Military History / Fortification & Military Architecture

[MAP - NETHERLANDS - UTRECHT]. [Manuscript map of Utrecht].
[Netherlands, late 18th century]. Manuscript map (38 x 52.5 cm) on paper, in brown ink with bright green and red watercolour. With 3 panels at top left, middle and right, with keys to 31 important locations, a compass rose, a scale, and detail drawings of several buildings. Full description

VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de [and Guillaume de Lafon de Boisguérin, seigneur DESHOULIERES]. De l'attaque et de la defense des places...
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1737. With: (2) VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de. De l'attaque et de la defense des places... tome second. ...
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1742.
2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). Ad 1 with 36 folding engraved plates and ad 2 with 11 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [18], 216; [1], [1 blank], [14], "180" [=188], [34] pp. Full description

VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de. De l'attaque et de la defense des places...
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1737. Large 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). With 35 folding engraved plates, lacking plate XV. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [18], 216 pp. Full description

VILLE, Antoine de. Les fortifications ... contenans la maniere de fortifier toutes sorte de places ...
Lyon, Philippe Borde, 1640 (engraved title-page 1641). With an engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 53 numbered engravings (10 double-page. Later 17th-century gold-tooled calf, each board with the French royal arms, gold-tooled spine. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. Engraved title + [10], 441, [1 blank], [12] pp. plus 9 engravings not counted in the pagination. Full description

VIRGIN, Johan Bernhard and Joseph von XYLANDER (translator). Vertheidigung der Festungen im Gleichgewichte mit dem Angriffe derselben. ... Mit 14 Planen.
München, Joseph Lindauer, 1820. 8vo. With 14 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned half sheepskin. XXIV, 416 pp. Full description

WARIUS, Pieter. Nieuwe verklaring over de proportionaal passer, waar in aangewesen word, hoe dezelve is te tekenen, en hoe tafeltjes daar toe dienende konnen werden berekent, vervolgens der zelver veelvuldig en nuttig gebruyk, zoo in de tel- als meetkonst; ...
Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, 1708. 4to. With a large folding engraved plate illustrating the scales on the sector and 12 smaller folding engraved plates showcasing several of the calculations. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [4], 72 pp. Full description

WILLIAM V of Orange. Missive van zyn hoogheid [aan de heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. 24 mey 1784].
[The Hague?,] 1784.
With:
(2) WILLIAM V of Orange. Missive van zyne hoogheid met een detail van de reedenen en motiven waarom niet voor de resolutie van den 7 deezer een groot aantal troupes naar de frontieren had gezonden. Commiss. 25 mey 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(3) [FORTIFICATION]. Rapport van gecommiteerdens nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(4) [FORTIFICATION]. Resolutie op het rapport nopens den staat van 'slands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. 26 november 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(5) [FORTIFICATION]. Bylaagen gehorende tot het rapport van gecommiteerden nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenaalen, ter vergadering van hun edele groot mog. Overgenoomen den 23 july 1784. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784. With 7 folding tables.
(6) [FORTIFICATION]. Extract uit het register der resolutien van de hoog mogende heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Jovis den 25 november 1784
Including: Memorie van consideratien en elucidatien van den Raade van Staate ..., op het rapport ..., nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenalen ...
[The Hague?,] 1784.
6 publications in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. 10, [2 blank]; 5, [3 blank]; 63, [1]; 6, [1 blank], [1]; 288; 55, [1 blank] pp. Full description