Main entry:

Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679.

Title & Author:

Modern fortification, or, Elements of military architecture : practised and designed by the latest and most experienced ingeneers of this last age, Italian, French, Dutch, and English. And the manner of defending and besieging forts and places. With the use of a joynt-ruler or sector, for the speedy description of any fortification / by Sir Jonas Moore ...

Publication:

London : Printed by W. Godbid, for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1673.

Description:

[16], 127, [1] p., [9] folded leaves of plates ; 18 cm.

Notes:
First edition.
Plates numbered I-X, numbers III-IIII on one leaf.
Signatures: A-I€ (A?, frontispiece; E? incorrectly signed E?).
Page 10 incorrectly numbered 14.
Title within double line border.
Signatures: A-I€ (AÑ, frontispiece; EÓ incorrectly signed EÕ)
Wing M2576
Library copy: arnorial bookplate of "John, Marques of Tueeddale, Earle of Gifford, Viscount Walden, Lord Hay of Yester &c".

Subject:

Fortification Early works to 1800.
Fortification.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Elements of military architecture.
Provenance. Tweedale, John Hay, Marquis of, 1626?-1697. Bookplate.
Bookplates. Tweedale, John Hay, Marquis of, 1626?-1697.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage y 25279
Call No.: UG400 .M6 1673
Status: Available