Veritable Maniere De Bien Fortifier De Mr. De Vauban. Où L'on Voit De Quelle Methode On Se Sert Aujourd'hui En France, Pour La Fortification Des Places. Le Tout Mis En Ordre Par M. L'abbé Du Fay Et Le Chevalier De Cambray. Nouvelle éDition CorrigéE & AugmentéE De La Moitié. [Vauban (Sebastien Le Prestere De)] Military

New revised and enlarged edition, 2 vols., 8vo, [2], 89, [7]; 147, [3]pp., titles printed in red and black with vignette, engraved frontispieces and one folding engraved plate to volume one, 8 folding engraved geometrical plates and 20 folding engraved plates marked from A to X at the end of the second volume, plates with neat library blind stamp, numerous woodcuts in the text, some occasional spotting, calf calf, rubbed, upper cover detached. Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), engineer and military architect, member of the French academy of sciences and Marshal of France, was Commissioner General of fortifications from 1678 to 1703. He is known as one of the greatest military engineers of all times and one of the greatest figures of France during the reign of the Sun King. Provenance: Ownership inscription to front endpapers of J. Boudrillon (1737); Jeff. Hogg, Univ. Coll. Oxon.