DÖGEN, Matthias Lot n° 28

Modern Military Architecture, or Fortification: confirmed by various histories both old and new, & enriched with figures of the main fortresses in Europe, by Matthias Dögen, a native of Dramburg on the March. Mise en françois by Helie Poirier, Parisian. Amsterdam, Louys Elzevier, 1648. In-folio, (6), with engraved title, 547 pp., 10 table editions interspersed between pages 56-57, 104-105 and 130-131, 70 plates engraved in intaglio on double page, wet, clear, especially the margins, brown stockings of the spine, spine with nerves, missing headpieces, cracks in the flesh, roughly varnished binding.