Author: [DEIDIER, Abbé.]
Title: Le parfait ingenieur françois, ou La fortification offensive et défensive contenant la construction, l'attaque et la défense des places réguliers & irréguliers, selon les méthodes de mrs. de Vauban, Coëhorn, Pagan, de Ville, & des autres qui ont écrit sur cette science.
Description: Amsterdam, Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1734 (=Paris?). In-4. [x], 346, [2] pp. With engraved title-page by Le Pautre after Santer and 42 folding plates (3 and 4 on one leaf). Calf, gilt spine (binding sl.worn, spine beginning to split; outer margin few pages sl.water stained, but over all good copy) ¶Abbé Deidier (1696-1746) published several mathemathical works. He was i.a. professor of artillery at the military school in La Fère. ¶Except for the preliminary quire and A1 - and of course the absence of 'Approbation en Privileges du roy' - the typesetting and fingerprint are identical to those of the Paris edition of 1736.

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