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BEHR, Johann Heinrich. Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne oder gründlich alt- und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst.
Frankfurt and Leipzig, widow of Reinhard Wächtler, printed by Christoph Balthasar Lampe, 1690. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates. Contemporary calf. Full description

BENEDICTI, Hieronymus (engraver).

[Spine title]: Abhandlung über die Befestigungskunst.
[Vienna?], 1801-1803. Oblong folio. With 42 engraved plates, including 2 folding. Contemporary half sheepskin.

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BÖHM, Andreas.

Gründliche Anleitung zur Kriegs-Baukunst. Erster Theil [only part published] von Festungen oder beständigen haupt-Kriegsgebäuden.
Frankfurt and Leipzig, Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, 1776. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece and 24 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, richly gold-tooled spine.

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CHASSELOUP-LAUBAT, François, Marquis de.

Versuche über einige Theile der Artillerie und der Befestigungskunst, ... Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit einem Nachtrage begleitet, von Ignaz Rueber, ... Mit neun Kupfertafeln.
Vienna, J.G. Heubner, 1826. 8vo. With 9 large folding engraved plates (I-IX) with 117 numbered figures (1-74 & 1-43). Near contemporary (ca. 1835?) half calf, gold-tooled spine.

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CLAIRAC, Louis André de.

Abhandlung von der Befestigungskunst im Felde.
Breslau and Leipzig, Johann Jacob Korn, 1755. 4to. With 41 folding engraved plates and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

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COEHOORN, Menno van. Neuer Vestungs-Bau.
Düsseldorff, Jacobus von Wesel (colophon: printed by the heirs of Johann Kattepoel), 1709. 4to. With 14 (of 15) folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned sheepskin. Full description

DÖGEN, Matthias.

Heutiges tages übliche Kriges Bau-kunst...
Including: DÖGEN, Matthias. Streit-bau-Kunst, ...
Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1648. Folio (31 x 21 cm). With engraved title-page, 29 (A-Ff) and 40 (of 41, unnumbered) double-page engraved plates. With 3 unsigned quires (together 20 pp.) with letterpress tables of data made for this edition, but lacking in many copies. Lacking the unnumbered double-page engraved plate of "Nova Palma" as in many copies. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum.

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ERRARD, Jean.

Fortificatio, das ist, Künstliche und wolgegründte Demonstration und Erweisung, wie und welcher Gestalt gute Festungen anzuordnen, ...
Oppenheim, Hieronymus Galler, 1620. Folio. With engraved title-page, the engraved arms of the dedicatee, 47 numbered engraved plates (2 single-page and 45 double-page), numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Later 17th-century vellum over flexible boards.

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FAULHABER, Johann. Geheime Kunstkammer: darin[n]en hundert allerhand Kriegs Stratagemata, auch andere unerhörte Secreta, und Machinae mirabiles zusehen, dergleichen in Europa (respectivè) wening zu finden. 
Ulm, Jonam Saur, 1628. 4to. Half vellum (ca. 1900). Full description

FREITAG, Adam.

Architectura militaris nova et aucta, oder Newe vermehrte Fortification, ...
Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier, 1665. With an integral engraved general title-page, 35 double-page engraved plates containing 185 numbered figures (at least the two signed plates by Willem Hondius), and 8 double-page letterpress tables. Contemporary(?) calf.

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