50 - MANNESSON MALLET (Allain). *Les travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la guerre* (...). Amsterdam: Henri Desbordes, 1696. 3 volumes, in-8, contemporary sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine. Title page and frontispiece, (13) leaves, 372 pages, (3) leaves; title page and frontispiece, (7) ff., 342 pp., (2) ff.; title page and frontispiece, (7) ff., 387 pp., (4) ff.

MANNESSON MALLET (Allain). *Les travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la guerre* (...). Amsterdam: Henri Desbordes, 1696. 3 volumes, in-8, contemporary sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine. Title page and frontispiece, (13) leaves, 372 pages, (3) leaves; title page and frontispiece, (7) ff., 342 pp., (2) ff.; title page and frontispiece, (7) ff., 387 pp., (4) ff. New edition (first edition 1671), revised and corrected, of one of the great 17th-century French treatises on military art and fortification, composed by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706), an engineer and sergeant major of artillery in Portugal, later a mathematics tutor to the pages of the King’s Petite Écurie. 3 frontispiece titles and 414 full-page plates (I: 155, II: 122, III: 137) featuring maps and panoramic views of European cities such as Douai, Arras, La Rochelle, Brest, Athens, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Breda, Madrid, Barcelona, Geneva, Naples, Paris, Speyer, Venice, Crete, etc., as well as fortifications, military equipment and uniforms, cannons and artillery, combat formations, etc. Twenty-three plates concern the Turkish Militia. The first part of the work deals with the construction and fortification of regular and irregular strongholds; the second examines and compares the systems of the leading theorists and engineers of fortification, notably Errard, Marolois, Freitag, Stevin, Dögen, Marchi, Sardi, De Ville, and the Count of Pagan; the third is devoted to the infantry, cavalry, artillery, gunpowder and fireworks, sieges, the attack and defense of fortifications, as well as the organization and methods of warfare of the Turkish militia.