Signatures: pi⁴ +⁴ ++² A-Z⁸ 2A¹⁰. ; T.p. vignette and added engraved t.p. signed by Giacomo Picccini. 103 emblematic ill. A few woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces composed of printer's ornaments. ; First published in Spanish by Nicolao Enrico (Munich, 1640). ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding: modern calfskin. Spine gilt tooled, incorporating author, title & date.
Includes errata. ; Includes indexes. ; 65-72, 145-148 omitted in paging. ; Engraved t.p. by Gaspare Grispoldi, incorporating a portrait bust of the author. Engraved caption titles for trattati 1 & 2. Trattato 2 has 40 numbered in-text engravings. The captions of nos. 19-23 state that they are from the hands of Gio. Domenico Pallavisino, Giorgio Doria, Bartolomeo Lomellino and Giacomo Cattaneo; the work is dedicated to all four on the t.p. Barezzi's woodcut printer's device, p. 299 (serpent). Initials. ; Printed by Barezzo Barezzi. See colophon, trattato 1. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Giovanni Muzio's etched bookplate by Giacomo Manzù on front pastedown. Pasted over an engraved mask of Medusa on t.p. is the armorial bookplate of Agostino Fransoni, dated 1630; see Gelli, vignetta 446. ; Binding: later decorated paper, back & corners in vellum.