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MILITARIA -- EXTRACT uyt de Resolutien van de Edele Mog. Heeren Raaden van Staate der Vereenigde Nederlanden. (N.pl., n.pr.), 1770. 22 pp. W. 4 lge-fold. engr. plates by J. v. Schley. Fol. Cont. marbled brds. (Spine gone, sides a bit stained/worn, plates w. small tears on folds/in margins).
Extract of the minutes of a meeting of the commissioners entrusted with military affairs of the Raad van State of the Dutch Republic, concerning the conflict between the Dutch General De Creuznach and the artillery founder Jan Verbruggen (1712-1781). In the early 1750s Verbruggen was appointed at the state foundry in The Hague, which was then reorganized after being neglected for years. He was accountable to General De Creuznach, but in 1759 he re-organized the foundry during De Creuznach's absence. When De Creuznach returned, he rejected every cannon founded by Verbruggen as being defective. This led to a decade of strife, only ending when Verbruggen and his son emigrated to England in 1770 to work in the arsenal of Woolwich. Two of the large engravings show cannons, with details of the supposed defects. - Sloos, Warfare, 07087.€ 400
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