Suckow, Lorenz Johann Daniel. First reasons of war architecture designed in a context. 7 Bl., 158 pp., 3 Bl. With engraved title vignette and 16 folded copper panels. 25.5 x 20 cm. Pappband d. Zeit (spotted and dusted, corners infested, intentions with old notes in ink, front free intent with narrow edge section). Frankfurt and Leipzig, Goebhardt, 1769. Jähns 2772. Jordan (fortress) 3695. Ornamental stitching. Berlin II, 3547. – First edition. Suckow (1722-1801) was not an experienced war engineer, but a "learned academic and senior of the German Society of Jena" (Jähns), professor of mathematics and physics including architecture. His "gediegenes Unterrichtsbuch" (Jähns) on the art of war construction formed the basis for the teaching "on the local academy" for "in service" officers. - First edition, in which one finds "of the situation, in equal proportion to the installation and the internal furnishings of the buildings adequate instruction". - Hamberger/Meusel V, 85. – In passingly slightly tanned, in I. six Bl. in the Footbridge with large brown spot. – Attached: Mayer, Andreas Christian. Short instruction of practical bourgeois architecture: which deals with the comfortable internal healing of the buildings to the instruction for the lovers of buildings as a continuation of his treatise of the outer beauty and vestivity of the building. 35 p. With 8 folded copper plates. Nuremberg and Leipzig, Weigel and Schneider, 1784.