Military Engineering.- Della Valle (Battista)

Vallo libro continente appertenentie ad Capitanii retenere et fortificare una città co’ bastion, second edition, includes final blank leaf, title page (upper margin a bit cropped) with woodcut pictorial border by Eustachio Celebrino, showing at the top Mars and Bellona and on the sides weapons and armour, 10 full page woodcuts and 11 other illustrations (one full page) representing fireworks, siege machines, bastions, mines, battering rams, bridges, diving equipment, 26 diagrams of battle formations, occasional spotting, slight waterstains on upper margin of a dozen leaves, later limp vellum, [Essling 2227; Sander 7477; D'Ayala 96; Guarnieri, p. 109], small 8vo, Gregorius de’ Gregoriis? Venice, 1524.

***Second edition (1st. 1521) of this rare early military manual, the first one to contain information on fireworks.

irst one to contain information on fireworks.