VILLE, ANTOINE DE. Les Fortifications du Chevalier Antoine de Ville. 53 etched or engraved plates, including 10 double-page. [12], 441, [13] pages, including etched additional title and portrait. Folio, later 19th-century 1/2 vellum, shelf label removed from spine; contents heavily browned, generally weak impressions of the illustrations, additional title mounted, minor repair on letterpress title verso, portrait crudely hand-tinted, small crudely repaired abrasion hole or holes in center of most plates, probably from an attempt to obliterate a stamp on the verso. sold as is. Lyon: Philippe Borde, 1640