BARDET DE VILLENEUVE (P.-P.-A.). Lot n° 17

Traité de l'attaque des places, in which the most advantageous method for safely and quickly taking places is taught in a short and easy manner. With the necessary remarks on the methods of Monsieur de Vauban and other masters. At The Hague, Chez Jean Van Duren, 1742, small in-8, engraved front, pl. bradel blue cardboard (modern binding). Some foxing. A good copy. Complete with 24 folding plates, preceded by a beautiful frontispiece engraved by I. Bescet. This treatise, devoted to the attack of the places, forms the volume IX of the Course of the military science, for the use of the infantry, the cavalry, the artillery, the engineers and the navy, published between 1740 and 1757. Very detailed, Bardet's work attempts to study all the different types of circumvallations and the placement of batteries, the approach and the art of passing ditches, according to the types of bastioning and irregular fortifications.