Les fortifications du comte de Pagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pagan, Blaise François de, comte de Merveilles, 1604-1665.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Fortification--France--Early works to 1800.

Fortification.

Military architecture.

France.

Military architecture--France--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science--France--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 116 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 34 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Cardin Besogne ..., 1645.

Notes:

Engraved title vignette (arms of Pagan).

Engraved portrait of the author by Jean Patigny, sculptor and Henri Gascar, designer, dated 1656.

Signatures: [pi]² *-**² A⁴ B-2E² [2F]².

Influence on Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban , whose earliest forts were entirely based on Pagan's designs, but with minor improvements and adaptations to differences in terrain.--Cf. Dictionary of scientific biography, XIII, p. 592.

OCLC:

34403484