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La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre / del cavaliero Franc[es]co Tensini da Crema ...
Fine Arts Library - Rare Book UG400 .T36 1624
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tensini, Francesco, 1581-1630.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Fortification--Early works to 1800.
- Fortification.
- Military architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Military architecture.
- Penn Provenance:
- Perkins, G. Homer (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 83 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 83 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 128 pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
- Place of Publication:
- In Venetia : Appresso Euangelista Deuchino, 1624.
- Notes:
- Imprint from colophon.
- Signatures: pi1 [dagger]⁴ a⁴(-a4) A-K⁴, ²K², ²A-I⁴ K⁶, ³A-Q⁴.
- Contains 48 etched plates, numbered 1-44, 23+, 32+, 35+, 36+, of which 11 are double-page; the first only signed Odoardo Fialetti fecit. In Venetia MDCXXIIII. Cf. Breman.
- Title within engraved architectural border; at bottom of page: Fillippo Sadeler fecit Venetia.
- Woodcut initials.
- With side- and shoulder-notes.
- Errata on prelim. p. [14].
- Cited in:
- Breman, P. Books on military arch. printed in Venice, 303
- BL Italian, 17th cent. II, p. 899
- OCLC:
- 39095608
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