Plan D'un Ouvrage Couronné. [Plan of a crowned work.]
Sub-Title
Ces sortes d'ouvrages servent à courir une grande partie faible d'une ville, ou à enfermer quelques Faubourgs.
[These kinds of works serve to cover a large, weak part of a city's fortification or to enclose some suburbs.]
[These kinds of works serve to cover a large, weak part of a city's fortification or to enclose some suburbs.]
Subject
Works serve to cover a large, weak part of a city or to enclose some suburbs. Vauban was military engineer during the reign of Louis XIV. Theoretical French military plans for equipment, strategies, and offensive and defensive fortifications on different terrains.
Date
1675 (historical)
Mapmaker
Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de
Publisher
Anselin
Place of Publication
Paris
Accession Number
1983.047.031
Condition
Fair-Good. Surface dirt, slight staining.
Curatorial Notes
Other plates, including those from Volume 1, "Attaque des Places," located 1983.047.001-42.
Notes
Plate 4 from Vauban's atlas, "D'Attaque et de la défense des places, " Vol. 2, "Défense des Places" published 1828-29.
Size
13 3/4 x 18 3/4
Storage
c03d10