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From the library of Karl Kaspar IV, Count of Leyen

GOULON, [Charles].
Memoires pour l'Attaque et pour la Défense d'une Place.

With woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations of fortifications on 4 double-page folding engraved plates.

With woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations of fortifications on 4 double-page folding engraved plates.

With woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations of fortifications on 4 double-page folding engraved plates.

With woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations of fortifications on 4 double-page folding engraved plates.

With woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations of fortifications on 4 double-page folding engraved plates.



The Hague, Henry van Bulderen, 1706. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum, with ms. title-label on spine, and gilt coat-of-arms of Karl Kaspar IV, Count of Leyen on front cover, blue mottled edges. With woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations of fortifications on 4 double-page folding engraved plates. 194, (14) pp.

First edition, published simultaneously at Wesel and The Hague, of a celebrated manual on fortification by a military engineer and general in the Imperial Austrian Army. Charles Goulon improved on the theories on fortifications of Vauban, treated attack and defence more in relation to each other, and looked at new problems more as a military man than as a mere engineer interested in building and material improvements only. His work was very well received and much republished and enlarged upon. New editions appeared at Amsterdam and The Hague in 1711, at The Hague and Paris in 1730, at The Hague and Frankfurty in 1743, at Amsterdam in 1750, at Paris in 1754 and 1764, and at Amsterdam and Leipzig in 1764. A German translation was published at Breslau in 1754 and at Nuremberg in 1761.
Goulon was especially praised by his fellow military man, the Prince Von Ligne, who possessed an edition of Goulon's manual of 1711 and devoted an extensive laudatory note to the book in the catalogue he made of his military library: "C'est le fruit de son expérience... Je crois que celui-là est fort bon, car je l'entends à merveille, et souvent les autres Auteurs veulent nous en imposer par des chiffres, de l'Algèbre et des mots techniques". In spite of the many editions the book is quite rare today.

Charming copy from the Library of the German Von Leyen family: with the coat-of-arms of Karl Kaspar IV, Lord of Leyen and made Count of the Empire and Count of Leyen and Hohengeroldseck by the Emperor Karl VI in 1711 and 1716 (died in 1739).
Jähns II, pp. 1741-1743; cf. Mêlanges militaires, littéraires et sentimentaires, Vienna,  1805, Vol. XXVIII, p. 229.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Armorial Bindings  Dutch  Fortification  Militaria 

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