RARE EDITION OF THIS TREATISE OF MILITARY STRATEGY, INCLUDING THE ARRAY OF THE INFANTRY

ONLY ONE COPY IN USA

Cicogna, Giovanni Matteo. Il primo libro del Trattato Militare di Giovan Mattheo Cicogna Veronese. Nel quale si contengono varie regole, & diversi modi, per fare con l'ordinanza Battaglie nuove di fanteria. Con due tariffe, l'una delle ordinanze, & l'altra delle battaglie quadre perfette per ogni faccia: & molti altri ricordi utilissimi ad ogni buon soldato. In Venetia (Venice): appresso Camillo Castelli, 1583.

4to (204x147 mm); XVIII century binding in quarter vellum, marbled paper boards (light trace of use) and white end-leaves; [6], 65, [1] leaves (last page blank); errors in foliation: leaves number 63-64 numbered 65-66, and then continuing with number 65; text in Italian; woodcut device at title-page (with two warriors, named: Gio. Matteo [the Author] and Camillo [the Publisher]); xylographic coat of arms of the dedicatee Ottavio Farnese on leaf *2r; many xylographic illustrations representing military formations and schemes; woodcut historiated head-letters.

Rare edition of this work of military strategy, including the array of infantry.

Giovanni Matteo Cicogna (16th century), was an Italian scholar, a historiographer and a military from Verona.

References: IT\ICCU\BVEE\002057. CNCE, 12519. OCLC, 800742985 (France). Apparently only one copy in USA (located in the Franklin Penn Libraries Catalog, Philadelphia). Adams, C-2023.

Foxing at some quires, occasional waterstains, but good copy.