Freitag, L'architecture militaire, Paris, 1668, contemporary calf, Essex copy

FREITAG, ADAM

L'architecture militaire ou la fortification nouvelle. Paris: Guillaume de Luyne, 1668

folio (310 x 200mm.), engraved title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, 8 letterpress double-page tables, 35 double-page engraved plates, contemporary speckled calf with gilt crowned monogram SX on upper cover, spine gilt in compartments, A2 and 3 transposed, Y2-3 loose

A reprint of the 1635 Leiden edition (see lot 186) with the same engraved title-page and plates.

LITERATURE:

Cockle 836

PROVENANCE:

Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, armorial bookplate dated 1701 pasted to verso of title-page