Signatures: *⁴ A-G⁴. ; Marchettis' device on t.p. (anchor & dolphin). On *2r are the arms of Ottavio Brembato, to whom the work is dedicated. In addition to in-text diagrams, there are 3 folded plates foliated 16, 20 and 20, the last mistakenly for 23. Head and tail pieces, historiated initials. ; Issued as the second item with: Nvovo ragionamento del fabricare le fortezze / di Girolamo Cataneo Nouarese. Brescia : Appresso Gio. Francesco et Pietro Maria fratelli de Marchetti, 1571 (SPECIAL 1382-890). ; Mode of access: Internet.
Errata, *4r. Numerous in-text diagrams, in addition to the folded plate signed "K3." Head and tail pieces, initials. ; Signatures: *⁴ A-C⁴ D² E⁴ F-G² H-I⁴ K⁴(K2 + folded plate signed K3 and foliated 33). ; Marchettis' device on t.p. (anchor & dolphin). Arms on *2r (of Gierolamo di Lodrone, to whom the work is dedicated?). ; With: Modo di formare con prestezza le moderne battaglie / Girolamo Catanese (Brescia : Francesco et Pietro Maria de' Marchetti, 1571). ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding: old limp vellum. Title written on spine: FORTIFICATIONE CATANEO. Remains of 2 pairs of skin ties at foredge.
Errata, a6r. ; Signatures: a⁸ A-2I⁴. ; Giolito device on t.p. In-text woodcut ill., including full-page representation of horseman, a6v. Letter diagrams of troop formations. Headpieces, initials. ; Colophon: In Venetia, Per Giouan. Griffio. M D LXIX. The work is a re-issue of Griffio's 1569 ed., with partly new preliminaries printed by Giolito, for Thomaso Porcacchi's Collana historica; see Grässe. Porcacchi's added dedication dated Nov. 18, 1569, at Venice. ; Grässe ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding: old limp vellum. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Shelfmarks at head of front cover and on back pastedown.
Printer's device on t.p ; Includes index ; Folded leaf: Figura del campo de Romani ; Woodcut illustrations throughout ; The second discourse has special t.p.: Discorso sopra la castrametatione et disciplina militare de Romani, con i bagni & essercitij antichi de Greci & Romani. In Lione : Appresso G. Rovillio, 1571 ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Special Collections copy has bookplate of Don Cameron Allen
Dedication to Henry VIII, King of England, A4. ; Woodcut port. of author on t.p. Diagrams throughout text. Illus. on 72v repeated as folded tip-on at 71r. Historiated initials. ; Signatures: A-II⁴. ; Place of publication from colophon, which continues: .per Nicolo de Bascarini, ad instantia & requisitione, & à proprie spese de Nicolo Tartaglia autore. Nell'anno di nostra salute M D LIIII. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; At either side of author's port. on t.p. are two impressions of the stamp of: BIB. M. MORCINI DE PERVSIA [i.e. Perosa Argentina, Italy]. Inscription on front free endpaper recto: Monte Magno(?): Per Vso del P. D. Nicolo et della libraria. ; Binding: old limp vellum. Author and brief title written at head of spine, and again downwards on the spine. Shelf mark on slip of paper at foot of spine. Holes for 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Spine of textblock reinforced with vellum MS waste. ; Getty copy bound with: Ragionamenti de Nicolo Tartaglia sopra la sua travagliata inventione (Venice : Apresso di l'autore, 1551) -- Inventione de Nicolo Tartaglia (Venice : Nicolo de Bascarini a istantia de l'authore, 1550) -- Regola generale a sulevare con ragione e misura / Nicolo Tartaglia (Venice : Nicolo de Bascarini, 1551).
Includes errata, verso of last leaf. ; Includes index. ; Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-Z⁴ a-c⁴. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Centered on front pastedown is armorial bookplate of Liechtenstein Library ("Ex libris Liechtensteinianis"). Inscription at head of t.p.: Coll. Hon. soci.s Jesu catal. . Another inscription at foot of t.p.: Di Giovamb. Corbinelli / Arcipre. Shelf mark to right of printer's device, beneath an older mark now lined out: B.V. / 160. ; Binding: limp vellum. Title written on paper label at head of spine, over older title written directly on spine; label now partly torn.
Contains woodcut diagrams. Head-piece. Initials. Printed marginalia. Device on t.p. (angel carrying a door, and supporting a shield with initials FP). Zappella (fig. 89) assigns it to Francesco Portonari, Venice, 1552-1578, rather than to Tamborino. ; Signatures: A-V⁴. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Library's copy has owner's signature on t.p. at either side of device: Del Colonello Jacomo Matteuccj. Notes in brown ink upside down on back pastedown. ; Binding: old limp vellum. Title and author written on spine (now torn). Remains of two pairs of ties at foredge.
Woodcut diagrams. Printer's device on t.p. and last p. Initials. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Earl of Hopetoun's bookplate centered on front pastedown. Theodore Besterman's bookplate centered on recto of front free endpaper, beneath a price written in black ink: 0. 5. ij. ; Binding: sprinkled calf. Double gilt fillets along edges of boards. Spine gold tooled; label with title reading upwards: LANTER / DIALO. Edges red.
