Fortification, or, Architecture military : unfolding the principal mysteries thereof, in the resolution of sundry questions and problems / by Richard Norwood ...
1694
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Title
Fortification, or, Architecture military : unfolding the principal mysteries thereof, in the resolution of sundry questions and problems / by Richard Norwood ...
Created/published
London : Printed for Richard Mount, at the Postern, on Tower-Hill, 1694.
Description
[8], 150, [1] p., [3] folded plates : ill., plans
Associated name
Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675, author.
Note
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Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), N1353A
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- London.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271694 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "NORWOOD, RICHARD Fortification: or, Architecture military. London: printed for Richard Mount, 1694 4to (190 x 140mm.), one folding woodcut plate, 2 folding tables, woodcut illustrations, errata leaf at end, first leaf blank, contemporary calf, damp-stained, fore-edge of title slightly cut down, spine worn This is the second edition of the first full-scale work to be written on fortification in English. First published in 1639 (see lot 80), this second edition is rare, ESTC listing just three copies, and no copies have appeared at auction for over forty years. LITERATURE: ESTC R202018; cf. Cockle 145 (first edition) PROVENANCE: The Gift of Mr. Thomas Heatley, Citizen and Iron-monger of London, to the Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, Anno Dom. 1700, large printed book label" Ordered from: Christopher Edwards, D9269, 2019-11-19 at Sotheby's Auction "The Cottesloe Military Library", November 19, 2019, Lot 345
Folger accession
271694