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Live auction - Lot 787
[Mathematics - Militaria]
"Sammelband" with treatises on mathematics, fortification and military architecture.
[France?, 18th c.]
€ 2.000 / 2.500
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Lot description
Manuscript on paper, c. 22,5 x 17 cm, [6]-cxi-[9 bl., 1, 1 bl.]-288-[41 bl.] pp., written in black/brown ink (soiled, dampstained with a few old spots).
Cont. sheep, gilt spine (rubbed, warping, spine dam.). In reasonably good condition.
Four parts: A. "Disquisitio mathematica de arte feia et usu numerorum" (pp. I-CXI). - B. "Mathematicae militares" (pp. 1-65) with some 45 pen drawings and diagrams. - C. "Architecture militaire. Traité de fortification" (pp. 67-127). - D. Over 50 drawings, plans, maps of fortified places in Europe, i.a. "Grolle" (1628), "Oldenzael" (1626), "Coeuuorde", "Bourtange", "Dam[m]e", "Moeurs", " St. Estienne", "Juliers", "Leucate", "Hulst", "Flessingue", "Ligourne", , "Graueline" (1644), "L’écluse", "La Rochelle" (1628), "Sas de Gand" (1644), "Breda", "Bolduc" (1629), "Hesdin", "Ruremonde" (1632), "Venloo" (1632), "Wesel" (1629), "Sedan", "Saumur" (1621), "Royan" (1622), "La Mothe" (1634), "Perpignan" (1642), "Turin", "Casal", "Orange", etc. Prov. Armorial stamp (p. I).