Nieuwe vesting-bouw, ... vermeerdert door Johan Jacob Wertmuller. ... Tweeden druk.Dordrecht, Christoffel der Moey, 1745. 8vo. With an engraved half-title, 18 folding engraved plates and letterpress tables. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine.

Engraved half-title + [16], 205, [3] pp. + plates.First and only Dutch edition (very rare second and last issue) of a great classic of French fortification by Blaise François Pagan (1604-1665), first published in French in 1645 and here based on the greatly revised and expanded German edition by Johan Jacob Wertmüller, published in 1684. Pagan was a major influence on Vauban, but Vauban's advances in the 1670s rendered the older manual out of date. Wertmüller's 1684 Frankfurt edition brought it up to date, giving it new life for seventy years. The present edition, the last in any language, was first published by Joan Block in The Hague in 1738 and is here reissued with a cancel title-page but with the same engraved half-title, though the title-page calls it a second edition. We have located only one other copy of the 1745 issue, at Leiden University Library.With manuscript notes on the half-title and title-page. With marginal water stains at the lower outside corner and many plates and text quires somewhat browned or foxed, but otherwise in good condition. Binding rubbed, and worn at the hinges. Second copy located of the second issue of the first and only Dutch edition of a classic fortification manual that remained in use for a century.l Jähns II, 129 note (no location); Jordan 2777 (citing Jähns: no location); KVK & WorldCat (1 copy); STCN (same copy).