“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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“THERE IS NO QUESTION TODAY MORE UNSETTLED IN AMERICAN POLITICS THAN THE NEGRO QUESTION”
FORTUNE, T. Thomas. Black and White. New York, 1885.
Second edition of this treatise on the future of labor and interracial relations in the South by a major African American journalist and public intellectual. $650.
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WYNN BULLOCK’S BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS, SIGNED BY HIM
BULLOCK, Wynn. Wynn Bullock. San Francisco, 1971.
First edition, signed by Wynn Bullock on the title page. $350.
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