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CICOGNA, Giovanni Matteo (16th-century). Il primo libro del trattato militare. Venice: Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. 4° (205 x 148mm). Woodcut device on title and final leaf, woodcut portrait on verso of title, numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page, large woodcut headpiece at beginning of text and historiated woodcut initials. (First 10 leaves with wormtrack to inner margin, occasional browning and spotting, a few stains.) Contemporary limp vellum, shelf-mark label on spine (stained and rubbed). Provenance: ink shelf-mark on title -- Domus Prob. Prov. Veneto Med. S.J. (stamp on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label).
CICOGNA, Giovanni Matteo (16th-century). Il primo libro del trattato militare. Venice: Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. 4° (205 x 148mm). Woodcut device on title and final leaf, woodcut portrait on verso of title, numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page, large woodcut headpiece at beginning of text and historiated woodcut initials. (First 10 leaves with wormtrack to inner margin, occasional browning and spotting, a few stains.) Contemporary limp vellum, shelf-mark label on spine (stained and rubbed). Provenance: ink shelf-mark on title -- Domus Prob. Prov. Veneto Med. S.J. (stamp on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label).

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CICOGNA, Giovanni Matteo (16th-century). Il primo libro del trattato militare. Venice: Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. 4° (205 x 148mm). Woodcut device on title and final leaf, woodcut portrait on verso of title, numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page, large woodcut headpiece at beginning of text and historiated woodcut initials. (First 10 leaves with wormtrack to inner margin, occasional browning and spotting, a few stains.) Contemporary limp vellum, shelf-mark label on spine (stained and rubbed). Provenance: ink shelf-mark on title -- Domus Prob. Prov. Veneto Med. S.J. (stamp on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label).

A RARE FIRST EDITION of a treatise on military strategy written by Giovanni Cicogna, an historiographer and soldier from Verona. The work contains numerous woodcut illustrations of military strategy and battle tactics.

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