"Lines of Defence" Topic

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"A new, beautifully-produced book containing eighteenth-century plans and elevations of the fortifications built and projected by the Hospitaller Knights of St. John in the Maltese islands has recently been published jointly by the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta and Malta Libraries.

Appropriately titled LINES OF DEFENCE – Fortification Drawings of the Baroque Age at the National Library of Malta, this massive, large-format, full-colour publication brings together in one volume the collection of fortifications drawings of the Knights of the Order of St John housed in the National Library of Malta in Valletta.

Although frequently consulted by scholars and students over the years, these plans have never been brought together in one extensive compendium in the manner that they deserve as a prime source of original information on eighteenth-century Hospitaller military architecture. This book, however, is more than just an album of drawings as each of the featured plans is accompanied by explanatory commentaries that serve to make this publication a useful resource of military- architectural and historical information…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Thanks Armand! 😊

A votre service mon ami!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Very interesting subject but €850.00 EUR for the book and €110.00 EUR for p&p is just too stiff for me.

Happy for that my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand