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THE MANER OF FORTIFICACION OF CITIES: TOWNES: CASTELLES AND OTHER PLACES
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Author: Robert Corneweyle
Publisher: Gregg International
Year published: 1972
Pagination: 45pp, + 11 plates
Condition: very good in blue boards.
A facsimile of the 1559 manuscript produced as a gift to the then Master-General of the Ordnance, Ambrose Dudley. He was an experienced soldier who had fought with conspicous bravery at the siege of St Quentin in 1557. It was thus fitting that the first English treatise on the art of the new fortification based on the angle bastion in the Italian manner, should be dedicated to him. The work is linked by translation to Zanchi's Del modo di fortificar le Citta and de la Treille's La maniere de fortifer villes chasteaux et faire autres lieux fortz.