[Fortifications] Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places. Par monsieur Blondel.

Paris, at the author and N. Langlois, 1683, (8),68,(8) p., with engraved frontispiece and 12 plates (10x double-page, 8x signed by [Jean Baptiste] Bröebes), contemporary marbled calf with ribbed and gilt back, 4to.

Good copy with a few minor defects. With old owner's name "F. van Hoûtte" in pen and with small bookplate of P.P.C. Lammens to inside front board. This fine and large library was sold at auction in Ghent from 1839, our copy was given number 2693 in the third part of the catalogue (1840). The rare first edition.