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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book is an invaluable guide to the practice of gunnery from the early sixteenth century. The author, an experienced artilleryman, provides a comprehensive overview of the field, covering topics such as the different types of artillery pieces, the construction of fortifications, and the use of artillery in both offensive and defensive operations. The book is also notable for its detailed instructions on the manufacture and use of gunpowder, which was a relatively new technology at the time. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of warfare, and it offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of early modern artillery. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 4to. (275 x 206 mm). 27 folding plates, engraved vignette on title, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout. Short tear to D1 not affecting text, a few instances of underlining in early red pencil to a few leaves, figure 56 browned, otherwise a remarkably fine and fresh copy with excellent plates. 19th-century Italian quarter vellum, paper side. Bookplate of Max Dreger. Very scarce First Italian edition, following the first edition of 1586 in Spanish, of this celebrated treatise on artillery by a Spanish engineer attached to King Philip II's army in Italy. Collado's manual is the first work detailing ballistic experiments based on the cannon. This edition is illustrated with 84 woodcuts, many folding, and entirely different from those in the original Spanish edition of 1586. Following progress in the science of arms at the end of the 16th Century, the author revises his work entirely, to such an extent that this present edition can be considered a separate work altogether, providing a complete picture of the state of artillery at the beginning of the 17th Century. The book is divided in seven sections detailing the history of projectiles prior to the invention of powder, the construction of cannons, the mathematics of artillery based mostly on the treatises of Tartaglia, as well as the transport, setting and use of cannons. There is also a chapter on fireworks and dialogues on the practice of artillery. The present expanded edition is much scarcer than the first edition.

Condizione: Very Good. Milan, Girolamo Bordoni, e Pietromartite Locarni, 1606. 4to. (20),+ 387 pp.+ 16 fold. wood cut plates. With over 60 wood cuts in text, several full page. Slight foxing in beginning. Contemporary vellum, blindstamped boards, spine with handwritten title and a paper label, traces of ties, red edges. Traces of a removed bookplate. From the library of Olle Cederlöf. Jordan, Bibliographie zur geschichte des Festungsbau 0752. Cockle 668 note. This is the first Italian translation of the improved Spanish version of Collado?s work on artillery. This work was first published in Italian, in Venice, in 1586. Dissatified with the Italian edition Collado made a new Spanish version, which was published in Milan in 1592. Spanish was Collado?s native tongue. ?The Pratica Manuale in its second form is sufficiently different to be considered a distinct work. Collado, dissatified, probably, with the first attempt rewrote the book in his native tongue? (Cockle). The present 1606-edition is the first Italian translation of the new version. It was reprinted in 1641. Hardcover / Hardback.

Venetia, Pietro Dusinelli, 1586. Folio. Nice later (around 1950) half polished calf, raised bands, 4 compartments gilt. Titlepage with a beautifull renaissance caryatid border in woodcut and with the coat of arms of the Duke of Aragon. Title with 2 small stamps. (4),92 leaves + 2 unnumbered leaves (at sign. T) with illustrations. Having 6 full-page and 29 smaller woodcut-iullustr. and 2 unnumb. plates. Clean and fine, with the illustrations in strong impressions. The opening initial in the preface has been cut out, with a bit of loss of a few letters on verso. The very rare first edition, the only edition in the original form, of Collado's famous work, being "the first really detailed, well-illustrated technical manual on both the theory and practice of artillery" (A.R. Hall in Ballistics in the 17th century)."The greatest interest of this work as far as pyrotechnics are concerned is contained in Chapter 11 which is entitled, "Of.fires which can be adopted for use in times of festivity.The text of the 1586 edition describes these items (a line rocket, a vertical and horizontal wheel, and a device called Spanish 'Las Granadas'), but they are not illustrated. This book contains some of the earliest and fullest descriptions of recreative fireworks." (Chris Philip, C 070.4)."Very rare, and one of the earliest works, if not the earliest, dealing exclusively with artillery. The numerous types of cannon figured are of great interest, while the work itself represents a fine specimen of typography." (Sotheran, Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica, vol. I, no 6987.Cockle (No 664) calls it "Very rare" the only ed. of the original form of Collado's famous work, Ayala, nor having seen it, gives the trans. of the Spanish "Platica" as a reprint of it."(Cockle). The "Platica" is a Spanish translation from 1592.