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La fortificatione guardia difesa et espugnatione delle fortezze. by TENSINI, Francesco.; FIALETTI, Odoardo

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Seller: Ursus Books

Title: La fortificatione guardia difesa et espugnatione delle fortezze.
Author: TENSINI, Francesco.; FIALETTI, Odoardo
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1624. FIALETTI, Odoardo. La Fortificatione Guardia Difesa et Espugnatione delle Fortezze Esperimenta in Diverse Guerre. By Francesco Tensini. Three parts in one volume. [16], 83; 83, [1]; 128 pp. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical title-page by Philip Sadeler, a full-page engraved portrait of the author within allegorical border, and 11 double-page and 37 full-page copper-plate etchings by Odoardo Fialetti. Folio, 370 x 260 mm, bound in contemporary Italian vellum, title hand-lettered on spine. Venice: Evangelista Deuchino, 1624. A fine copy of the extremely rare first Edition of this exceptional illustrated book.The book was dedicated by the author Tensini to the Doge of Venice and the Venetian Senate.Tensini's text and the superb etched illustrations by Fialetti described and depict the construction of fortifications created for the protection of cities of the Venetian Republic. Francesco Tensini (1580-1630) was the most trusted and experienced of the Venetian Republic's engineers; he served for a time as military engineer in the service of the Emperor Maximilian, the Duke of Bavaria, and the King of Spain. Part one deals with the design of military architecture, optimal positions and locations, and the variety of possible fortification elements. Part two concentrates on the defense techniques to successfully protect the fortifications from outside attack. Part three focuses more on the strategy and specific modes, machinery and weapons used for assault on fortifications, including ships to ford moats, use of bridges and ladders, canon angles of attack, and techniques to crush and surmount fortification walls. Odoardo Fialetti (1573-1638), Italian painter and printmaker, began his training during the late Renaissance. He studied under Giovanni Battista Cremonini, but when still young travelled to Venice to work under Tintoretto. Throughout his career his artistic output reflected the academic traditions of the Caracci. Fialetti's etched plates portray with fidelity the variety of fortification systems, formations for defence and attack, siege craft, strategic calculations for artillery, and ballistic devices as elucidated in Tensini's text. However, a remarkable aspect to many of the etchings is the presence of Italian seventeenth-century life which Fialetti has incorporated into the overall design of many of the etchings. The plates are also considered a monument of Italian landscape etching in the seventeenth century and foreshadow the work of Callot and Stefano della Bella. For example, next to a fortification under seige littered with bodies of dead soldiers, one will find, either at the top of the illustration or to the side, a shepherd tending his flock of sheep, Franciscan monks walking along a road into the village with sticks and a bag over their shoulder, a man calmly reading a book under a tree, or a famer tending his fields of grain. The first plate, with two putti showing the measurement of Venetian standards of length, is signed by Odoardo Fialetti. The engraved title, within a magnificent architectural border incorporating allegorical figures, engines of war and a bird's eye view of a fortress, is attributed to Philip Sadeler, a Flemish artist living in Venice at the time, who may also have designed the full-page portrait of the author, aged 44, encased by an elaborate border showing putti with emblems of war and a vanquished Turk in lower panel. Its rarity is attested to by the fact that OCLC lists just the British Library copy, worldwide. Brunet V, 699. Grässe VI, 51. BL, Seventeenth-Century Italian Books 899. Cockle, Military Books 813. Breman 305. D'Ayala, Bibliografia Militare Italiana 123. Gamba Serie dei testi di Lingua 2099. Riccardi I, 515 & II, 5, 161. Spaulding & Karpinski 153. Thieme-Becker XI, 525. Bartsch XVII, 264-301.

