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[DU BREUIL (Jean)].
The universal art of fortifications, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and composed. Paris, Jacques du Breuil father and son, 1665. In-4, marbled basane, spine decorated, red title coin, red edges (contemporary binding).
Original edition of this treatise on fortifications by Jean du Breuil (1602-1670), son of a Parisian bookseller, who practised the same profession as his father before joining the Society of
Jesus.
Frontispiece and 4 full-page figures engraved on copper by Le Pautre, large coat-of-arms plate on the reverse of the title, and 93 large figures on copper in the text (mainly geometric figures and fortification plans). The engravings on pp. 58 and 59 have not been
printed.
Stamp with the initials DFL repeated. A few scorched sheets. Traces of epidermis at the binding.
The universal art of fortifications, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and composed. Paris, Jacques du Breuil father and son, 1665. In-4, marbled basane, spine decorated, red title coin, red edges (contemporary binding).
Original edition of this treatise on fortifications by Jean du Breuil (1602-1670), son of a Parisian bookseller, who practised the same profession as his father before joining the Society of
Jesus.
Frontispiece and 4 full-page figures engraved on copper by Le Pautre, large coat-of-arms plate on the reverse of the title, and 93 large figures on copper in the text (mainly geometric figures and fortification plans). The engravings on pp. 58 and 59 have not been
printed.
Stamp with the initials DFL repeated. A few scorched sheets. Traces of epidermis at the binding.