MANUSCRIT. - VAUBAN]. Traité de la deffence... - Lot 44 - Giquello

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MANUSCRIT. - VAUBAN]. Traité de la deffence... - Lot 44 - Giquello
MANUSCRIT. - VAUBAN]. Traité de la deffence des places où l'on fait voir la propriété des pièces de fortification qui les composent, la manière de les approvisionner de toutes les munitions nécessaires, et les moyens de leur faire une belle deffence. By Mgr le Mal de Vauban. S.l.n.d. [18th century]. Small manuscript in-folio (320 x 185 mm) of 164 pages, green vellum, red title on the back, red edges (18th century binding). Eighteenth century manuscript copied from Vauban's treaties, illustrated with 9 hand-drawn and hand-colored plates representing plans and profiles of fortified places. Handwritten note on a guard, indicating that this copy was made by a certain Claude Jamart de Baronville, ordinary engineer of the King and chief of brigade, who died on May 1, 1748, from the wound he had received at the siege of Maastricht. The standard plans, like those for the sieges of Ath and Menin in 1706, are by the same engineer. The manuscript was given to a person whose name has been scratched out. Tiny restored tear on the edge of the 4th plate. Stains on the first plate, hinges cracked.
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