Discurso Sobre el Panteon Que Esta Construyendo en el Convento Grande de San Francisco de Esta Capital by Unanue, José Hipolito

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Seller: McBride Rare Books

Title: Discurso Sobre el Panteon Que Esta Construyendo en el Convento Grande de San Francisco de Esta Capital
Author: Unanue, José Hipolito
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: Lima, 1803. Good.. [6],24,[1]pp. Disbound; lacks folding plate. Light tanning and scattered staining, slightly heavier to outer leaves. Small area of loss at head of title page, not affecting text. First of two editions, both issued in 1803. The author, José Hipolito Unanue was the head of the main Franciscan monastery in Lima at this time. Here, he proffers a written description, including measurements and siting details, of the large mausoleum being erected there for the burial of members of the order and of local religious societies. The descriptions is evocative and informative, though this copy lacks the engraving of the structure by Marcello Cabello. Nevertheless, a very scarce work; OCLC locates three copies in U.S. institutions -- Yale, Duke, and the JCB. Medina, Lima 1944. Palau 344285. Sabin 97714. Vargas Ugarte 3186.

Catalogue of the Very Select and Valuable Library of William Roscoe, Esq. Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Winstanley... Liverpool... the 19th of August, and Thirteen following days... 1816 by [ROSCOE, William, collection]

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Catalogue of the Very Select and Valuable Library of William Roscoe, Esq. Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Winstanley... Liverpool... the 19th of August, and Thirteen following days... 1816
Author: [ROSCOE, William, collection]
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Front cover detached, loss at foot of spine, a few small holes at gutter of title-page
Description: [London]: [J.M'Creery], 1816. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Front cover detached, loss at foot of spine, a few small holes at gutter of title-page. 8vo. 208 pages. Without the portrait, sonnet, and four leaves of "books omitted"; with a leaf at end advertising the auction sales of Roscoe's collection of pictures and prints. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Catalogue, mostly priced in ink, of the library of the great Liverpool historian (though best known for his children's classic, 'The Butterfly's Ball', 1807), prepared under his own supervision, after the failure of his family bank. The 1813 lot catalogue is rich in early printed books and Italian literature with many incunabula from the earliest Italian presses as well as the 1459 Psalter and 1460 Catholicon. On the front endpaper, in a later 19th-century hand, is a note regarding the sale ("The books were sold for £5150") and the text of Roscoe's "Sonnet" (on parting with his books). De Ricci, pp. 93-94. (BA).

GREENWICH VILLAGE AS IT IS by BARNES, DJUNA

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: GREENWICH VILLAGE AS IT IS
Author: BARNES, DJUNA
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1978. No. 26 OF 300 COPIES. 190 x 120 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 3/4"). [14] leaves. Publisher's orange buckram, spine with paper label lettered in pale blue. With nine full-page illustrations, which had accompanied the original 1916 magazine article. Spine rather sunned, otherwise flawless. Witty and full of evocative detail, this early work of a trailblazing modernist provides an engaging view of Greenwich Village as it was in the 1910s. Artist, journalist, and writer Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) originally wrote this charming account of her beloved Village--where she resided for most of her life--for the October, 1916 issue of "Pearson's Magazine." Accompanied by its original illustrations, this limited-edition republication--which is uncommonly seen on the market--ensures the survival of the little-known article, which is, the introduction tells us, "too good to be allowed to rest in undeserved oblivion." Our copy is from the library of Laure-Anne Bosselaar (b. 1943) and her husband Kurt Brown (1944-2013). Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, and editor who has published numerous works of poetry in multiple languages, including five collections of her own works. She has received various prizes and recognitions (Pushcart, Isabella Gardner, Breadloaf) and was named Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara in 2019. Sometimes publishing jointly with Bosselaar, Brown was also a prolific poet and editor of anthologies, as well as the founder and first director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, playing a pivotal role in shaping its early vision and establishing Aspen as a literary center..

Ortografía Razonada by Amunátegui Reyes, Miguel Luís

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Title: Ortografía Razonada
Author: Amunátegui Reyes, Miguel Luís
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: A very good unopened (uncut) copy.
Description: Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria, 1926. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) copy.. 62 pp. 12mo. Palau 11566.

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