Les fortifications du chevalier Antoine de Ville
Subtitle: contenans la maniere de fortifier toute sorte de places ... : avec l'ataque et les moyens de prendre les places ... : plus la defense ...
Contributors: David, Jérôme, approximately 1605-approximately 1670; Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652 or 1653
Publisher: Chez Irenee Barlet ...
Published: 1628
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Fortification; Early works to 1800; Siege warfare
Other titles: Fortifications, contenans la maniere de fortifier toute sorte de places; Fortifications dv chevalier Antoine de Ville, contenans la maniere de fortifier toute sorte de places
Notes: Added etched t.p. with date 1629, altered from 1628, and 53 numbered etched ill. by Deville. Ten of the ill. are double page, the rest full page. Port. of author by Jérôme David after Artemisia Gentileschi, p. [12] of preliminaries. Woodcut arms on t.p. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Includes index.

Binding: old (but not original) goatskin, spine tooled in gilt with brief author & title on red label, edges of boards gilt tooled, page edges red.

19th-century bookplate of Marqués de la Torrecilla by Stern (Paris). Ownership inscription of Manuel de Benavides, dated: año de [1]664.