d. 1752), appears at the head of two anonymous supplements (vol. i, ff. 110, 143), each of which is described as 'Continuation du premier mémoire de Cormontaigne', and in the title of vol. ii, 'Plans et tracez apartenan...