BOURDIN Ernest Le Dessein ou la perspective militaire.

VENDU

Paris, Guilaume Benard, 1655

8vo (167 x 105) 239 pp. (pp. 14-15 blancs). Contemporary flexible vellum, spine with manuscript title

Catégories:
1800,00 

1 in stock

Sommervogel, II, 29.

First, posthumous, edition, of this essay on fortifiction. 

Richly illustrated with more than 100 full page woodcuts, it describes a large variety of projections (architecture, cosmography, military projections, elevations including the pyramids, roofs, cylinders, columns, and many others). Slightly toned.

Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (blind stamp on the title).

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