"Traité de fortification ou les Elements de la guerre, donné à l’Ecole de La Ferre 1723".

4to-size, c. 19,5 x 16 cm: [242] ff. incl. a few blanks; 23 fold. architectural pen drawings, some hand-coloured.

Contemp. decorative boards, flat spine (sl. rubbed). Very good condition, partly uncut.

Treatise on "la fortification reguliere selon les methodes de monsieur de Vauban et selon celle des habiles ingenieurs du temps" (title of Bk. I), as taught in the artillery school of La Ferre (Fère-en-Tardenois in Aisne). The drawings (with scales) deal with fortresses, barracks, arsenals and the like. Some are titled "Citadelle de Cazal [Casale Monferrato]" etc., "La fortification de Landau", "Bastion du comte de Pagan".