TREATISE ON FORTRESSES - COPY OF FAMOUS PHYSICIAN

Maigret, Philippe: Traité de la sureté et conservation des états, par le moyen des forteresses. A Paris, chez Estienne Billiot 1725.

Copy from the library of the celebrated French physician Joseph Lieutaud, of the first edition of this treatise "On the security and conservation of states by means of fortresses". It includes chapters on fortresses' utility and necessity, the right number to have (with regard also to the nature of the people, their religion, zeal for the government etc.), conditions which make them advantageous or disadvantageous, their grandeur, and issues regarding their design and construction.

Lieutaud (1703-1780) was variously paediatrician to the court of Louis XV and personal physician to Louis XVI. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1739.

Details

First edition. 12mo., pp. [10] 444 (= 446) [8]. Lacking initial blank. Light browning, bound in later 18th-cent. tree sheep, spine gilt, red morocco gilt label, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, a.e.r., rubbing, touch of wear to corners and slight crack to bottom of top joint. F.f.e.p. recto with inscription in purple ink 'Bibliothèque de Waly, 23 juillet 1901', inscription on front pastedown, bottom of p. 1 with signature 'Lieutaud' (Joseph Lieutaud).

OCLC (2009) shows copies outside European mainland at BL and Newberry.