Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MOORE, JONAS, Sir. Modern Fortification; or, Elements of Military Architecture . . . With the Use of a Joynt-Ruler or Sector, for the speedy Description of any Fortification. 9 folding engraved plates numbered 1-10. [16], 127, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece. bound with: MORETTI, TOMASO. A General Treatise of Artillery. English translation and notes by Moore, with appendix on pyrotechnics by Sir Abraham Dager. Woodcut frontispiece and 7 folding plates. Folding letterpress table. [10] (of [14]), 124 pages, including the 2-leaf Description of Geometry in the preliminaries; lacks the preliminaries A2.3 and the 2 ad leaves at end. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 179x111 mm, contemporary panelled calf gilt, joints rubbed, surface imperfections on covers; contents generally clean apart from soiling on preliminaries in first work; 1/4 morocco slipcase and cloth sleeve. Signatures of H. Slingesby dated Badminton 1693 and Worcester dated 1695; armorial bookplate dated 1705 of Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, on front pastedown; bookplates of Raymond Riling and Richard Allan Johnson, U.S.M.A., inside cloth sleeve. London: W. Godbid for Nathaniel Brooke, 1673; A. G. and J. P. for Obadiah Blagrave, 1683

Additional Details

first edition of the first work and second edition in English of the second. Wing M2576, M2726; ESTC R268, R37646.