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Creator:
Fer, Nicolas de, 1646–1720
Title(s):
Introduction a la fortification : dediée a Monseigneur le duc de Bourgogne / par son tres humble seruiteur De Fer.
Additional Title(s):
Forces de l'Europe. 1ère partie
Published/Created:
A Paris : Chez l'autheur dans l'Isle du Palais, sur le quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale, [1690]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([25] leaves) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G1793 .F47 1690
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ.
Notes:
The first of eight installments of an atlas on fortification eventually gathered and issued together as one volume in 1695 under title: Les forces de l'Europe, ou, Description des principales villes avec leurs fortifications. See: Pastoureau Fer IX.
Maps engraved by H. van Loon.
Publication date from Pastoureau; some plates dated 1690.
Engraved throughout, including textual leaves.
Pastoureau, M. Atlas français, XVIe-XVIIe siècles, entry Fer IX A(a)
BAC G1793 .F47 1690: Bound in full brown calf; speckled. Full-sheet leaves are folded at the inner margin.
Subject Terms:
Europe -- Defenses -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Europe -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Fortification -- Europe -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Atlases.
Etchings.
Contributors:
Loon, H. v. (Herman van), engraver.
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