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Extremely rare work on fortification View picture(s) 1 BEKKER VAN HERVORD, Pieter. Nieuwe manier van vestingbou, hoe men alle regulare en irregulare vestingen met hare buytenwerken na haer behoorlijke proportie, sonder eenige rekeninge, door den gemeenen cirkel op een nieuwe en gansch lichte manier tekenen, afsteken en opbouwen sal. Van nieuws van den autheur selve, met het offensive en defensive vermeerdert, en door de tabulae sinuum uytgerekent, en met nodige demonstratien en figuren allen liefhebbers deser kunst verrijkt. Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1673. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page, 7 engraved plates (5 folding), 3 engraved illustrations in the text and 3 folding tables. [16], 146 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of the first edition of this important comprehensive manual of civil and military engineering View picture(s) 2 BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de. La science des ingenieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile. Dedié au Roy. Paris, Claude Jombert, 1729. 6 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold, marbled emdpapers, red painted edges. With engraved frontispiece by Rigault, and 53 engraved numbered plates, 51 of which are double-page and 2 full-page; plates 16-19 showing military gates are after the drawings by Comte Thomassin. One engraved head-piece by Filloeul and woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (16), 80, 64, 96, 104, 80, 80, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  Engineering  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two beautiful suites of landscapes, fortifications, etc.: drawing lessons by Callot, Silvestre and others View picture(s) 3 CALLOT, Jacques. Livre des paysages de Callot. Propre à la noblesse et aux ingenieurs pour apprendre a dessiner à la plume avec liberté, et en peu de temps. Paris, Nicolas Langlois, (ca. 1660-1680). Oblong 8vo. 177 x 242 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments. Engraved title  in cartouche, engraved by J. Mariette (nr. 1), 2 engraved plates 'Advertissement' (nrs. 2-3), and 19 numbered engraved plates (nrs. 4-22; ca. 85 x 165 mm) of which one (rather clumsily) hand coloured, with landscapes and scenery, engraved by Israel Henriet after the designs by Jacques Callot. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Drawings  Engravings  Etchings  Fortification  French  Italy  Landscape  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on fortification View picture(s) 4 CLAIRAC, Louis André, Le Chevalier de. L'ingenieur de campagne, ou traité de la fortification passagere. Seconde édition. Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1757. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red title label lettered in gold, with the arms of the 'Hotel de l'école royale militaires' stamped in gilt on both covers, marbled endpapers, e.g. With 36 numbered folding engraved plates with fortifications, and engraved arms of the dedicatee, some signed by C.C. Riolet. (3), IV-XXIV, 248 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Fortification  France  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Europe fortified: the fortifications of Vauban, Maroloys and Stevin beautifully mapped: in the Amsterdam edition of ca. 1702 with the original titles, together with the Atlas of the coasts of France View picture(s) 5 FER, Nicolas de. Les forces de l' Europe [...], ou description des principales villes; avec leurs fortifications. Dessignées par les meilleurs ingenieurs, particulierement celles qui sont sous la domination de la France, dont les plans ont esté levez par Monsieur de Vauban, avec la description de tous les instrumens servans à la fortification à l' attaque & deffense des places, ensemble ceux qui servent pour l' artillerie, des magazins; la maniere de dresser un camp devant une ville assiegée. [= Amsterdam, Petrus Mortier, ca. 1702]. 10 parts in 1 volume. With the titles of the edition: Paris, chez l'auteur (= Nicolas de Fer), 1695-1696 printed in red and black to all 10 parts; engraved titles to the first 5 parts, 4 of which with the title "Introduction à la fortification" and one, for part 4, with the title "Suitte des forces de l'europe" (the engraved title to part 2 and 5 is the same and is dated 1696; with in total 234 full-page beautifully engraved plates of maps and views of 366 fortified cities: part 1 containing 19 engravings with 2 extra plates; part 2: 24 plates; part 3: 23; part 4: 20; part 5: 23; part 6: 24; part 7: 25; part 8: 26, with 5 extra plates. The additional part 9 and 10 contain 22 plates each. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  Fortification  France  Militaria  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An Austrian view on fortification View picture(s) 6 FISCHMEISTER, Johann. Abhandlung über die Feldbefestigungskunst, den Angriff und die Vertheidigung der Feldbefestigungen, nebst einem kurzen Anhange über Kriegsbrücken. Vienna, Universitäts Buchhandlung, 1840. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. 10 large engraved plates, all folding, and numerous illustrations. XII, 283 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Austria  Fortification  Manuals  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the war of Flanders in the first decade of the 17th century: an army general's account View picture(s) 7 GIUSTINIANO, Pompeo. Delle Guerre di Flandra, Libri VI. Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini. Antwerp, J. Trognesio, 1609. 