Author: Freitag Adam, 1602 - 1664
Title: L'architecture militaire, ou la Fortification nouvelle, augmentée et enrichie de forteresses régulières, irrégulières et de dehors, le tout à la practique moderne.
Title in English: Military Architecture, or the New Fortification […] Military Architecture, or the New Fortification, Expanded and Enriched with Regular and Exterior Irregular Fortifications, all According to Latest Practices. From Toussain et Quinet.
Published: chez Toussain et Quinet, 1640.
Adam Fritach (1608–1650) was a war engineer in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, physician, philosopher, and medical doctor. His work New Military Architecture was first published in Latin, in Leiden in 1631. It discusses choosing a location for fortifications and the different fortification design and building techniques. The book was repeatedly published in Latin, German, and French.
Reference: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 272.
Published: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 272-277.
Exhibitions: "The Collection of Lawyer
Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books", September 3, 2018 – October
21, 2018.