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FLORIANI, Pietro Paolo

Difesa et offesa delle piazze, seconda impressione
Venetia
Francesco Baba
1654
€700 - €900

In-folio (33 x 23 cm), [36], 216 pp, engraved title, engraved author's portrait in allegorical border, illustrated with 52 woodcut engravings, mostly full-page (showing fortifications of towns in Austria, Hungary, Italy, ways of attack and defense, ways to build bridges etc. and a folding map at the end). Plates are numbered 1-51 and there is also a plate 14B. Marginal annotations, extra drawing made on last fly-leaf. Title page slightly soiled, some leaves browned. Contemporary supple vellum binding, tear in spine, soiled, edges worn

Scarce Italian war manual. It was first published in 1630. Ref. Graesse II, 602