Three sixteenth-century treatises on fortification and siege tactics.

LANTERI, (GIACOMO) AND GIOVANNI BATTISTA ZANCHI

Delle offese et diffesse delle citta, et fortezze... con due discorsi d'architettura militare d'Antonio Lupicini Fiorentino. Venice: Roberto Meitti, 1601. Old brown calf, all edges sprinkled blue. 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (21.75 x 15.5 cm); [12], 88 pp.; 84 pp. 23, [1] ff., 69, [3] pp.; [47, [1] pp.; woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, decorations, diagrams and illustrations, 3 folding plates (two fold-out, one double-page), four single-page. Old calf, scuffed, worn and wormed but holding, faint old timeline to the lower margin, some toning but generally a clean copy internally.

The first collected edition of three sixteenth century treatises on fortification and siege tactics.
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