Collado, Practica manuale di artiglieria, Venice, 1586, contemporary tooled vellum

COLLADO, LUIS

Pratica manuale di arteglieria; nella quale si tratta della inventione di essa, dell'ordine di condurla, & piantarla sotto a qualunque fortezza, fabricar mine da far volar in alto le fortezze... Venice: Pietro Dusinelli for the author, 1586

folio (285 x 206mm.), title with woodcut armorial and within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations (some full-page), 2 woodcut plates, contemporary vellum gilt, two red string page markers, title-page slightly worn and tipped in, cut close with some headlines, catchwords and woodcuts shaved, slightly worn and stained at end, binding very soiled, hinges torn

FIRST EDITION. Collado was an engineer with the Spanish army in Lombardy and this work highlights the close links between artillery and fortification. It is considered the earliest treatise on artillery; Thomas Digges's copy is now in the British Library. For a later edition, see lot 21.

LITERATURE:

Cockle 664; Edit16 12739; Palau 57575

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Francis Fremantle, armorial bookplate