“WHATEVER HE BESIEGED, FELL; WHATEVER HE DEFENDED, HELD”
VAUBAN, [Sébastien le Prestre de]. De l"Attaque et de la Defense des Places. Le Have [The Hague], 1737, 1742. Two volumes in one.
First editions of Vauban’s massive posthumous two-volume De l’Attaque et de la la Défense des Places, the “standard work for students of fortifications and siegecraft until the second half of the 19th century,” with 45 splendid engraved plates (including 25 folding), by this powerfully influential military strategist whose legacy was so esteemed by Napoleon that he ordered Vauban’s heart be placed under the dome of the Invalides in Paris. $2800.
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LARGE ENGRAVED MILITARY COMMISSION, 1866,
WITH STAMPED SIGNATURES OF JOHNSON AND STANTON
JOHNSON, Andrew and STANTON, Edwin. Document signed (stamped signatures). Washington, D.C. July 17, 1866.
Fine military commission, fully engraved on vellum and finished in manuscript, with stamped signatures of President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. $1800.
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“FEW DIALECT POETS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN EQUAL MEASURE”
DRUMMOND, William Henry. The Habitant and Other Poems. New York and London, 1901.
Autograph Edition, number 335 of 1000 copies signed by the author, in publisher’s morocco-gilt. $450.
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