4to. Later vellum, spine ribbed, with red title-label. With title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications. (4), 329, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Flemish  Fortification  History  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on fortification printed by the Elzeviers View picture(s) 8 GOLDMAN, Nicolas. La nouvelle fortification. 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. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Fortification  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Karl Kaspar IV, Count of Leyen View picture(s) 9 GOULON, [Charles]. Memoires pour l'Attaque et pour la Défense d'une Place. 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. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Armorial Bindings  Dutch  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fortification and military architecture, artillery and fireworks View picture(s) 10 GRUBER, Johann Sebastian. Neuer und gründlicher Unterricht, von der heutigen Fortification und Artillerie : in zwey Bücher verfasset : worinnen in dem Ersten bey der Fortification gehandelt wird, was so wol in Auferbauung, als Attaquirung und Defendirung einer Vestung in acht zu nehmen. Nebenst einem kurzen Begriff von dem nöthigsten Stücken der Arithmetic und Geometrie : in dem Andern aber bey der Artillerie wird gewiesen, wie deren gebräuchliche Sorten in allen gebührend zu verfertigen, un so wol off- als defensive zu Wasser und Land, Nachts und Tages, recht und mit Nutzen zu gebrauchen. Nebenst einem Bericht von Zubereitung einiger Ernst-Feuerwerckes-Kugeln. Nürnberg, Johann Hoffmanns seel. Wittib, Engelbert Strecken, Abraham von Werth, 1700. 8vo. Blue paper covered boards. Engraved double-page frontispiece with a.o. a fortification and an explosion, title in red & black, 10 numbered engraved full-page plates & a folding table in the first part and 6 full-page engraved plates (I-VI) in the second part. (6), 290, (2 pp. blank), (6); (2), 316, (2 blank), (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Arms & Armour  Fireworks  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An Italian military man depicting the the towns and fortifications in the Low Countries View picture(s) 11 GUALDO PRIORATO, [Galeazzo]. Teatro del Belgio 'o sia descritione delle Diecisette Provincie del Medesimo; Con le Piante delle Città, e Fortezze Principali; da chi al presente possesse; come, in qual modo, & in qual tempo acquistate. Vienna, Michele Thurnmayer, 1673. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt. With richly engraved frontispiece with the coat-of-arms of all Seventeen Provinces, title within woodcut borders, engraving on title, large folding general map, 2 large folding views of a sea-battle and an army crossing the Rhine, and 120 double-page fortified plans of all main cities of the Netherlands. (14), 148, (6) pp. text within woodcut borders. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [General]  Cartography  Fortification  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous book on Warfare in the Dutch army in the time of Maurits View picture(s) 12 HONDIUS, Hendrick. Korte beschrijvinge, ende af-beeldinge van de generale regelen der fortificatie, de artillerie, munition, ende vivres, van de officieren der selve ende hare commissien, van de leger-aerde-wallen, de approchen met het tegenweer, ende van vyerwercken. The Hague, Hendrik Hondius I, 1624. 4 parts in one vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With first title within richly engraved architectural framework with 6 pennons at the top showing a dog ('Hondius') on the left and "Hh inventor" on the right; the three other titles printed within fine engraved ornamental framework, all three adaptations of a plate by Crispyn van den Queborn; part 1: 11 engraved plans of fortifications, 10 double-page, one full-page and one smaller engraving in the text; part 2: numerous illustrations and figures of heavy artillery on 2 double-page folding engraved plates; part 3: 2 double-page large engraved plates glued together (Hollstein 309-310) and a very large folding engraved plate (302x890mm) printed on two leaves of the two armies of Stadholder Maurits and archduke Albert on the beach of Nieuwpoort at the beginning of the famous battle of 1600 by Floris Balthasar (not in Hollstein!, Muller 1137); part 4: 3 full-page engraved plates of the sieges of Ostende, Grave and Gulick (Julliers), and a double page plate of the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom, furthermore a full-page plate of a cross section of a ship, two logs joined by a chain, a clock and a ship used for fireworks. (8), 78, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to behave like a prince View picture(s) 13 KOLBE VON WARTENBERG, Johann Casimi. Väterliche Instruction an seine Kinder, nummehr zum dritten mahl auffgeleget, Mit einer ganz neuen Vorrede, wie auch unterschiedenen sehr nützlichen Nachrichten, das Wartenbergische Hauss, und dessen einzigen noch übrigen Erben, den itzigen Herrn Grafen von Wartenberg betreffend. Berlin, Johann Michael Rüdiger, 1704. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by I.W. Heckemaur, title printed in red and black, full-page engraved portrait of the author, and woodcut vignette on separate title for the genealogy of the House of Kolbe von Wartenberg. [88], 296, [24] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arithmetics  Calligraphy  Education  Fencing  Fortification  Hunting  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The art of fortification dedicated to Fernando de Medici View picture(s) 14 LORINI, Buonaiuto. Delle fortificationi, libri cinque. Ne' quali si mostra con le piu facili regole la scienza con la pratica, di fortificare le citta, & altri luoghi sopra diversi siti. Con tutti gli avvertimenti, che per intelligenza di tal materia possono occorrere. Et il particolar soggetto di ciascun libro si dimostra nel roverscio di questa carta. Nuovamente dati in luce. Venice, Gio. Antonio Rampazetto, 1597. