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Brescia, Tomaso Bozzola, 1571. In 4°. 3 works in 1 volume in-4° (mm 198x145). Leaves [4], 81 [ie 78] (complete with leaves 38, 41-42, 72-73, 78-79); [4], 39, [1]; [2], 29 [ie 30]. BOUND WITH: Id., Way of quickly forming modern battles of pikes, arquebusiers, and cavalry ... In Brescia: from Francesco, et Pietro Maria de' Marchetti brothers, 1571. Leaves [4], 30 [ie 27], [1] with 3 plates folded several times at the end. Printer's device on the frontispiece, initials and many military diagrams engraved in wood in the text. BOUND WITH: Id., Nuovo ragione del fabricare le fortzze... In Brescia: from Francesco, et Pietro Maria de' Marchetti brothers, 1571. Leaves [4], 33 [i.e. 34], with 1 plate folded out of the text. Each part with its own title page and large woodcut printer's mark, many illustrations in the text, including double-page ones, woodcut initials and headpieces. Light marginal water stains, scattered redness, some small woodworm holes. Contemporary binding in full soft parchment, a little loose and worn, with spine covered in marbled paper and handwritten titles on a paper insert.
Specialist Notes
A very rare work, and difficult to collate; as Marini also observes, «the series of editions of this military writer is a little confused». The treatise, the work of the Novara engineer who fortified Sabbioneta for Vespasiano Gonzaga, was continually revised and expanded by its Author; composed of only two books in the first edition of 1564 (the Opera nuova di fortifying and the Trattato degli essamini de' Bombardieri), it was increased by one book in the subsequent printing of 1567 (Tavole brevissime...), then «in 1571 the three aforementioned books were reprinted in Brescia in 4° with additions and corrections by the author, who in the same year and sixth published two more, namely: Nuovo ragione di fabbricare le forzze [...] and Modo di forme con prestezza le moderna battaglia...». Our copy, which corresponds but not perfectly to that described by D'Ayala 15, contains all five of the above books, but the first book - which constitutes the first of the three parts of the Military Art - is missing 7 cards; see also Marini 22.
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