Cellarius - Architectura Militaris - 1645

Christoph Cellarius

Architectura Militaris, or Fundamental Instruction of the Present Day, as well in the Netherlands.

Volume Atlas

Amsterdam - 1645 -
Jodocus Janssonius

(13), (90) with illustrated plates.
In large folio - 35 × 24 cm.

A complete manual on fortress construction... In addition to the fortress plans, the plates showing the bridges and the tools are particularly noteworthy.
JAHNS 1125
JORDAN 660
SCHUTTLE 317

Excellent specimen of the only related atlas.
to the work of Cellarius 'Architectura Militaris'.
Complete with all 90 double-page plates (3 plates folded several times) and of the
13 descriptive double-page plates, placed at the beginning of the atlas.

With a suggestive handwritten ex libris contemporaneous with the recto of the first descriptive card bearing
Signed on Friday, 7 December 1645, as well as the full signature (see photo).

The atlas contains 90 beautiful double-page plates, or folded several times, all labeled from A to XXXX, and perfectly inked, which depict fortifications, star forts, walls, defensive trenches, galleries, chevaux-de-frise, instructions for constructing fortifications, the mathematical science of designing impregnable city walls, defense systems in the Netherlands and elsewhere, and much more.

Christoph Cellarius (1638/1707), renowned cartographer, philologist, and German scholar of the seventeenth century, is best known for his star atlas.
However, it was his collection of illustrations depicting military architecture that guaranteed him lasting success.

Excellent contemporary binding in full stiff parchment, with boards framed by a triple filleted border blind-engraved, in addition to six double fillets engraved on the spine, corresponding to the cords.
With initials, formerly manuscripts, of probable archival provenance.
Some pinpoint worm-eaten traces
Closure straps, a bit worn, in green silk.

All the boards are rather fresh and well preserved.
Very small restorations with paper insertions at the bottom corner of QQ and GGG.
Small tears along the closing folds of the HH folded board.
Tear (without gaps) at the central crease of
III (see photo) and identical to the KKK.
Original guards preserved.

Good copy, complete and original in every respect (the atlas alone).
COLLATED. COMPLETE