Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 398

Price Realized: $ 156
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
VILLE, ANTOINE DE. De la Charge des Gouverneurs des Places . . . Derniere Edition. 7 engraved plates of fortifications. [8] (of [10]), 755, [21] pages; lacks engraved additional title. Small 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends damaged, joints partly cracked, cover corners worn through; contents browned, some light marginal dampstaining, worming in lower inner corners generally not impairing legibility, portion of outer margin torn out of 2L1 affecting sidenotes, early owner's scrawls on endpapers. Paris: Robert de Nain, 1656

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Treatise on military architecture first published in 1639. Cockle 830 note.