Fortifications
LE BLOND : Elémens de Fortification. Containing the reasoned construction of the works of Fortification; the Systems of the most famous Engineers; the irregular Fortification, etc. - in Paris at Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1764 - In-8 full contemporary spotted tan calf, spine with rubbed nerves forming caissons decorated with small gilded angle irons framing central fleurons - 5. edition, "increased with the detailed explanation of the fortification of M. de Coëhorn, of the construction of the redoubts, forts of campaign, etc. and of a plan of the various instructions suitable for a military school". Complete with 31 plates containing 37 figures and grouped together at the end of the volume; in fine also an important alphabetical and reasoned table of contents and an abridged dictionary of the terms proper to fortification. Guillaume Le Blond (1704-1781) was an engineer and mathematics teacher of the pages of the king's stable, then of the children of France - Good copy despite some wear
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