[Rarebooks] FS: Gentilini's military work on artillery & fortifications. Venice: 1626

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MILITARY) Gentilini, Eugenio. IL PERFETO BOMBARDIERO ET REAL INSTRUTTIONE DI ARTIGLIERI... Con Figure a tal Proposito Disegnate. Venice: Alessandro de' Vechi. 1626. 4to. 2 parts in 1. ff.(8),112;(113)-143,(1). With the final blank. Text well illustrated with woodcuts, including 2 full-page, and a cut on the title. Orig. vellum, soiled, with a stain on the front cover. Text with some light waterstains at top margin towards the end of the text.    $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second part, with its own title page is the author's BREVE DISCORSO... SOPRA LE FORTEZZE, also dated 1626. See Cockle #669 and #790. The first part was first published in 1592 as INSTRUTTIONE DE' BOMBARDIERI.

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