An ornate engraved title page. Two winged cherubs at the top hold a billowing banner containing the title text. Below this banner, the scene depicts a military camp or siege in the background with a windmill and smoke rising from a fortification. In the foreground, several men in 17th-century military and noble attire are gathered around a table. One man points to a plan with a compass, while another holds a large sheet with a geometric drawing of a star-shaped fortress. To the bottom left, a laborer digs with a spade near a large rectangular stone block. Pikes, halberds, and a large banner on a pole frame the scene. In the lower-left corner, the engraver's signature "T. Matham Fec." is visible.

MODERN MILITARY

ARCHITECTURE,

Or

FORTIFICATION:

Confirmed by various histories both ancient

and new, and enriched with the figures of the prin-

cipal fortresses that are in Europe, by

MATTHIAS DÖGEN,

Native of Drambourg in the March. Translated into French by

HELIE POIRIER, Parisian.

at Amsterdam

By Louys Elzevier, 1648.