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum, painted orange, with ties. Engraved vignette on title, full-page engraved portrait of the author, and hundreds of woodcut illustrations and figures in the text, mostly half- to full-page, several even double-page. (12), 219, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fortification  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fortification explained View picture(s) 15 MELDER, Gerard. Korte en klare Instructie van Regulare en Irregulare Fortificatie, met hare Buyten-Wercken. Te gebruycken, Defensive en Offensive. Een Compagnie, een Regiment, een  Leger te voet en te Peert te logeren, en in verscheyde soorte van Bataillons te stellen. Met een korte weder-legginge der sustenu van de Heer Henrick Ruse, over de hedendaagsche Fortificatie. By gevoegt 50 Lustige Questien, met hare Solventien.- APPENDIX... Waer in alleenlijck gerefuteert wort Rusii aenwijsinge der misverstanden van G. Melder. Utrecht, Jan van Waesberge, 1658. 2 parts in 1 vol. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. With fine engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on 2 titles, 11 folding woodcut plates with plans of fortification in the main work, 2 folding woodcut plates in the Appendix, and numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in text. (12), 208, (4); 40 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Education  Fortification  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of this rare fortification work View picture(s) 16 REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of verhandeling om de facen, door middel van het metzelwerk, en derzelver zamenstel, tegen de vyandlyke artillery en mines bestendiger en geduurzaamer te doen zyn dan de tegenwoordige. Amsterdam, voor den autheur en zyn te bekomen by Jan Punt junior, (1759). 4to. Contemporary full marbled calf with gilt ornamental lines on sides, gilt and decorated ribbed spine in 6 compartments with gilt title on red label in second compartment. With 3 large engraved folding plates of ca. 490 x 260 mm by J. Punt after drawings by the author, 2 engravings in text by D. van Duffel, woodcut head- and endpieces. XVI, 122 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Artillery  Dutch  Engravings  Fortification  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two important manuals on fortification View picture(s) 17 RUSE, Hendrik. Versterckte vesting, uytgevonden in velerley voorvallen, en geobserveert in dese laetste oorloogen, soo in de Vereenigde Nederlanden, als in Vranckryck, Duyts-lant, Italien, Dalmatien, Albanien, en die daer aengelegen landen. Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1654. With etched title-page and 8 double-page etched plates. [8], 53, [1], [2 blank]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Albania  Denmark  Dutch  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important military manual on gunnery and fortification View picture(s) 18 SAINT-JULIEN, Antoine de & Augustin BRANDEN. Gründlicher Unterricht von der Theoria und Praxi der heutigen Büchsen-Meisterey, als auch des Ernst-Feuer-Wercks nach der Methode des Welt-berühmten Ingenieurs Mr. de Vauban in Frag und Antwort verfasset, und in neun besondere Theile ordentlich eingetheilt. Frankfurt & Leipzig, Johann Ernst Adelbulner for Johann Friederich Rüdigern, 1713. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title in ink on spine, blue painted edges. Double-page engraved frontispiece titled 'Der vollkommene Konstabel', double-page title printed in red and black, one folding woodcut table, 24 folding engraved plates showing how to prepare canons, military utensils, fortifications, etc. of which some with 2 illustrations, several woodcut illustrations and tables in text, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (22), 768 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Artillery  Costumes  Fireworks  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Including chapters devoted to the latest developments in Dutch fortification View picture(s) 19 SARDI, Pietro. Corno Dogale Della Architettura Militare. Venice, I. Giunti, 1639. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved allegorical title including a bust of the author, aged 79, at the bottom, large woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf, 9 mostly double-page engraved plates, 37 large engravings in text, 8 double-page and 14 full-page, and several small woodcut figures in text. (28), 220 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fortification  Italy  Militaria  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Designing fortifications View picture(s) 20 SCALA, Giovanni. Delle fortificationi. Nuovamente ristampate con agiunta d'diverse piante e fortezze. Roma, Gioseppe de Rossi, 1627. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. With engraved title within richly designed military emblematic borders with coat of arms at the top and a plan of fortification at the bottom, 100 elaborately designed and engraved plans and perspectival drawings of detailed parts of fortifications on 50 numbered plates, 10 engraved plans and perspectival designs of full fortifications on 5 plates, 2 engraved illustrations of a canon on 1 plate, and 5 double-page engraved plates with perspectival designs and full plans of fortifications, including a beautiful bird's eye view of the heavily fortified harbour of La Rochelle. (70) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engineering  Engravings  Fortification  Militaria  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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