Errard, La fortification, Frankfurt am Main, 1617, contemporary vellum gilt

ERRARD, JEAN

La fortification reduicte en art et demonstree... edition seconde, augmentee de plusieurs desseins. Frankfurt: Paul Jacobi for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1617

folio (304 x 189mm.), title within engraved border, woodcut initials and headpieces, 47 engraved plates (44 double-page), contemporary vellum gilt, gilt edges, lacking 2 pairs of silk ties

For the rare first edition of 1600, see lot 154. This reprinted (or more likely pirated) edition demonstrates the popularity of Errard's work on fortification, which appeared numerous times in French and German in the early seventeenth century (see lot 156 for the 1620 edition).

LITERATURE:

Cockle 802; VD17 23:297466C

PROVENANCE:

Whyte Melville, of Bennochy and Strathkinness, armorial bookplate