Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 144

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CATANEO, GIROLAMO. Nuovo Ragionamento del fabricare le Fortezze, si per Prattica, come per Theorica. Woodcut diagrams, including 3 double-page. [4], 35 [i. e., 34] leaves; lacks woodcut plate to be inserted as leaf 33. bound with his: Del Misurare le Muraglie [etc.]. Diagrams in text. [2], 62, [2] leaves, including colophon leaf at end. and his: Modo di formare con Prestezza le Moderne Battaglie di Picche, Archibugieri, et Cavalleria. Diagrams in text. [4], 30 [i. e., 27], [1] leaves, including colophon leaf at end; lacks 3 woodcut plates to be inserted as leaves 16, 20, and 23. Together, 3 volumes in one. 4to, 206x145 mm, 18th-century vellum boards, soiled, spine darkened and discolored; occasional heavy browning and dampstaining, most noticeable in the first work and at the end of the third. 19th-century embossed stamp of the United Service Institution on titles, their bookplate on front pastedown (released). Brescia: Giovanni Francesco & Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1571; 1572; 1571

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first editions of treatises on fortification, surveying, and infantry and cavalry formations. Cockle 779, 541, 940; Riccardi I, 315-16.