LUPICINI, Antonio. Architettura militare con altri Avvertimenti appartenenti alla Guerra, Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1582, 4°, printer's device to title, one folding woodcut plan, 4 full-page illustrations (lacking A4 with dedicatory poem and poem to the author, spotted), contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine. [Berlin Katalog 3515]

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LUPICINI, Antonio. Architettura militare con altri Avvertimenti appartenenti alla Guerra, Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1582, 4°, printer's device to title, one folding woodcut plan, 4 full-page illustrations (lacking A4 with dedicatory poem and poem to the author, spotted), contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine. [Berlin Katalog 3515]

Provenance

Barto. Riccelmo, early inscription to title; Jacobi Manzoni, bookplate.

Lot Essay

This work contains two treatises: the first on military architecture, the second on artillery and siege warfare. The author was a Florentine military engineer who participated at the victorious siege of Siena in 1556 and assisted in the reduction of Montalcino and Montichiello nearby.

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