52 - GARSAULT. VAUBAN.

GARSAULT. VAUBAN. [MILITARIA - CAVALRY]. LOT of 2 titles in their period bindings. -VAUBAN. On the Attack and Defense of Fortifications. The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1737. Small square folio, (8) leaves, 216 pp., title in red and black, 36 plates. Contemporary marbled fawn calfskin, ribbed spine, red morocco title label, panels decorated with fleurons and double gilt fillets, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges (caps worn down, stain on the lower cover, edges and corners rubbed, pages very slightly oxidized). Posthumous first edition of the most famous treatise on siege warfare of the Ancien Régime. Illustrated with 36 fold-out copperplate engravings in black, including numerous captioned attack plans. Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707), a military engineer and Marshal of France, served as Commissioner General of Fortifications and later as Lieutenant General of the Kingdom. He designed or redesigned more than a hundred strongholds in France, as well as various ports, canals, and engineering structures—including the Maintenon Aqueduct—and successfully led numerous sieges. His designs had a lasting impact—extending beyond France’s borders—on the engineering and history of fortifications. Provenance: handwritten bookplates on the title page with a signature on the title page and p. 1. Graesse, VI, 266. -GARSAULT. The New Perfect Marshal, or The General and Universal Knowledge of the Horse, Divided into Seven Treatises ... Lyon: Amable Leroy, 1811. In-4 (27 x 20 cm), (2) ff., portrait as frontispiece, XXIII-[1]-515 pp., 47 plates out of 49 (plates 2 and 27 missing). Contemporary fawn half-basane with period corners, plain spine, green title label, spine and covers decorated (minor wear and a few pinholes). A work comprising 7 treatises on the horse, the stud farm, the rider and the harness, equine diseases, veterinary surgery, the farrier, and the apothecary. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved on copper by Tardieu after a drawing by Descours in 1745, and 47 copperplate engravings, including 20 botanical plates for the final treatise.