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Le Parfait Ingenieur Francois, ou La Fortification Offensive et Defensive contenant la Construction, L'Attaque et la Defense des Places Regulieres & Irregulieres, selon les Methodes de Monsieur de Vauban, & des plus Habiles Auteurs de l'Europe .... Nouvelle Edition Corrigee & Augmentee de la Relation du Siege de Lille, & du Siege de Namur, & enrichie de plus de cinquante Planches.
by Deidier (l'Abbe)
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Paris: Jombert, 1742. New Edition.. 4to. Full calf, spine gilt, marbled end papers. Frontispiece & 50 folding plates, as well as vignette illustrations. Frontispiece laid down, names in pen on title, old stain to upper corner of front board, a repaired tear in the large folding plan of Namur; in general, a very clean and quite handsome copy, the plates in excellent condition. First published in 1734, this 1742 Third Edition adds accounts of the Siege of Namur (1692) and the Siege of Lille (1708).
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- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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- Title
- Le Parfait Ingenieur Francois, ou La Fortification Offensive et Defensive contenant la Construction, L'Attaque et la Defense des Places Regulieres & Irregulieres, selon les Methodes de Monsieur de Vauban, & des plus Habiles Auteurs de l'Europe .... Nouvelle Edition Corrigee & Augmentee de la Relation du Siege de Lille, & du Siege de Namur, & enrichie de plus de cinquante Planches.
- Author
- Deidier (l'Abbe)
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- Paris: Jombert, 1742. New Edition.
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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