VIRGIN, JEAN BERNARD. La défense des places

mise en equilibre avec les attaques savants et furieuses d'aujourd'hui:... Stockholm (Pierre Hesselberg) 1781.

4:o. (8), (I)-XIV, (2), (1)-424, (2) pp. 14 folding engraved plates (all). Uncut in contemporary somewhat worn grey wrappers, blank spotted spine, damages at head and foot.

Johan Bernard Virgin (1705-1783), Swedisj fortification officer, for many years head of the Swedish fortification.
This is the first edition of the book, also translated into German 1820.