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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 1655
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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)
- K. und K. Kriegs Archiv. (bookplate) (stamp)
- Liechtenstein Hauslab'sche Sammlung (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 83 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 83 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 128 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portrait, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
- Place of Publication:
- In Venetia : Appresso Francesco Brogiollo, 1655.
- Notes:
- Signatures: pi1 [dagger]⁴ A-K⁴, ²K², ²A-I⁴ K⁶, ³A-Q⁴ a⁴(-a4).
- Contains 48 etched plates, numbered 1-44, 23+, 32+, 35+, 36+, of which 11 are folded; plate no. 1 only (inserted after p. 18) signed Odoardo Fialetti fecit. In Venetia MDCXXIIII.
- Folded title leaf; title within engraved architectural border; at bottom of page: Fillippo Sadeler fecit Venetia.
- Woodcut initials.
- With side- and shoulder-notes.
- Errata on last page.
- Local Notes:
- Ms. notes on front free endpaper.
- Piece of ms. note with stamp from Kriegs Archiv. laid in.
- Cited in:
- Breman, P. Books on military arch. printed in Venice, 305
- OCLC:
- 23622887
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