Author: Mandar, C. F. (Charles Francois).
Title: De l'architecture des forteresses ou, De l'art de fortifier les places, et de disposer les Établissemens de tout genre, qui ont rapport à la guerre. Première Partie. Essai sur la fortification.
Description: Paris, Magimel, 1801. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. xii, 698, (2) extended Errata. Plus 8 folding engraved plates bound at end with hundreds illustrations of various fortification designs. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, 2 contrasting gilt morocco lettering-piece to spine, extremities trifle rubbed, small old shelf ticket, old military institutional stamp to verso of title. In a very good condition. Nice, clean copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edition, 1910) has described this book as "one of the more important works on the subject of fortification and siege war", and the book has been listed as such together with the works of the great fortification theoreticians Dürer, de Ville, Coehoorn, Vauban, Noizet, as well as the later writers Plessix and Legrand, Ritter von Brunner, and Delambre. Charles Francois Mandar (1757-1845). Jordan 2337. D-3 .

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