Duo libri di M. Giacomo Lanteri di Paratico da Brescia : del modo di fare le fortificationi di terra intorno alle città, & alle castella per fortificarle : et di fare cosi i forti in campagna per gli alloggiamenti de gli esserciti, come anco per andar sotto ad una terra, & di fare i ripari nelle batterie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lanteri, Giacomo, -1560.

Contributor:

Zaltieri, Bolognino, active 1555-1576, printer.

Marcolini, Francesco, approximately 1500-approximately 1559, printer.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Fortification--Early works to 1800.

Fortification.

Military architecture--Early works to 1800.

Military architecture.

Penn Provenance:

Perkins, G. Holmes (donor)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered page, 26, 113, that is, 111 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (folded) : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Appresso Bolognino Zaltieri, 1559.

Notes:

Imprint date from colophon.

Colophon: Stampato in Vinegia per Francesco Marcolini. M.D.LVIIII.

Signatures: 2A-2C⁴ 2D² A-M⁴ N-P² Q⁴.

Pages 105-106 omitted in pagination.

The first plate is in gathering B as leaves B2 and B3, and is included in the pagination as p. 11-14; the second plate is included in the signatures as gathering O, but is omitted in the page numbering.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Woodcuts: devices; ill.; initials.

Errata on p. [4]-[5].

"Del modo di fare i forti di terra intorno alle citta, et alle castella ... Libro secondo." has special t.p., with device of the printer, F. Marcolini.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

With: Lanteri, Giacomo. Due dialoghi di M. Iacomo de'Lanteri ... In Venetia : Appresso Vicenzo Valgrisi & Baldessar Costantini, 1557.

Cited in:

Adams L167

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, 369

Breman, P. Books on military arch. printed in Venice, 152

OCLC:

63600331