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VAUBAN (Sébastien LE PRESTRE, marshal of). Of the Attack and the Defense of the Places. In The Hague, At Pierre De Hondt, 1737. 2 volumes in-4°, calfskin, spine decorated, title in red morocco (binding of the time). This volume "constitutes the FIRST EDITION of the treatise De l'Attaque des places, increased by the editor of a second part entitled: " Contenant un traité pratique des mines ", attributed to Vauban as a fragment of the Traité de la défense des places, but which reproduces, in reality, the essence of the " Discours sur la défense des places, présenté à Louis XIV en 1675 ", by Guillaume de La Fon de Boisguerin, seigneur Deshoulières. " Eleven folded engraved plates (num. I to XI) and 35 folded engraved plates (num. I to XXXIII).
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VAUBAN (Sébastien LE PRESTRE, marshal of). Of the Attack and the Defense of the Places. In The Hague, At Pierre De Hondt, 1737. 2 volumes in-4°, calfskin, spine decorated, title in red morocco (binding of the time). This volume "constitutes the FIRST EDITION of the treatise De l'Attaque des places, increased by the editor of a second part entitled: " Contenant un traité pratique des mines ", attributed to Vauban as a fragment of the Traité de la défense des places, but which reproduces, in reality, the essence of the " Discours sur la défense des places, présenté à Louis XIV en 1675 ", by Guillaume de La Fon de Boisguerin, seigneur Deshoulières. " Eleven folded engraved plates (num. I to XI) and 35 folded engraved plates (num. I to XXXIII).
