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Treatise on architecture "Architecture militaire, ou l'art de fortifier" and "Traité de l'Art de la Guerre première partie" 1761, Jean Neaulme and Adrien Moetjens, The Hague. Full brown leather cover, 5-ribbed spine, titled and decorated with small irons.

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Treatise on architecture "Architecture militaire, ou l'art de fortifier" and "Traité de l'Art de la Guerre première partie" 1761, Jean Neaulme and Adrien Moetjens, The Hague. Full brown leather cover, 5-ribbed spine, titled and decorated with small irons.

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Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

[SCIENCES & ARCHITECTURE] Bernard FOREST DE BELIDOR - La science des ingénieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile (The science of engineers in fortification and civil architecture) Published in Paris in 1739 by Charles-Antoine Jombert Period binding in full calf with epidermal marks and rubbing, first jaw partly split and small leather tears, notably at the head, the binding remains quite solid. The interior is fresh, despite a few brown spots, and is complete with 53 beautiful plates, including 50 fold-outs and a large full-page frontispiece engraved by Rigault. A very fine work with finely engraved plates. "This book can be considered as a complete treatise on military architecture and the related part of civil architecture (Grandjean de Fouchy)". Brunet, I, 740 / Quérard, I, 258 (16) 80pp, 64pp, 96pp, 104pp, 80pp, 80pp (8)

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[MILITARY ARCHITECTURE] Georges FOURNIER - Traité des fortifications ou architecture militaire tiré des places les plus estimées de ce temps, pour leurs fortifications By Jean Henault, Paris, 1668 - A fine copy of the fourth edition of this famous treatise by Jesuit priest, hydrographer, geographer and mathematician Georges Fournier, first published in 1648 at the end of the Thirty Years' War. Period binding in full calf, 4-nerved spine with ornate boxes, small tear at head with very slight lack, lack at tail, binding nevertheless quite solid. Very fresh inside. The work is divided into two parts: the first with plans, sections and elevations of a number of highly esteemed places considered to be very well fortified. The second provides easy practices for making similar ones. Complete with engraved title-frontispiece and 110 plates bound in-fine. In-16, 186pp (6p).

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

[MILITARY ARCHITECTURE] Louis de CORMONTAIGNE - Architecture militaire ou l'art de fortifier By Jean Neaulme and Moetjens in The Hague, 1742 - A very fine copy of the first edition of this rare architectural work, which was later largely plagiarized by Bardet de Villeneuve. This work teaches in a short and easy way the construction of all kinds of regular and irregular fortifications; two new systems for building, with much less expense, places with a longer and more advantageous defense than those fortified according to the system of M. le Maréchal de Vauban; and their attacks to know their defense. La construction des chemins-couverts sur toutes sortes de terrains ; avec les devis nécessaires pour celle des fortifications ; et l'art de dessiner et laver les plans. Complete with 40 intaglio folding plates, plus a treatise on the art of war. Bound in full calf leather, with five-ribbed spine and ornate boxes, red morocco title-piece. The binding has been skilfully restored to the nerves, some of the boxes and the corners. Barbier N°1272 (2nd edition) Provenance: Leiber's bookshop, rue de Seine, 13, Paris, with label on front cover.

Estim. 100 - 200 EUR

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