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89 - VAUBAN (Sébastien le Prestre, Marshal of). ON THE ATTACK AND DEFENSE OF FORTIFICATIONS. The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1737. Two parts in one quarto volume in marbled fawn calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label, edges speckled in red (contemporary binding); (10) ff., 216 pp., 35/36 plates numbered 1–33 (there are duplicate plates 14, 18, and 19): The first plate, no. 19, is MISSING. Restored binding; the two endpapers are missing and have been replaced with a sheet of vellum; a cut-out section on the margin of the title page has been restored with ink stamps. FIRST EDITION of this famous treatise. 35/36 fold-out PLATES. A second volume, consisting of a practical treatise on mining and warfare in general, was published in 1742. From the LIBRARY of Count FOLCHI, with a sepia-engraved bookplate. AS IS.
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VAUBAN (Sébastien le Prestre, Marshal of). ON THE ATTACK AND DEFENSE OF FORTIFICATIONS. The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1737. Two parts in one quarto volume in marbled fawn calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label, edges speckled in red (contemporary binding); (10) ff., 216 pp., 35/36 plates numbered 1–33 (there are duplicate plates 14, 18, and 19): The first plate, no. 19, is MISSING. Restored binding; the two endpapers are missing and have been replaced with a sheet of vellum; a cut-out section on the margin of the title page has been restored with ink stamps. FIRST EDITION of this famous treatise. 35/36 fold-out PLATES. A second volume, consisting of a practical treatise on mining and warfare in general, was published in 1742. From the LIBRARY of Count FOLCHI, with a sepia-engraved bookplate. AS IS.
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