Artillery, Rivault, Les elemens de l'artillerie, 1608; La Fontaine, Devoirs des officiers de l'artillerie, 1675, 2 vols

ARTILLERY, FRENCH

Two seventeenth-century works, comprising:

i. Rivault, F. Les elemens de l'artillerie. Paris: Adrian Beys, 1608, 2 parts in one, 8vo, 3 folding woodcut plates, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, old vellum, [Cockle 676], one plate with tear (no loss), lacking ties

ii. La Fontaine, sieur de. Les devoirs des officiers de l'artillerie. Paris: Loyson, 1675, 12mo, engraved frontispiece and 10 folding plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt, rubbed, head of spine chipped