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RARE FIRST EDITION on fortifications, artillery, military strategy, mathematics, geometry and architecture by Antoine de Ville or Deville (1596-1656), was a French military engineer, mathematical, and field marshal. 55 Beautiful detailed illustrations, 10 double-page illustrations height 355 mm x width 472 mm and 45 full-page illustrations height 355 mm x width 258 mm, engraved and signed by the author himself. Beautiful portrait of the author signed by the famous Caravaggio school painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) and engraved by Jérôme David (1605-1670) a French engraver who worked mostly in Rome. One of the rarest 17th century French fortification books, illustrated with a fine set of illustrations. De Ville was one of the earliest military writers to discuss the construction and effects of mines in his works on fortification. His book was one of the references for the French school of fortifications developed by Blaise François Pagan (1603-1665) and Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707). Only the second edition is available for sale at US$4,200.00, here is the rare first edition at a fraction of that price.

The iconography of the "Les Fortifications" is exceptional. The book opens with an architectural frontispiece of the author representing allegories of the engineer/ingeniously and the worker/effort entitled "Ingenio" and "Labore", followed by his portrait engraved by Jérôme David, which reproduces the (inverted) composition of the painting by Artemisia Gentileschi. The work is composed of three books respectively devoted to the construction of attack and defense of places. The first is conventionally divided between regular and irregular fortification and completed by considerations on field forts, "small places". The emphasis is on regular fortification and the definition of the vocabulary of the different elements of bastioned fortification, still imperfectly mastered at the beginning of the 17th century. De Ville, as an experienced practitioner, continually justifies his biases by citing examples from his many experiences in France during his campaigns against the Protestants (Montauban, La Rochelle, Clérac) and abroad (Flessing and Nijmegen in the Netherlands, Almeida Fortress in Portugal, Torino, Civitavecchia, Venezia and Palmanova in Italy). The second book, still tainted by numerous ancient examples (Hannibal, Caesar, Polybius, Vegetius), explores in detail the various means of attacking places by cunning, surprise and ultimately force. The third deals with the defense of the same places according to the different attacks described in the second book, each of which must be proportional to the number of inhabitants and soldiers residing there. The author provides a compendium of the various modern fortification systems, because he prefers to present a wide variety of solutions to satisfy all tastes. The novelty of his approach lies in the importance he attaches to advanced works and the depth echeloning of the outer works of strongholds, precisely defining the characteristics of ravelins and hornworks. These definitions can be seen as the beginnings of the complex sprawl of outer works that would be implemented during the second half of the century. The work is also enriched with a descriptive vocabulary of the construction elements and technical terms. A fine draughtsman and experienced engraver, Antoine De Ville notes in his introduction that the plates of his work, presented in full and double-page spreads, are "cut by his hand" and that he "used prospective to accustom himself to taking the plan of places." This sophisticated iconography, juxtaposing elements of fortifications with rural landscapes, views of medieval towns and ancient ruins, makes the treatise a work dedicated to a wide audience made up of both print lovers and practitioners. Their Italian sources and the influence of Jacques Callot have also been studied in detail by Jean-François Pernot (1978). Unlike the contemporary work of Blaise François Pagan published in 1640, from which Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban admitted to having drawn inspiration to modernize the principles of fortification "à la moderne", it is not through the novelty of the serf theories that Deville's work prevails but rather through his concern for rationalizing the art of war. Giving great importance to the economy of the siege, to military logistics and to the order of attacks and defense, his writings will be a major source of inspiration for Vauban's work. All the 55 illustrations are well engraved, detailed and in good conditions.

TITLE/DESCRIPTION: Les Fortifications du chevalier Antoine de Ville, contenans la manière de fortifier toute sorte de places...(The Fortifications of the Knight Antoine de Ville, containing the manner of fortifying all kinds of places…Published in Lyon, by Irénée Barlet, 1628-1629 (as usual, the frontispiece has been altered with the addition of a 1 compared to the title date). In-folio size height 355 mm x width 258 mm 13.9 by 10.2 inches. Pages [12] - 441 - [12]. 55 Beautiful detailed illustrations, 10 double-page illustrations height 355 mm x width 472 mm and 45 full-page illustrations height 355 mm x width 258 mm, engraved and signed by the author himself. Antique parchment binding in good condition with few traces of wear, and small defects, title label on the spine. Detailed illustrations and well-printed text, paper with some scattered water stains here and there, especially in the first 30-40 pages, some small tears in the white margins, but of no importance and without loss of text or illustrations, which are intact. RARE FIRST EDITION AND COMPLETE.

