Traité de la défence des Places [...]. Seconde éditon, retouchée et augmentée.

4to: xxiii-318-156 pp.

Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands, marbl. endpapers, red edges. Good copy.

Second edition of Le Blond's treatise on military defence systems and fortification architecture. Illustrated with 20 folding engr. depicting bastions, artillery and tables with munition quantities. This volume also includes an alphabetical dictionary by the publisher with military terminology.
Prov. Henri Joseph Francotte (bookpl.).