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ERRARD (Jean). La Fortification réduicte en art, et démonstrée par J. Errard, de Bar-le-Duc, ingénieur du Trèschrestien Roy de France & de Navarre. First printed in Paris. Now brought to light by the widow, & two sons of Théodore de Bry. Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter, 1604. In-folio, [4] ff, [75] pp. miscalculated 77 (jump in cipher from 51 to 54), with figures in the text and 38 double-page plates (including 18 and 19 bound in reverse) engraved on copper; copy in which the dedication (f. ***3) has been bound before the preface (f. ***2). Demi-basane, spine ribbed and decorated, red title page (19th century binding). Spine rubbed, first few pages heavily pitted, several plates wet. The first edition appeared in 1600 and is very rare (the 1594 edition is a bibliographic phantom). Then, in the same year 1604, two competing editions were published, one from Paris, a German counterfeit (this copy), strongly criticized by the author's heirs when they procured the new posthumous edition of 1619-1622. The engineer Jean Errard (1554-1610) was the first to apply the principle of bastioned fortification in France, and to explain its principles. His work earned him the title of "father of French fortification", and his principle of advanced works inspired Vauban. (Brunet II, 1050.)

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ERRARD (Jean). La Fortification réduicte en art, et démonstrée par J. Errard, de Bar-le-Duc, ingénieur du Trèschrestien Roy de France & de Navarre. First printed in Paris. Now brought to light by the widow, & two sons of Théodore de Bry. Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter, 1604. In-folio, [4] ff, [75] pp. miscalculated 77 (jump in cipher from 51 to 54), with figures in the text and 38 double-page plates (including 18 and 19 bound in reverse) engraved on copper; copy in which the dedication (f. ***3) has been bound before the preface (f. ***2). Demi-basane, spine ribbed and decorated, red title page (19th century binding). Spine rubbed, first few pages heavily pitted, several plates wet. The first edition appeared in 1600 and is very rare (the 1594 edition is a bibliographic phantom). Then, in the same year 1604, two competing editions were published, one from Paris, a German counterfeit (this copy), strongly criticized by the author's heirs when they procured the new posthumous edition of 1619-1622. The engineer Jean Errard (1554-1610) was the first to apply the principle of bastioned fortification in France, and to explain its principles. His work earned him the title of "father of French fortification", and his principle of advanced works inspired Vauban. (Brunet II, 1050.)

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