[Rarebooks] FS: Unusual facsimile of the first "American" (Mexico: 1583) book on Military Science

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(FACSIMILES) Garcia de Palacio, Diego. DIALOGOS MILITARES de la
Formacion, e Informacion de Personas, Instrumentos, y Cosas
Nescessarias Para el Buen Uso de la Guerra... Mexico: en Casa de Pedro
Ocharte. Ano de 1583. (Mexico: Ediciones Cultura Hispanica. 1944). Sm.
4to. Photo-facsimile. ff.(4),192. With woodcuts & diagrams of military
formations (set in type). Large woodcut coat-of-arms on title page.
Bound in old vellum with hand lettered spine.	$300.00 (trade discount
allowed)
See Palau 99539. A very rare early Mexican imprint. Very unusual to
have a facsimile bound in old vellum (not modern vellum, made to look 
old), to duplicate the original.

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