LITERATURE/REFERENCES: World Cat OCLC: 1157113260; USTC 6904036 (listing 3 copies, in Bordeaux, Lyon and Grenoble); Cockle 831 (citing editions of 1640 and 1672 only); ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, RAR 786 (1666 edition); H. Vérin, « Galilée et Antoine de Ville : un courrier sur l’idée de matière », J. Montesinos & Carlos Solis (éd.), Largo Campo di Philosophare, Eurosymposium Galileo, Madrid, Orotavia 2001, p. 307-322; M. D. Pollak, Military Architecture Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern European City : A Checklist of Treatises on Fortification in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1992, n° 22; Y. Bruant, « Les traités d’architecture militaire français à la fin du XVI siècle et au début du XVII siècle », J. Guillaume (éd.), Les traités d’architecture de la Renaissance, Paris, Picard, 1988, p. 477-484; B. Colson, L’art de la guerre de Machiavel à Clauzewitz, Namur, Presses universitaires de Namur, 2002, p. 69-72; J.-F. Pernot, « L’école française de fortifications », I. Warmoes & V. Sanger (éd.), Vauban Bâtisseur du Roi-Soleil, Paris, Somogy, 2007, p. 55-61 et notice 26 par V. Sanger, p. 158.

AUTHOR: Antoine de Ville or Deville (1596-1656) was a military engineer born in Toulouse, owes his fame to his work entitled "Les Fortifications", the first edition of which appeared in Lyon in 1628, when he was thirty-two years old. Both a fine mathematician and a man of the field, Antoine Deville was probably educated at the Jesuit college in Toulouse. He began his military career very early by participating in the various campaigns led against the Protestants during the decade 1620-30. Enlisted as a light horseman at the siege of the city of Montauban in 1621, he took part in the siege of La Rochelle in 1624 and then in the campaigns led against the Huguenots in the Southwest and in the south of the Massif Central. In 1626 he continued his career in the Netherlands in the battalions of the Duke of Savoy Charles Emmanuel I; he distinguished himself by obtaining the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus. Then taking advantage of a short period of freedom, he made a trip to Italy, notably to Rome and the Kingdom of Naples during which he gathered the documentation necessary for the publication of his work on fortifications. It was during this trip that Artemisia Gentileschi painted in Rome the portrait of the military engineer, then just twenty-seven years old. Antoine Deville then enlisted in Italy in the service of the Republic of Venice, from 1630 to 1635. This episode is known from the brief correspondence he had in 1633 with Galileo about his Discourse Concerning Two New Sciences that the latter was about to publish. At that time De Ville was very busy in Italy due to his numerous inspection missions in Istria, Dalmatia, Slavonia, on the borders of the Papal States, on the Po, and his restoration work on the fortifications of Mantua and Bergamo. It is probably from this period that his very precise survey of the Palazzo Te in Mantua dates (the handwritten plan is now preserved in the library of the Historical Service of the Army in Vincennes). Nevertheless, Deville took advantage of his visit to the fortifications of the port of Pula in Istria (now Croatia), then under Venetian rule, to publish in Venice in 1633 a text in Latin entitled Descriptio portus et urbis Polæ. He also published in the same year a learned pamphlet in Latin, Pyctomachia veneta, seu pugnorum certamen venetum, in which he discusses the ancient Venetian tradition of fights and pugilisms organized annually in each district of the city. These two texts were fully reproduced in 1722 in the Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiæ published in Amsterdam by Peter van de Haa. Back in France in 1635, probably recalled by Richelieu to whom he dedicated his later publications, Antoine De Ville took part in the defense of Corbie, then in the siege of Hesdin, after which he was appointed field marshal in 1639. On this occasion, he published two long descriptions of these sieges, respectively entitled Obsidio Corbiensis and The Siege of Hesdin. That same year, his last publication, De la charge de gouverneurs des places, appeared, which, although devoted to military logistics, was accompanied by an abridged account of fortification.

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