Bagan

1745 · I479UIWA9D18 — Dordrecht 1745. 8vo. Christoffel der Moey 18th-century calf sewn on 5 cords gold-tooled spine with black label in second compartment red sprinkled edges green ribbon marker. With an engraved half-title a decorated cartouche with a Medusa head and military building and surveying attributes letterpress title-page with a woodcut angel device 18 folding engraved plates numbered I-XVIII most showing fortification plans woodcut decorated initials 2 series and letterpress tables. Set in roman and italic types. Engraved half-title 16 205 3 pp. plates. First and only Dutch edition very rare second and last issue of a great classic of French fortification by Blaise François Pagan 1604-1665 first published in French in 1645 and here based on the greatly revised and expanded German edition by Johan Jacob Wertmüller published in 1684. Pagan was a major influence on Vauban but Vauban's advances in the 1670s rendered the older manual out of date. Wertmüller's 1684 Frankfurt edition brought it up to date giving it new life for seventy years. The present edition the last in any language was first published by Joan Block in The Hague in 1738 and is here reissued with a cancel title-page but with the same engraved half-title though the title-page calls it a second edition. We have located only one other copy of the 1745 issue at Leiden University Library.With manuscript notes on the half-title and title-page. With marginal water stains at the lower outside corner and many plates and text quires somewhat browned or foxed but otherwise in good condition. Binding rubbed and worn at the hinges. Second copy located of the second issue of the first and only Dutch edition of a classic fortification manual that remained in use for a century.l Jähns II 129 note no location; Jordan 2777 citing Jähns: no location; KVK & WorldCat 1 copy; STCN same copy. unknown