Folded leaf 33 bound in at end of pt. 2. Leaf 16 (comprising 2 folded leaves) and single folded leaves 20 and 23 bound in at end of pt. 3. There are 2 additional folded leaves bound after pt. 3; they appear to be printed with the woodcuts for the first two diagrams of leaf 20, but without the accompanying letterpress. ; Foliation, pt. 1: [4], 80 leaves (4 folded) ; pt. 2: 35 leaves (1 folded); pt. 3: 30, [1] leaves (the last blank, 4 folded); pt. 4: [1], 29 leaves; pt. 5: [2], 39, [1] leaves. ; Bozzola's device appears on all t.p.'s (griffin). Numerous woodcut ill. including many double-page and some on folded leaves. The double-page ill. have letterpress on the verso and are tipped onto a stub at the centerfold; most of them are assigned a separate signature letter and included in the foliation as two leaves. Initials. ; Pts. 2-5 have added t.p.'s. Each pt. separately foliated and signed, the 5 sequences of signatures having from 1 to 5 letters. ; An expanded version of Cataneo's Dell'arte militare libri tre (Brescia : T. Bozzola, 1571). Also issued at Brescia in the same year by P.M. Marchetti. See BM. ; BM ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Inscription on front pastedown: Vale. Paoli, 2. Below is another: di Bernard.no ?Minucchi / L2.10. An inscription on the t.p. at either side of the device has been scratched out. Arithmetical sum in right margin of t.p. Bibliographical note in pencil on back free endpaper verso, followed by an inscription (now scratched out), and the pencilled signature: .Joseph. ; Binding: old limp vellum. Author and title written on paper label at head of spine.
Includes index. ; Woodcuts diagrams and ill. A folded double plate is bound in between p. 10 and 15 (3rd sequence); it is signed Bii and represents the missing pages 11-14. A similar plate is bound in between p. 100 and 101 (3rd sequence); it is signed O, but is not part of the pagination. Printer's devices on both t.p.'s. Initials. ; Libro secondo has added t.p. (p. 67). ; Date from colophon. It reads: Stampato in Vinegia per Francesco Marcolini, 1559. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Faded, cancled inscriptions on title-page. ; Printer's device with initials "GGF" and mottos: "De la mia morte eterna vita io vivo" and "Semper eadem" on title-page; initials; head- and tail-pieces. ; Page 67 numbered as "66". ; Signatures: * A-I. ; EDIT 16 (online), ; McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, ; Mode of access: Internet.
Port. of Guicciardini facing ℓ l. ; Leaves 34 and 40 mis-numbered 33 and 39. ; Digital surrogate made of Dr. Paul F. Grendler's personal copy. ; Mode of access: Internet.
The etched emblems appear within elaborate borders of strapwork, architectural elements, figures, masks, swags, fruit, etc. They include Latin mottos. Dolce's explanatory verses appear on the leaf following each emblem. These are printed letterpress, within one of two woodcut borders, and are numbered 1-52 at the upper right (mistakes, omissions). Plates [38] and [45] each contain two emblems. ; Place of publication taken from Venetian privilege on t.p. Date from that of dedication to Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara (6 ottobre 1562). ; Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; At foot of many of Dolce's verses is a reference in brown ink to Paolo Giovio's Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose. ; Binding: later vellum. Author and brief title in gilt on red leather spine label. Page edges sprinkled red. Green silk place marker. ; Library's copy lacks dedicatory leaf ([2]).
Includes errata, leaf [5] verso and [6] recto, first sequence. ; Printer given in colophon: Lodouico di Sabbio. ; Numerous woodcut ill. and diagrams. Twenty are double-page; they form part of the sequence of foliation, and some have letterpress on the back. Leaves 35, 38, and the final unfoliated leaf entitled "Alloggiamento campali" are folded ill. Printer's device on t.p. Initials. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding, c. 2: limp vellum. Title written at head of spine in brown ink: Cataneo / Arte / Militare; 1564 written below in black ink. Remains of 4 pairs of ties at head, foot, and foredge. At upper left corner of front pastedown is book label of Biblioteca Banzi. ; Binding, c. 1: limp vellum. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Title written on spine: CATANEO / DI FORTIFICARE / . Bombardieri // 1564. Shelf mark at upper left on front cover. Theodore Besterman's label centered on front pastedown. ; Library's c. 2 bound with: Duo libri del modo di fare le fortificationi / Giacomo Lanteri. Venice : B. Zaltieri, 1559. ; In Library's c. 2, *3-4 bound after *6 (1st gathering). ; The 20 double-page ill. in Library's c. 2 have been hinged in at the centerfold. The final folded plate in both Getty copies have been similarly hand colored.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, sometimes anglicized as Tully, (106 BCE - 43 BCE), was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator, political theorist, Roman consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He published most of his speeches himself, 58 of them have been conserved in the original, of about 100 we know parts. ; Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE - 43 BCE) war ein römischer Politiker, Anwalt, Schriftsteller und Philosoph, der berühmteste Redner Roms und Konsul im Jahr 63 v. Chr. Cicero wird noch heute als der herausragende Redner der römischen Antike bezeichnet. Cicero hat die meisten seiner Reden selbst veröffentlicht; 58 Reden sind (teilweise lückenhaft) im Originaltext erhalten, etwa 100 durch Titel oder Bruchstücke bekannt.