MANESSON MALLET, Alain. - Lot 78

MANESSON MALLET, Alain. Den Arbeid van Mars, or Nieuwe Vesting-Bouw. Amsterdam, Janssonius Waesberge; Jacob van Meurs, 1672. 3 parts in one large 12mo volume, (12) leaves, including title page, frontispiece, and portrait, 247-(4) pp.; 12 ff., including title page and frontispiece, 272 pp.; (8) ff., 271 pp., 294 (out of 295) large in-text figures engraved in black on copper. Contemporary speckled and polished havana calfskin, ribbed spine, gilt title, decorated panels (binding rubbed, joints split, marginal defects including some foxing, water stains, or small losses at the corners; a tear affecting a map on p. 31 of the first part; half of the map on p. 93 is missing; pp. 227–228 of vol. 2 are missing). First Dutch edition. The illustrations consist of a frontispiece title page for each part, a portrait, and more than 294 full-page black copper engravings by Romeyn de Hooghe, including numerous maps of fortified cities. The Work of Mars, or the Construction of New Fortifications. Provenance: Ex-libris D. Laport. POLIORCETICS. MILITARIA.