Modelles, artifices de fev, et divers instrvmẽs de gverre
Subtitle: avec les moyẽs de s'en prevaloir : pour assieger, battre, surprendre, et deffendre toutes places : vtiles et necessaires a touvs cevx qvi fond profession des armes
By: par Ioseph Boillot langrois
Publisher: Chez Quentin Mareschal ...
Published: 1598
Place of publication: A Chavmo[n]t en Bassig[ny]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Military fireworks; Early works to 1800; Artillery; Siege warfare
Other titles: Modelles, artifices de feu, et divers instruments de guerre
Notes: Engraved t.p. with architectural border. The etched ill. are mostly signed: J. Boillot.

Nine pages are blank except for head- and footlines. They were perhaps intended for additional illustrations, and indeed several have platemarks (without images).

In Library's copy the blank pages 154, 174, 194 have pencil sketches derived from ill. on the leaf immediately following.

Binding: marbled sheepskin. Backstrip (repaired) is gold tooled, with title on label: INVENT- / IONS / SERVANS / POUR / LA GUER. The edges red.

At upper left corner of front pastedown is calligraphic label of Theodore Besterman, signed in the plate P.S. At lower left corner of front free endpaper verso is label: Kenney Collection.