Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
MANNINGHAM, HENRY. A Compleat Treatise of Mines. 21 folding engraved plates. xix, [1], 168 pages. 8vo, 211x131 mm, crude modern leather; occasional light foxing or soiling of text, plates generally clean, later owner's signature on title. London: Charles Say for J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1756

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Second edition of a 1752 work on mine warfare based on Pierre Surirey de Saint-Rémy's Mémoires d'Artillerie, with translated excerpts from related writings by Jean-Florent de Vallière and Bernard Forest de Belidor.