PETER SCHENK, A military architectural illustration or just prospect of the present type of fortification, according to the instructions of the most famous Kreigs builders in Europe, 1708
Design of how a fort, a defensive structure was built with instructions in German.
Petrus Schenck (Elberfeld, Wuppertal 26 December 1660 - Leipzig, Saxony 1711) was a German engraver and mapmaker. Schenck was one of the most important figures in Saxon cartography in the first half of the 18th century.The mapmaker entered the service of the Amsterdam engraver and map publisher Gerard Valck. Schenck lived in the Jordaan on the Lauriergracht in amsterdam. The couple had six children, all of whom were baptized in the Westerkerk.
Around 1700, he settled in Leipzig as a globetrotter, mapmaker and art dealer.
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