La militare architettura, ouero, Fortificatione moderna : cauata dall'esperienza, e da varie maniere più pratticabili, con le regole principali dell'aritmetica, e dottrina de' triangoli spettante all'arte, espugnatione, e guardia delle piazze, et vn trattato dell'arte militare / del capitan Pietro Ruggiero ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruggiero, Pietro, active 17th century, author.

Contributor:

Monza, Lodovico, active 17th century, printer.

Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

Fisher Fine Arts Rare Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Military architecture--Early works to 1800.

Military architecture.

Fortification--Early works to 1800.

Fortification.

Siege warfare--Early works to 1800.

Siege warfare.

Genre:

Engravings.

Woodcuts.

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Shirburn Castle (Shirburn, England). South Library (bookplate) (UG460 R84 1661 copy)

Macclesfield, Earls of (bookplate) (stamp) (UG460 R84 1661 copy)

Physical Description:

[12], 238, [6] pages, [15] leaves of plates (chiefly folded) : illustrations, plans ; 27 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Militare architettvra, overo, Fortificatione moderna

Militare architettura, overo, Fortificatione moderna

Militare architettura

Militare architettvra

Fortificatione moderna

Fingerprint:

lil' iue- ele- seci (3) 1661 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Milano : Appresso Lodouico Monza, MDCLXI [1661]

Notes:

Date appears before printer's name in imprint.

Colophon on leaf 2G6r reads: In Milano. Appresso Lodouico Monza alla Piazza de' Mercanti. MDCXXXXXXI.

Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁶ A-2F⁴ 2G⁶ (leaf [Maltese cross]3 signed [Maltese cross]2).

Register on leaf 2G6r.

Added engraved, illustrated title leaf which reads: La militare architettura, ouero, Moderna fortificatione del Capitan Pietro Ruggiero, dedicata all' altezza serenissima di D. Gio. d'Austria.

Folded engraved plates.

Woodcut printer's device (at colophon), illustrations, table, initials, head-pieces and tail-piece.

Type ornament tail-pieces.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

UG460 R84 1661: bookplate (dated 1860) of the South Library of Shirburn Castle (Shirburn, England) with arms of the Parker Earls of Macclesfield and manuscript shelf-mark ("201. E. 18") affixed to front pastedown; manuscript shelf-mark ("201. e. 18.") in pencil on front free endpaper; embossed armorial stamp of the Parker Earls of Macclesfield on added engraved title leaf, title leaf and leaf [Maltese cross]2. manuscript shelf-mark ("V. 4o 21") on front pastedown; manuscript numeral ("36") at head of front free endpaper; manuscript collation note in pencil on back pastedown. Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund. Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Nina Musinsky. Early binding: "Contemporary parchment over pasteboards, manuscript title lettered in capitals along spine, blue-speckled edges (binding darkened & soiled)."--Bookseller's description.

OCLC:

79426069