COLLADO (Luis).

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COLLADO (Luis).
Prattica manuale dell'artiglieria. Milan, Girolamo Bordoni and Pietromartire Locarni, 1606 In-4, soft vellum, title in ink on the spine (Binding of the time). Cockle, n°668. Second edition in Italian of the great treatise on artillery by Luis Collado, Spanish engineer attached to the army of Philip II in Italy. It is decorated with 16 plates, most of them folding, and figures in the text, all engraved on wood. The work was originally published in Venice in 1586 and a Spanish translation was printed in 1592. Armorial bookplate Henri de Broise and bookplate dated 1920 general Taufflieb. Light foxing and small wetness in the margin of a few leaves, wetness in the last three leaves. Crack without missing in the bottom of the last leaf. Edges of the last 15 leaves and of the second plate a little scratched. Small lack of vellum on a spine.
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