Viollet Le Duc E Translated by Benjamin Bucknall (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding has been professionally repaired and the spine re-backed with some staining. Rubbing to corner tips, water stain on frontispiece and small stain on plate opposite page 99 on the corner tips. Solid tight binding.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Octavo, green cloth cover with gilt image of a fortress on top cover, and gilt towers on spine. xv [1] 390 pages. All edges dyed red. Illustrated, with many plans, some in black and red. No dust jacket. Wear at head and foot of spine; some cracking at front hinge. Bookseller label on front paste-down endpaper. Siege Warfare, Military, Castles, Architecture, Defense. 091625B. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A Rare title in Contemporary red cloth boards with gilt pictorial inlay of a fort to the front cover contained within border.The book has bevelled edges,gilt title to spin and lettered in black to the upper cover.Slight scuff and rubbing to head of spine and to a couple of corners of the book.There is one former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and one small previous bookseller's catalogue entry tipped onto the front endpaper (easily removed) The binding remains firm with NO hinge weakness.There is a coloured map of Ohet as frontispiece and there are a further 84 drawings and sketches.The wonderfully atmospheric life story of a fortress charts brilliantly the development of fortification and the art of the siege This evocative work is one of the greatest and most unusual books ever written on siege warfare and fortifications.The author recreates the life of a French castle from its obscure origins to its fate in the Franco-Prussian War.As an architect and experienced military engineer Viollet-le-Duc was uniquely placed to write on the history of fortifications. In Annals of a Fortress he examines the life of the imaginery Castle of La Roche-Pont as it endures numerous protracted and bitter sieges. Viollet-le-Duc was a noted military engineer serving admirably in the Franco-Prussian War, and also an architectural historian.Great copy for the collector,if not in the original binding then certainly contemporary to the time,8vo (xv) 390pp Plus 40pp of Publisher's list at rear of the book.First Edition 1875.…

Tissue-guarded coloured frontis, xvi, 394pp incl 103 illustrations, plans etc, some hors-texte. 22x14, glt embossed patterned green cloth, bevelled edges. Cloth a little rubbed and marked, bookplate on fep, one signature slightly loose, plates nice and bright, fair to good copy thus. English translation of 'Histoire de l'Habitation Humaine'; one of a number of English translations done in a somewhat similar style to the French Hetzel editions.…

Half Green Leather/Marbled. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Published. xvi, 390pp, colour frontispiece, other illustrations in black & white, spotting to edges, endpapers and prelims, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate to front fixed endpaper, half green leather, matching marbled boards, edges and corners rubbed, small tear to corner leather on rear board, spine has raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering, bands rubbed and worn, small tears to the leather. Size: 8vo. Military Architecture.…