Lot 3654: Meynier, Honorat de ( c . 1570-1638). , Les nouvelles inventions de fortifier les places: contre la puissance d'assaillir par traverses, galleries, mines, canons & autres machines de guerre. Paris: Nicolas Rousset & Julien Jacquin, 1626 ,

B., S. Recueil de plusieurs desseings de fortifications et de machines, tant pour tracer toutes sortes de forteresses, avec leurs parties tant exterieures qu'interieures: ensemble la façon de les attaquer & deffendre, comme aussi de quelques machines servant à icelles. Paris: Melchior Tavernier, 1631 , ff. [2], illustration : 4 double-page engraved plates, 15 smaller engravings on 4 double-page leaves, both letterpress leaves rebacked, all plates cut out and remounted, one plate shaved at foot 2 works in one volume, folio (365 x 243mm.), binding : eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, speckled edges, binding rubbed

1st work: cf. Cockle 835 (German translation of 1642)

"APerc:", early inscription on title-page of first work

De Meynier was a military engineer during the Wars of Religion, and after retiring in 1608, he wrote many works of a military and literary nature. For another work by him, see Macclesfield Science I-O, lot 1380 (on geometry). The second work is rare; there is a copy in the British Library, but it is not listed in BL STC French XVIIc.