79816 Nuremburg, Johann Ziegers, 1683. Small folio, two volumes bound as one, [iv], 28 pages plus an engraved pictorial title page and 7 large folding plates and [iv], 28 plates plus an engraved pictorial title page and 8 large folding plates (with all the folding plates mounted near the right-hand edge of blank leaves so that they can be referred to at the same time as the relevant text). Recent antique-style quarter leather and very early marbled papered boards (rubbed and worn at the extremities but only to an agreeable extent); trifling signs of use and age, with some early pencilling on the endpapers (including a sketch of a castle on the front flyleaf); a very good copy. An early and well-illustrated work on military architecture and fortifications. $4300.00AUD
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