FLORIANI, Pietro Paolo

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