VAUBAN (Sébastien LE PRESTRE, marshal of). Of... Lot 14

VAUBAN (Sébastien LE PRESTRE, marshal of). Of the Attack and the Defense of the Places. In The Hague, At Pierre De Hondt, 1737. 2 volumes in-4°, calfskin, spine decorated, title in red morocco (binding of the time). This volume "constitutes the FIRST EDITION of the treatise De l'Attaque des places, increased by the editor of a second part entitled: " Contenant un traité pratique des mines ", attributed to Vauban as a fragment of the Traité de la défense des places, but which reproduces, in reality, the essence of the " Discours sur la défense des places, présenté à Louis XIV en 1675 ", by Guillaume de La Fon de Boisguerin, seigneur Deshoulières. " Eleven folded engraved plates (num. I to XI) and 35 folded engraved plates (num. I to XXXIII).