[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Muller's "Attack and Defence of Fortify'd Places..." London: 1747

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(MILITARY) Muller, John. THE ATTACK AND DEFENCE OF FORTIFY'D PLACES. In Three Parts. Containing, I. Preparations for, and Operations of an Attack, from the Beginning to the End, Digested in a Regular and Easy Manner. II. Preparations, and Defence of Every Part of a Fortification, With Everything Necessary for a Good Defence. III. A Treatise of Mines, Explaining the Manner of Making and Loading Them... Deduced from a New Theory. For the Use of the Royal Academy at Woolwich. Illustrated by About Thirty Large Copper Plates. London: J. Millan. 1747. First edition. xv,(5),261pp. Plus (3)pp. ads.. Illus. with 25 copper-engraved plates (mostly folding), complete. Orig. calf, worn, plainly rebacked some time ago, and with a modern black calf spine label. Inner hinges reinforced with linen binder's tape. Cont. bookplates on front pastedown, including one from "Royal Artillery Library, Woolwich."	$450.00 (trade discount allowed)


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