Author: DEIDIER, Abbé.
Title: Le parfait ingenieur françois, ou La fortification offensive et défensive contenant la construction, l'attaque et la défense des places réguliers & irréguliers, selon les méthodes de mrs. de Vauban, Coëhorn, Pagan, de Ville, & des autres qui ont écrit sur cette science. With engraved title-page by Le Pautre after Santer and 42 folding plates (3 and 4 on one leaf)
Description: Paris, Ch.-A. Jombert, 1736.In-4. [x], 346, [2] pp. Mottled calf, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands and red label. (Front joint splitting a bit, corners bumped, tail end spine dam.) ¶ Abbé Deidier (1696-1746) published several mathemathical works. He was i.a. professor of artillerie at the military school in La Fère. ¶ Except for the preliminary quire and A1 - and of course the presence of 'Approbation en Privileges du roy" the typesetting and fingerprint are identical to the Amsterdam (?) edition of 1734 .

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