Les Fortifications Royales, ou Architecture militaire, ancienne et moderne, par une nouvelle pratique; Avec celles de tous les plus excellens Autheurs qui ont escrit de cette Matiere depuis Henry le Grand, jusqu'a present; & un Traité de l&

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Book description: Paris, Loyson, 1666. Two books in one volume. FULL TITLE-LIST AS FOLLOWS: Les Fortifications Royales, ou Architecture militaire, ancienne et moderne, par une nouvelle pratique; Avec celles de tous les plus excellens Autheurs qui ont escrit de cette Matiere depuis Henry le Grand, jusqu'a present; & un Traité de l'Artillerie & usage du Canon. [BOUND WITH:] Ensemble, La Geometrie universelle, avec un Compendion de Perspective; la Construction des Cadrans Solaires, l'usage du Cadran Analitique, & autres diverses choses contenuës en cét Oeuvre. - - two works in one volume. Small octavo. Book I: Pp. (vi), 128 [i.e. 126, erratically skipping numbers 121-122], (2). Plus a total of 26 double-page etched plates, some of which fold-out, of which 18 are of fortification construction and 7 are of canons and their carriage, numbered separately respectively. Plus one unnumbered fold-out plate. Tables. Book II: Pp. (iv), 150 [i.e. 154, erratically commencing with number 109 onwards after p. 112]. Plus a total of 25 etched plates, of which 17 double-page plates are on geometry; 4 (3 double-page & one folded) plates are on perspective; and another 4 (3 double-page & one folded) are again on geometrical issues; some plates are with tears, occasionally with considerable loss; two double-page plates lack left leaf. Etched frontispiece. Title-page with decorative device to each book. Handsome head-pieces and decorative initials to each book's dedication to the King. Hardcover, later quarter black calf and boards, spine with raised bands, direct gilt lettering to second compartment; cracks to leather, chipped spine ends, worn corners. With elaborate calligraphic signature on front free endpaper, dated 1784. - - Rare. Not a single copy in OCLC. .

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