Military History / Fortification & Military Architecture

REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of Verhandeling om de facen ... bestendiger ... te doen zyn ... Opgesteld ten nutte der krygsbouwkunde, en derzelver min of meer gevorderde bearbeiders.
Amsterdam, printed for the author [by Izaak and Johannes Enschedé in Haarlem?], sold by Jan Punt junior, [1759]. Large 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). With 3 folding engraved plates with 14 numbered figures drawn by the author and executed by Jan Punt and 2 engravings in text. 19th-century half parchment. [16], 121, [1] pp. Full description

ROZARD, Johann Claude de. Nouvelle fortification Françoise, où il est traité de la construction des places...
Nuremberg, Jean George Lochner, 1731. 2 volumes: text (4to) and atlas (oblong folio). With an engraved frontispiece, engraved illustration on title-page and some woodcut initials and tailpieces. Atlas volume with 37 engraved plates, including some folding, and 1 letterpress table. Contemporary vellum, text volume with a red title-label on spine. [20], 148; [4], 156 pp. Full description

SALE, Sir Robert H. (and others). The defence of Jellalabad, ... drawn on stone by W.L. Walton.
London, Joseph Hogarth, Henry Graves & Co., and sold by Hullmandel & Walton, [1845/46]. 1mo (full-sheet leaves) (54 x 37 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece portrait of Sale by Thomas Fairl and after a painting by Scarlet Davis, a lithographed illustrated title-page, a lithographed dedication to Queen Victoria (reproducing Sales hand-written and signed dedication), a double-page "Plan of Jellalabad" (51.5 x 60 cm, lithographed by S. Leith in Edinburgh) and 34 tinted lithographic views of the city and its fortifications (in landscape format) on 22 leaves.
Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, richly gold-tooled turn-ins, gold-tooled board edges, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Lithographed frontispiece, title-page & dedication plus 5, [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description

[VIEW - SURINAM]. SCHLEY, Jacob van der. Gezicht van de stad Paramaribo en het Fort Zelandia in Suriname.
[Amsterdam, 1770]. Engraved view (21.5 x 36 cm), with caption below the image. Full description

SÉA. Mémoire sur la fortification permanente, pour servir a la construction d'un front de fortification sur le terrain, ... Nouvelle édition.
Saint Petersburg, Pluchart et comp., 1818. 2 volumes. Large 4to (26 x 21.5 cm & 27.5 x 22 cm). With 20 (of 21?) engraved plates (13 double-page and 7 large folding), and 3 full-page tables. Contemporary half-calf, gold-tooled spines. [12], XIX, [1 blank], 284, [3], [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description

SIDERIUS, Mattheus. De theorie van de vesting-bouw, vertoont in de drie versterkings manieren van den heer Vauban. ...
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, Gerrit Tresling, 1765. 8vo. With 29 numbered folding plates (I-XXIX) and 2 folding letterpress tables (A & B). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [16], 285, [2], [1 blank] pp. plus plates and tables. Full description

STEVIN, Simon. Festung-Bawung, das ist, Kurtze und eygentliche Beschreibung, wie man Festungen bawen, unnd sich wider allen gewaltsamen Anlauff der Feinde zu Kriegszeiten auffhalten, sichern und verwahren möge: ...
Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the widow of Levinius Hulsius, 1608. 4to. With a woodcut fortification plan on the title-page and about 30 woodcut illustrations in the text. Lacking the 2 woodcut plates and 3 smaller woodcut slips. 20th-century grey-brown half calf. [8], 132 pp. Full description

STURM, Leonhard Christoph. Freundlicher Wett-streit der französischen, holländischen und teutschen Krieges-Bau-Kunst, worinnen die Befestigungs-Manier des Hrn. von Vauban an Neu-Breisach, die beste Manier des Hrn. von Coehoorn, und Zweyerley Vostellungen der von L.C. Sturm publicirten, und nach des weit-berühmten Hrn. George Rimplers Maximen eingerichteten Manier, ...
Augsburg, Jeremia Wolffens, printed by Peter Detleffsen, 1718. Folio. With 19 engraved plates (18 folding and 1 double-page), numbered I-XIX, and 1 woodcut illustration in text. Modern paper boards. [10], 66 pp. Full description

STURM, Leonhard Christoph. Architectura militaris hypothetico-eclectica, oder gründliche Anleitung zu der Kriegs-Baukunst...
Nuremberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 1719. 4to. With an engraved device on title-page, an engraved headpiece on the first page of the dedication, engraved author's portrait, 42 engraved plates with 79 illustrations, 23 letterpress tables and with woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, lovely gold-brocade endpapers. [16], 144, 23, [1] Full description

STURM, Leonhard Christoph. Der wahre Vauban, oder der von den Deutschen und Holländern verbesserte französische Ingenieur ...
Nuremberg, George Peter Monath, 1761. With an engraved frontispiece and 31 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) GOULON, Louis. Bericht von Belagerung und Vertheidigung einer Festung.Nuremberg, George Peter Monath, 1761. With 4 engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Modern plain paper boards. [6], 157, [11]; 56 pp. Full description