Military History / Fortification & Military Architecture

MAROLOIS, Samuel. Mathematicum opus absolutissimum: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturae & perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, & figuras perfectissimas. Studio atque opera Alberti Girardi, ... Recognitum ac multis notis illustratum.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1638 [altered in manuscript to 1658]. 7 parts (paginated as 6) in 2 volumes. Folio. The general title printed letterpress on a slip of paper pasted over the 1638 engraved title-page of the French edition, 7 letterpress part-titles, each with the same Janssonius woodcut device, with all together 271 double-page engraved plates, partly by Henricus Hondius. Further with several woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 5 double thongs, in a panel design made with a large roll and triple fillets, new endpapers.
With:
(2) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Geometria theoretica ac practica: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1633. With 47 double-page engraved plates, numbered 1-42 and 1-5.
(3) MAROLOIS, Samuel.. Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis, pars prima: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1644.
(4) MAROLOIS, Samuel.. Fortificationis, sive artis muniendi, pars secunda.
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius,1644. With 40 double-page engraved plates.
(5) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Architectura: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius,1633. With 30 double-page engraved plates by Henricus Hondius after the designs by Vredeman de Vries, one dated 1601.
(6) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Opticae, sive perspectivae, pars prima: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius 1633. With 80 double-page engraved plates, some by Henricus Hondius, incl. 6 views of buildings in Rome (nos. 54-59) in roundels, after the drawings by Petrus Stephanus.
(7) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectiva theoretica ac practica.
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1633.
(8) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectivae pars II: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1632. With 49, 24 (+ 1) numbered double-page engraved plates depicting geometrical and mathematical figures on perspective. [4], 51, [1 blank]; 39, [1 blank]; 40; [20]; [2], 50; [2], 24 pp. Full description

MELDER, Gerard. Korte en klare instructie van regulare en irregulare fortificatie, met hare buyten-wercken. Te gebruycken defensive en offensive. Een compagnie, een regiment, een leger te voet en te peert te logeren, en in verscheyde soorte van bataillons te stellen... By gevoegt 50 lustige questien, met hare solutien.
Including: MELDER, Gerard. Appendix aen de instructie vande fortificatie en bataillons, met een korte wederlegginge der sustenu van H. Ruse over de hedendaeghsche fortificatie.
Utrecht, Jan van Waesberge, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page, 13 woodcut folding fortification plans, and numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in text. Contemporary vellum. [12], 208, [4]; 40 pp. Full description

MELDER, Gerard. Korte en klare instructie van regulare en irregulare fortificatie, met hare buyten-wercken. Te gebruycken defensive en offensive... By-gevoegt 50 lustige questien, met hare solutien.
Including: MELDER, Gerard. Appendix aen de instructie vande fortificatie en bataillons...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Waesberge, 1664. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece (dated 1658 from the first edition), folding letterpress table, 41 numbered woodcut illustrations in text (31) and on inserted leaves (10), numerous unnumbered woodcut illustrations in text, and 2 folding woodcut plans, signed A and B, in the Appendix. Contemporary vellum. [16], 208; 40 pp. Full description

[MILITARY]. Geometria of meetkonst ... Vestingbou of fortificatie ... [Artillerie].
[Netherlands, ca. 1750]. 3 related works in 1 volume. Folio. With numerous mathematical diagrams, fortification plans and measured drawings of artillery and ammunition, including 12 full-page watercolour drawings (3 fortification plans and 9 beautifully rendered canons) and many more watercolour drawings in the text. With a large folding fortification plan tipped in, a large folding artillery drawing loosely inserted, and several smaller drawings tipped in or loosely inserted. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [2 blank], [40], [12 blank]; [37 (plus a folding plan & other inserts)], [5 blank]; [22] (plus a folding drawing), [16 blank] ll. including the integral paste-downs. Full description

MONTALEMBERT, Marc-René de. La fortification perpendiculaire, ou essai sur plusieurs manieres de fortifier la ligne droite, le triangle, le quarré, & tous les polygônes, ...
Paris, Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1776-1778. 4 (of 5) volumes. Large 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece in volume 1 and with a total of 87 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [8], XL, 225, [7]; [6], XVI, 322, [4]; [12], XL, 248, [2]; [4], 397, [3] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. MUELEN, L. van der. Belegering en verdediging der vestingen bij de ouden en in den tegenwoordigen tijd.
[The Netherlands?, ca. 1805]. 4to (ca. 20 x 16 cm). With 8 full-page ink drawings with grey washes, showing defence and siege engines. Contemporary gold-tooled half goat skin with an orange title label on the spine lettered in gold, brown sprinkled paper sides. [2], 134, [4] pp. Full description

PAGAN, Blaise François. Nieuwe vesting-bouw, ... vermeerdert door Johan Jacob Wertmuller. ... Tweeden druk.
Dordrecht, Christoffel der Moey, 1745. 8vo. With an engraved half-title, 18 folding engraved plates and letterpress tables. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. Engraved half-title + [16], 205, [3] pp. + plates. Full description

PALMQUIST, Erich. Nagre widh sidste Kongl. ambassaden till Tzaren i Muskou giorde observationer öfwer Ryszland, dess wäger, pasz med fästningar och gräntzer - Sammandragne aff Erich Palmquist anno 1674.
Stockholm, Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt, [1898]. Large oblong folio. With the 1674 title-page, the text, 14 maps and charts, 13 full-page illustrations and several figures on one page (1 page illustrating flags hand-coloured as published). All lithographed after the original manuscript. Paper imitating tree calf, with a gilt-stamped frame, gold-tooled spine. [72] pp, some leaves printed on one side only. Full description

[OTTOMAN PORT]. [PEETERS, Johannes (Jan) (after)]. [Ladimistri nel' archipelago].
[The Netherlands(?), ca. 1720?]. Oblong folio (19.5 x 31.5 cm). Pen and blue-black ink-wash drawing on laid paper, showing the city of Edremit, its harbour and fortifications, with an Ottoman and a Dutch(?) ship, and a lighthouse, in a brown thick-thin-thin border, signed in the border below right, but difficult to read (I. P. Sto...?, I. P. Ste...?). Framed (37 x 49 cm). Full description

[MALTA]. RADEMAKER, [Gerard?]. Malta. [View of the castle, fortifications and harbour of Valetta].
[Malta(?), ca. 1700?]. 14 x 44 cm. Ink and colour wash drawing, signed in the lower right corner: "Rademaker". Mounted in a rice-paper window kept under passe-partout. Full description