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Classic on fortification printed by the Elzeviers

GOLDMAN, Nicolas.
La nouvelle fortification.

With allegorical frontispiece with the title in a wreath in the midle and a fortified town at the bottom, engraved by Adr. Matham, 52 half page engravings of mathematical and geometrical figures as well as of (details of) fortifications in the text, 22 of which are repeated one to four times, making the total number 94, interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces and numerous printed tables in the text.

With allegorical frontispiece with the title in a wreath in the midle and a fortified town at the bottom, engraved by Adr. Matham, 52 half page engravings of mathematical and geometrical figures as well as of (details of) fortifications in the text, 22 of which are repeated one to four times, making the total number 94, interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces and numerous printed tables in the text.

With allegorical frontispiece with the title in a wreath in the midle and a fortified town at the bottom, engraved by Adr. Matham, 52 half page engravings of mathematical and geometrical figures as well as of (details of) fortifications in the text, 22 of which are repeated one to four times, making the total number 94, interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces and numerous printed tables in the text.

With allegorical frontispiece with the title in a wreath in the midle and a fortified town at the bottom, engraved by Adr. Matham, 52 half page engravings of mathematical and geometrical figures as well as of (details of) fortifications in the text, 22 of which are repeated one to four times, making the total number 94, interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces and numerous printed tables in the text.



Leiden, (Bonaventura & Abraham) Elzevier, 1645. Folio. Full contemporary brown morocco, with gilt ornamental roll along the edges, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. With allegorical frontispiece with the title in a wreath in the midle and a fortified town at the bottom, engraved by Adr. Matham, 52 half page engravings of mathematical and geometrical figures as well as of (details of) fortifications in the text, 22 of which are repeated one to four times, making the total number 94, interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces and numerous printed tables in the text. (16), 224 pp.

Original edition of the French translation of the original Latin text of this important scholarly work on the art of fortification, which was very appropriately dedicated by the author to the Dutch Stadholder Frederick Henry, the prince of Orange, who was well-known for his virtuosity and success in besieging and conquering fortified cities. The original Latin text was published by the same famous printers, Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevier, in 1642 in 2 vols., also at Leyden (Willems 553). The treatise is written by Nicolas Goldman (1611-1665) who was born in Breslau and who came to Leiden in 1628 or 1629 to study law at the University. The rest of his life he would spend in Leiden as a private teacher in mathematics and geometrie. In that capacity he has tried to provide the architects with sound and scientifically based measurements of the, mainly classical, components of their designs and buildings. His most important work in this field was the Vollständige Anweisung zur Civil Bau-Kunst, only published after his death in Leipzig, in 1696 by another famous architect Leonard Christian Sturm who was certainly also influenced by Nicolas Goldman.
Good copy.- (Engraved title damaged and strengthened with an extra leaf pasted to the back; some minor repairs in the margins; some occasional spotting and soiling; some rather bad scratches on both sides).
Willems 587; NDB 6, p. 605-6.

Related Subjects: Architecture  Fortification 

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