Woodcut coat of arms on t.p. (arm holding sword beneath label with 3 fleurs de lys). Numerous in-text and full-page diagrams, both woodcut and letterpress. Two of the plates are engravings, the other woodcut. Head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials. Woodcut at colophon (Laocoön), presumably Timan's device. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding: later vellum (re-used?). Page edges red.
Engraved historiated title-page; folding copper engraved plates; woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials. ; Includes index. ; Errata: p. [19] at end. ; Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-2M⁴ 2N⁶. ; BL Italian, 17th cent. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound in old vellum, respined; title in ink on spine.
Decorated lining-papers in colors. ; First published Antwerp, 1610. ; At end: Pietro Petracci correttore. ; Title framed within ornamental border. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Added engraved historiated title-page; 16 folded etched plates; engraved head-pieces, initials. ; Imprint from colophon. ; Final two leaves blank. ; Signatures: *⁶ A-T⁶. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound in old vellum; gilt designs on boards and spine; remnants of fabric ties.
Errata, p. [351]. ; Signatures: *⁴(*4+1) A-2X⁴. ; Contains frontispiece and 4 folded plates (etching, some engraving). ; Dedication signed by Gioseffo Nicolis di Robilant. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding: mottled sheepskin. Spine gilt tooled, including title on label. Edges red. Ribbon place marker. Bookplate of Biblioteca di Robilant.
Errata, 2M4r. ; Includes index. ; Signatures: *⁴ A-2M⁴ [2N]-[2O]⁴ [2P]². ; The 25 plates at end are lettered A-2B, omitting J, U, W. ; Etched frontispiece by Alessandro dalla Via after Antonio Zanchi. ; Leaves [2N]1r-[2P]1r bear 17 tables. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Title vignette (printer's device); numerous woodcut illustrations. ; Errata: p. [11] at front. ; Page 201 repeated in numbering. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound in modern panelled calf; gilt spine; edges stained yellow; inscription on front free endpaper reads: "Di Cammillo Parteschi."
Die Vorlage enth. insgesamt 2 Werke ; Titelbl. in Rot- u. Schwarzdr. ; Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Giena alle Spese della Vedova Melchior 1755. - Kolophon: Nella Stampaeria Marggrafiana. ; Frontisp. (Portr., Kupferst.)
Signatures: +⁴ A-K⁶. ; Woodcut t.p. vignette with port. of author. In-text woodcut ill. ; "Essercitio militare . del molto illustre signor Ezachiel Durante"--Leaf 58v-60v. ; First published Venice, 1598. See Index Aureliensis, VI, p. 469. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Twenty-five lines of annotation on last p. ; Binding: heavy gray paper. Shelf mark 2253 on spine label. Author, title & date written on spine.
Colophon reads: In Siena: Appresso Ercole & Agamennone Gori, M.DC.XXI. ; Illustrations: 57 full-page etchings, comprising illustrated title-page, portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby, the dedicatee, signed VB, author's portrait, "misvre pedali," pike exercises (89 fig. on 34 plates), halberd exercises (4 plates incl. fig. 90-95), and musket exercises (30 fig. on 15 plates). Brunet suggests an unidentified "Bertelli" as the artist. The etching on p. 247 has the date 1620 on one musket and "Pfrem. Bart." on the other. ; Complete in one volume, although running title "Prima parte" is used throughout. ; Errata: p. 315. ; Register and colophon: p. [1] at end. ; Pages 123, 253-256 repeated in numbering. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound in modern calf, signed "Fratelli Binda, Milano"; gilt coat of arms on front and rear boards; gilt title on spine; all edges gilt.
Marchetti's device on t.p. (anchor & dolphin). Head-pieces. Decorated initials, one historiated. ; Each vol. has t.p. and is signed and foliated separately. Foliation: [8], 79 [i.e. 80] leaves; 34 leaves, [1] leaf of plates; 30, [1] leaves (the last blank); [1], 28, [1] leaves (the last blank); [2], 34 leaves. Some plates included in foliation. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Centered on front pastedown of Getty copy is Giovanni Muzio's etched bookplate by Giacomo Manzù, now covered by bookplate of The Getty Center Library. ; Binding: old limp vellum. Title written on spine with Gothic initials.
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.
