CATANEO, Girolamo. Tauole breuissime per sapere con prestezza quante file vanno à formare vna giustissima battaglia. Con li suoi armati di corsaletti, da cento fin à uentimilia huomini. Et appresso vn facilissimo, et approuato modo di armarla di archibugieri, & di ale di caualleria secondo l'uso moderno , Brescia, appresso Thomaso Bozola, 1567
4to. 32ff. Woodcut device on title-page, arms of the dedicatee, Conte Aloigi Avogadro, on the verso, a few woodcut diagrams, 27 pages of tables printed in red and black, a little light waterstaining at the end, in modern antique marbled boards.
Second edition of Cataneo's scientific method of marshalling up to 20,000 men in order of battle. An English translation appeared in 1574.
Cockle 529 (note); Riccardi I, 315; not in BMC, Adams or NUC
£700
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