The new method of fortification : as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, engineer general of France : with an explication of all terms appertaining to that art : made English.

The new method of fortification : as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, engineer general of France : with an explication of all terms appertaining to that art : made English.

Nouvelle manière de fortifier. English

London : Printed for Abel Swall, at the Unicorm at the west-end of St. Paul's Church-yard, 1691.

[16], 79, [1]; 104 p., [32] leaves of plates (most folded) : ill. ; 19 cm (8vo)

Translated by Abel Swall.

Plates consist of an added engraved title page, 8 plates numbered 1-8 accompanying A new treatise of geometry (B-F), and 23 plates lettered A-X (minus 'J', 'U'; + 'W') accompanying A new treatise of fortification (²B-H).

Signatures: A-F⁸; ²B-G⁸ H⁴.

"An advertisement to the book-binder" with specific instructions for binding the plates (leaf A4v).

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R15758
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), L1116

Great Britain -- England -- London.

267- 662q

Imperfect: wanting plate P. Treatise on geometry bound after treatise on fortification. In modern blind-tooled calf, period style. Bought from Tavistock Books, 17 January 2013.

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