MARZIOLI, Francesco - Precetti militari

Lot 161
21.09.2021 10:30UTC +01:00
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€ 1 800
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Event locationItaly, Milano
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Lot 161 | MARZIOLI, Francesco - Precetti militari
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€ 1 800 – 2 500
MARZIOLI, Francesco - Precetti militari. Bologna: Domenico Barbieri, 1670.

A good copy with wide margins and a good impression of the first edition of one of the finest Italian 17th-century military books whose magnificent plates illustrate all the uses of pike and musket, forming battle formations, marching in formation, etc. The dedicatee was noted at the time for establishing a small but permanent Bavarian army.

Folio (395 x 274mm). Half-title, elaborate engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 42 full-page and 22 half-page engraved illustrations, woodcut headpieces and initials (some light soiling, two small wormtracks at the inner margin, one starting at the middle leaves and the other at the final leaves). Contemporary vellum, gilt title on spine (rebacked, some wear, modern endpapers).
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