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STEVIN, Simon (1548-1620). Castramentatio, dat is legermeting. -Nieuwe maniere van sterctebov, door spilsluysen. Rotterdam: Jan van Waesberghe, 1617.
2o (305 x 198 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title-pages, allegorical engraving incorporating the arms of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, folding woodcut diagram, numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text. (Lacks portrait of the Prince of Orange, small gouge penetrating inner margins of gatherings D and E affecting some letters, some minor browning, a few marginal stains.) Modern vellum over boards (boards somewhat bowed).
FIRST EDITION. The first part of this work is devoted to the art of laying out a military camp, or castramentation, with particular regard to the habits and needs of the Prince of Orange. The second part is devoted to the construction of and defensive use of sluices in fortifications. "His treatise was one of the earliest on the subject, and contained the very first explanation of their use for tactical purposes, that is, for flooding the country and thus causing it to become inaccessible to the enemy" (Sarton). Cockle 703; Sarton, "Simon Stevin of Bruges," In: Isis 21 (1934), pp. 241-303; Norman 2018.
2o (305 x 198 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title-pages, allegorical engraving incorporating the arms of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, folding woodcut diagram, numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text. (Lacks portrait of the Prince of Orange, small gouge penetrating inner margins of gatherings D and E affecting some letters, some minor browning, a few marginal stains.) Modern vellum over boards (boards somewhat bowed).
FIRST EDITION. The first part of this work is devoted to the art of laying out a military camp, or castramentation, with particular regard to the habits and needs of the Prince of Orange. The second part is devoted to the construction of and defensive use of sluices in fortifications. "His treatise was one of the earliest on the subject, and contained the very first explanation of their use for tactical purposes, that is, for flooding the country and thus causing it to become inaccessible to the enemy" (Sarton). Cockle 703; Sarton, "Simon Stevin of Bruges," In: Isis 21 (1934), pp. 241-303; Norman 2018.