COLLADO, Luigi (XVI secolo) - Prattica manuale dell’artiglieria, dove si tratta dell’eccellenza, & origine dell’arte militare. Milan: Girolamo Bordone e Pietro Martire Locarni, 1606. First Italian translation based on the Spanish edition of 1592. 4to (264 x 198mm). Large printer's device on title, 16 woodcut folding plates and 67 woodcut illustrations, which are partly derived from Diego Nuñez Alva's Dialogos de la vida del Soldado, headpieces and woodcut initials (some light staining and browning, small wormtrack to bottom margin of final 4 leaves, a few leaves still holding but coming loose). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine (some spotting and chipping). Provenance: 19th-century ownership inscription on title.
COLLADO, Luigi (XVI secolo) - Prattica manuale dell’artiglieria, dove si tratta dell’eccellenza, & origine dell’arte militare. Milan: Girolamo Bordone e Pietro Martire Locarni, 1606. First Italian translation based on the Spanish edition of 1592. 4to (264 x 198mm). Large printer's device on title, 16 woodcut folding plates and 67 woodcut illustrations, which are partly derived from Diego Nuñez Alva's Dialogos de la vida del Soldado, headpieces and woodcut initials (some light staining and browning, small wormtrack to bottom margin of final 4 leaves, a few leaves still holding but coming loose). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine (some spotting and chipping). Provenance: 19th-century ownership inscription on title.
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