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CAPRA, Alessandro (ca. 1610-1683). La nuoua architettura militare. Bologna: per Giacomo Monti, 1683. 4° (206mm x 147mm). Title within a woodcut border, 3 folding woodcut plates (2 torn), numerous full-page woodcut illustrations and diagrams, half-title. (Some discolouration, tear in Q2.) 19th-century vellum-backed boards (a few wormholes in joints, corners bumped).
FIRST EDITION of this manual of all things military as well as containing a part dedicated to machinery of all kinds including fountains and a method of raising water from aquifers. Vinciana calls for four plates whereas Riccardi and Olschki Choix only mention three. Vinciana 4348 'Opera anche questa importante e ricercata dai bibliofili, interessante specialmente per la storia della fortificazione, dell'artiglieria e della meccanica applicata. Rara ediz. orig.'; Riccardi I, 234-35 'tuttavia assai ricercate ed appregiate dai bibliografi'; Olschki Choix VI, 6261.
FIRST EDITION of this manual of all things military as well as containing a part dedicated to machinery of all kinds including fountains and a method of raising water from aquifers. Vinciana calls for four plates whereas Riccardi and Olschki Choix only mention three. Vinciana 4348 'Opera anche questa importante e ricercata dai bibliofili, interessante specialmente per la storia della fortificazione, dell'artiglieria e della meccanica applicata. Rara ediz. orig.'; Riccardi I, 234-35 'tuttavia assai ricercate ed appregiate dai bibliografi'; Olschki Choix VI, 6261.