FABRE (Jean). Les practiques du sieur Fabre, sur l'ordre et - Lot 64

FABRE (Jean). Les practiques du sieur Fabre, sur l'ordre et reigle de fortifier, garder, attaquer et defendre les places. Paris, chez Samuel Thiboust, 1629. Four parts in 1 vol. in-folio, [1] f. (title), 205 p. continuous [i.e. 212, often incorrect pagination] (including engraved title), [3] f. (false-title of parts 2, 3 and 4), [6] f. (explanation of terms, privileges.., and last blank f.), 1 [of 2] plates, figs, modest contemporary boards (boards faded, spine lacerated, sustained wetness to title, frontispiece and dedication, then sporadic; hors-texte map missing). First edition of this treatise on fortification and surveying, written by Jean Fabre, Ingénieur ordinaire aux fortifications de France, who had published a manual on the same subject as early as 1624. It is illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece by M. Tavernier, a plate and numerous woodcut figures in the text, most of them full-page.