Author: STEVIN, Simon.
Title: La Castrametation. (ET: Nouvelle maniere de fortification par escluses.)
Description: Leiden, Matthieu & Bonaventura Elsevier, 1618. Folio (c.29, 9x19, 5cm). 2 parts in 1 vol. [vi], 54, [2 blank] -[iv], 61 pp. With 2 full page engravings: portrait of prince Maurice of Orange and his coat of arms; numerous woodcuts in the text and 1 folding woodcut. Private half calf, gilt spine. (a few pages with small, marginal water stain; a fine copy with ample margins) ¶ VERY RARE ELSEVIER TITLE-ISSUES of the 1618 Waesberghe editions. Not in the STCN. Our copy is another issue of the rare Waesberghe edition. Matthieu and Bonaventura Elsevier did publish a second edition of this book, "revueuë et corrigée" in the same year. Our copy however is set entirely in the type of the first edition (including the misprint "grace Dieu" on the title page). Only the publisher's name has been altered to Matthieu and Bonaventura Elsevier. See Dijksterhuis, XII, note; for the Waesberghe edition and the second, corrected edition Sloos, 'Warfare and the age of printing', 081014 and 081015; Willems 149 (Elsevier edition only); Hoogendoorn StevS13F. None of them mentions this title-issue of the first edition. Only mentioned by Rahir 120: Printed by Isaac Elzevier.

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