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An Introduction to the art of fortification, containing draughts of all the common works used in military architecture, and of the machines and utensils necessary either in attacks or defences : also a military dictionary, wherein the said works and machines are not only more fully described, but all other technical terms and phrases made use of in the science of war are distictly [sic] explained.
- Title
- An Introduction to the art of fortification, containing draughts of all the common works used in military architecture, and of the machines and utensils necessary either in attacks or defences : also a military dictionary, wherein the said works and machines are not only more fully described, but all other technical terms and phrases made use of in the science of war are distictly [sic] explained.
- Publication
- London : Printed for and sold by John Brindley, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the Feathers in New Bond Street, 1745.
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- Description
- [114] p., 3 folding leaves of plates : ill.; 19 cm. (8vo)
- Subject
- Fortification > Early works to 1800
- Fortification > Dictionaries
- Military architecture > Early works to 1800
- Military architecture > Dictionaries
- Defensive (Military science) > Early works to 1800
- Offensive (Military science) > Early works to 1800
- Military art and science > Early works to 1800
- Military art and science > Dictionaries
- Note
- Signatures: a-o⁴ p² [-p2].
- A separate issue of the title appended to The theatre of the present war in the Netherlands and upon the Rhine (London : J. Brindley, 1745).
- Call Number
- VWK (Introduction to the art of fortification)
- OCLC
- 22505137
- Title
- An Introduction to the art of fortification, containing draughts of all the common works used in military architecture, and of the machines and utensils necessary either in attacks or defences : also a military dictionary, wherein the said works and machines are not only more fully described, but all other technical terms and phrases made use of in the science of war are distictly [sic] explained.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for and sold by John Brindley, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the Feathers in New Bond Street, 1745.
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- Research Call Number
- VWK (Introduction to the art of fortification)