SURIREY DE SAINT REMY.

Memoires D'Artillerie, ou il est Traité des Mortiers, Petards, Arquebuses à Croc, Musquetes, Fusils, &c. & de ce qui peut servir à l'execution & au service de toutes ces armes; des Bombes, Carcasses, Grenades &c. De la fonte des Pieces, de la Fabrication du Salpestre & de la Poudre; des Ponts, des Mines, des Charettes & Chariots; des Chevaux, & generalment de tout ce qui depend de l'Artillerie tant per Mer que per Terre. 2 Vols.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1702. 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Repairs to spineends. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece. (18),348;(6),386,(2) pp. With 185 (of 186 ??) engraved plates, some double-page, some folding and folding tables. A few plates in volume I strenghtened in margin, some of the larger folded plates sternghtened on verso. Frontispiece and title-page with a small brownspot on foot. Upper corner on the 2 last leaves gone and repaired with some loss of letters. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper.

The rare second edition of this important encyclopedic work in all branches of military craftmanship and construction relating to artillery. Due to its character as a synthesis of everything pertaining to artillery and military subjects, the work became highly influential and very widely spread. It thus went through three editions within the first 50 years, the first being the only 17th century edition. The numerous illustrations depict all thinkable parts of military science, including canons, gunpowder, mines etc.

Rumpf,1145; not in Jordan; not in Brunet (only an edition from 1745). - Slooos, Warfare and the Age of printing, 7036 (having only 170 plates).

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