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Fortificazioni - Fritach, Adam
L'architecture militaire ou la fortification nouvelle augmentee et enrichie, 1635
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€ 500 - 700
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€ 576
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Leiden, Elzevier, 1635. In 2nd. Finely engraved chalcographic title page, full page with allegorical drawings, headboards, floral caps, end caps, 35 beautiful double-page engraved plates f.t. illustrating different types of fortifications, 8 tables of fortification measures, coeval binding in full parchment, blooms and brownings.
Specialist Notes
Willems 425; Pollak, 24: "This lavishly illustrated treatise is considered one of the most influential published in the XVII century. Freitag's treatise definitively interpreted the Dutch fortification style and made it available to a large German public" - Berlin Katalog, 3525 cites the first ed. of 1631 - Brunet, II, 1389 cites the ed. French of 1635, i.e. the present.
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