FLORIANI, Pietro Paolo. Difesa et Offesa delle Piazze, Venice: Francesco Baba, 1654, 2°, engraved title with dedicatee's arms, engraved portrait of the author, 44 engraved plates of fortifications and 7 smaller engraved illustrations, one large folding plate (title lightly browned, gathering a almost detached, occasional light marginal soiling), contemporary stiff paper boards (rebacked), uncut, bookplate of Francesco Campana. [Cockle 825; Riccardi I, 463-464]

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FLORIANI, Pietro Paolo. Difesa et Offesa delle Piazze, Venice: Francesco Baba, 1654, 2°, engraved title with dedicatee's arms, engraved portrait of the author, 44 engraved plates of fortifications and 7 smaller engraved illustrations, one large folding plate (title lightly browned, gathering a almost detached, occasional light marginal soiling), contemporary stiff paper boards (rebacked), uncut, bookplate of Francesco Campana. [Cockle 825; Riccardi I, 463-464]

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AN ATTRACTIVE COPY of the second, expanded edition of Floriani's treatise on all aspects of fortification. ("Piazze" here refers to gun emplacements.) Floriani was designer of the famous fortifications at Malta, and first published this work in his native Macerata in 1630. The plates and illustrations in the book are numbered from 1 to 51, including 14A and 14B and the folding plate (number 51). Cockle and Riccardi, however, require only 51 plates in total, and Cockle does not call for a portrait of the author.

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