Vallo : libro continente appertenentie ad capitanii, retenere & fortificare una citta co[n] bastioni, con noui artificii de fuoco aggio[n]ti, come nella tabola appare, & de diuerse sorte poluere, et de expugnare una citta co[n] po[n]ti, scale, argani, tro[m]be, trenciere, artegliarie, caue, dare, auisamenti senza messo allo amico, fare ordinanze, battaglioni, et ponti de disfida con lo pingere : opera molto utile con la experientia de l'arte militare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Della Valle, Battista.

Contributor:

Gregori, Gregorio de', active 1480-1528, printer.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

Fortification--Early works to 1800.

Fortification.

Tactics--Early works to 1800.

Tactics.

Sieges--Early works to 1800.

Sieges.

Penn Provenance:

Perkins, G. Holmes (donor)

Bonnesen, Matthias (bookplate)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 71 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Stampata in Venetia : [G. de Gregoriis], nel anno del Signore Dio nostro, 1524 a di 11 marzo.

Notes:

Author's name from caption on leaf 1.

Place and date of publication from colophon.

Printer's name from BM STC Italian, 1465-1600.

Signatures: I⁸ A-I⁸ (I8 blank).

Title within ornamental woodcut border; woodcut ill. and initials.

Cf. D'Ayala, M. Bibliografia militare-italiana, p. 96.

Cf. Grässe, VII, p. 252.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: title leaf mended with some loss of ornamental border.

Library's copy has last blank leaf (I8) pasted on back cover.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, 710

Cockle, M.J.D. Military books, 765

Breman, P. Books on military arch. printed in Venice, 317

OCLC:

82759738