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Alghisi Delle Forticationi libri tre

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only edition, engraved title within architectural border and 19 double-page, 9 full-page and 11 smaller illustrations, small worm traces to upper inner margins of many ff., occasionally resulting in very slight loss to illustrations, otherwise generally crisp and clean, 18th century mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip, scuffed, [Marini 27-29; Mortimer, Italian, 15; Breman, Books on Military Architecture, 11], folio, [Venice], [Gratioso Percachino for the author], [1570].

***One of the most beautiful fortification books of the 16th century. Alghisi's work seems to have been printed only for private circulation in a fairly small edition. .

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