Pratique de la guerre
Subtitle: contenant l'vsage de l'artillerie, bombes et mortiers, feux artificiels & petards, sappes & mines, ponts & pontons, tranchées & trauaux, auec l'ordre des assauts aux breches : ensemble vn traité des feux de joye
By: par le Sieur Malthus
Contributors: Picart, Jacques, active 1606-1644; Picard, Jacques, active 1658-1668; Clousier, Gervais, -1681
Publisher: Chez Geruais Clousier ...
Published: 1650
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Artillery; Early works to 1800; Siege warfare; Military fireworks; Fireworks
Other titles: Pratiqve de la gverre :
Notes: First published Paris (I. Guillemot), 1646. See BN.

Engraved frontispiece with arms of Charles de la Porte, Seigneur de la Melleraye, to whom the work is dedicated. Full-page engraved ill. Those on p. 77 and plate facing p. 89 signed by Jacques Picart, either father or son, both of whom worked in Paris; see Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon and Thieme-Becker.

Signatures: ã⁴ A-2N⁴.

Added title-page engraved, also plates and illus.

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