Rare Books and ManuscriptsUG443 .T46 1655+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Books
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Plate 1 signed: Odoardo Fialetti fecit. In Venetia MDCXXIIII.Title page is engraved, with elaborate architectural border; signed: Fillippo Sadeler fecit Venetia.Errors in paging: 17 (3rd group of paging), 118 numbered 23, 116, respectively.Errata: page [12]."Non ė ristampa della presente [edizione del 1624] una edizione che porta la data: In Venetia, Appresso Antonio Bariletti et fratelli al Segno del mondo, 1630. Ma ė l'edizione medesima, colla mutazione solo delle sei qui sopra ricordate carte del preliminari, omessavi la Dedicatoria del Tensini al Principe e Senato Veneti."--Razzolini, p. 429.Contains 48 numbered etchings, numbered 1-44, 23+, 32+, 35+, 36+, of which 11 are folded. Also engraved are the title page and a portrait of the author.Signatures: pi1 [dagger]⁴ A-K⁴, ²K², ²A-I⁴ K⁶, ³A-Q⁴ a⁴(-a4).With woodcut initials.With side- and shoulder-notes.Cockle, M.J.D. Bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of contemporary foreign works, 813Breman, P. Books on military arch. printed in Venice, 305Errata on last page.
Subject Terms:
Fortification -- Early works to 1800. | Siege warfare -- Early works to 1800. | Defensive (Military science) -- Early works to 1800. | Offensive (Military science) -- Early works to 1800.