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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Getty copy lacks final leaf (blank?). ; Imprint from colophon. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bookplate of Franklin Institute on front pastedown, and its stamp on t.p. verso. ; Binding: vellum.
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.