ENGRAVING FROM “Les travaux de Mars ou L’art de la Guerre” A STUDY OF FORTIFICATIONS, BY ALLAIN MANESSON MALLET, ENGINEER FOR LOUIS XIV, Moulin Dorval & Harbour, Windmill & Boats

Rare 1684 antique hand-colored engraving titled: METHODE DE DECRIRE UN CERCLE SUR UNE LIGNE DETERMINEE OU NON… Moulin Dorval et port (Dorval Windmill & Boats).  PAGE 33. By Allain Manesson Mallet, a military engineer (Ingenieur des Camps et Armees dv Roy). An original copperplate engraving, published in Paris in 1684, this page is from the Atlas “L’ Art de la Guerre” (The art of war) & is in great condition especially for its age. CLOSE TO 340 YEARD OLD! Hand colored engraving on hand laid paper. The engraving has hand colouring and the size of this image is 7” x 4 1/2 ”. This engraving came from “Allain Mallet’s Study of Fortifications, from “Les travaux de Mars ou L’art de la Guerre” c.1684. “The Works of Mars or The Art of War” Allain Manesson Mallet, a master of Mathematics, military Engineer and Geographer to King Louis XIV,,published what was to become some of the most thought after studies of fortifications and the Art of War of the 17th-18th centuries. If you are look