Vallo : libro continente appertinente à capitanij, retenere & fortificare una città con bastioni, con noui artificij de fuoco aggionti, come nella tauola appare, & de diuerse sorte poluere, et de espugnare una città con ponti, scale, argani, trombe, trenciere, artegliarie, caue, dare, auisamenti senza messo allo amico, fare ordinanze, battaglioni, & ponti de disfida con lo pingere : opera molto utile con la esperientia de l'arte militare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Della Valle, Battista.

Contributor:

Ravani, Pietro di, active 16th century, 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)

Dumaine, J. (label, Librairie Militaire)

Ferrand, Louis (label)

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

In Vineggia : Per gli heredi di Piero Rauano & compagni, 1550.

Notes:

Author's name from caption on leaf 1.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: i⁸ A-I⁸.

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

Local Notes:

Imperfect: last gathering (I⁸) detached from spine.

Cited in:

Breman, P. Books on military arch. printed in Venice, 328

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600 710

Marshall, R.G. STC Italian III, p. 345

OCLC:

84481940