Fucina di Marte : nella quale con mirabile industria e con finissima tempra d'instruzioni militari, s'apprestano tutti gli ordini appartenenti à qual si voglia carico, essercitabile in guerra : fabricata da'migliori autori, e capitani valorosi, ch'abbiano scritto sin'ora in questa materia, i nomi di quali appaiono doppo la lettera a'lettori.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heredi di Lucantonio Giunta, printer.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

Fortification--Early works to 1800.

Fortification.

Artillery--Early works to 1800.

Artillery.

Penn Provenance:

Perkins, G. Holmes (donor)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages, 911 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 28 unnumbered pages, 156 pages, 5 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Half-title: Disciplina universale dell'arte militare

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso i Giunti, 1641.

Notes:

This ed. is described as version "B" by Breman.

"Autori contenuti nel presente volume"--P. [16]-[17], 1st count.

Introductory letter signed by Bernardo Giunta.

Signatures: *⁸(-*3-6 + "*"⁶) 2*⁸ 3*² A-3L⁸ 3M⁴ [dagger]-2[dagger]⁴ 3[dagger]⁶, ²A-S⁴ T⁶.

Engraved t.p. and plates.

Woodcuts: initials; ill.; head- and tail-pieces.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Errata on p. [28], 4th count.

Includes index.

"Il capo de bombardieri ... di Pietro Sardi" at end, has special t.p. and separate pagination and signatures.

Local Notes:

Library's copy retains the original leaf *3 which was to have been cancelled; leaves *7 and *8 have been excised and reinserted.

Ms. notes on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Breman, P. Books on military arch. printed in Venice, 133

NUC pre-1956 187, p. 229

Contains:

Sardi, Pietro, 1559?- Capo de' bombardieri essaminato, & approuato dal generale dell'artiglieria.

OCLC:

79996109