Artillery, a collection of 6 works in Italian, by Capobianco, Collado, Moretti and others, seventeenth century

ARTILLERY, ITALIAN

A collection of 6 works from the seventeenth century, comprising

i. Capobianco, Alessandro. Corona, e palma militare di artiglieria. Venice: Francesco Bariletti, 1618, folio, woodcut on title-page, woodcut illustrations, later English calf, W.W. Radford, signature dated 1871, Thomas Francis Fremantle, armorial bookplate, purchased from Pickering & Chatto, 30 March 1901, £2-2s, [Cockle 673; USTC 4023336], a few leaves shaved, last leaf slightly worn, binding slightly worn

ii. Collado, Luis. Prattica manuale dell'artiglieria. Milan: Girolamo Bordoni and Pietromartire Locarno, 1606, 4to, woodcut illustrations, 16 woodcut plates (mostly folding), contemporary limp vellum, [Cockle 668; USTC 4030464], occasional staining, a few plates slightly torn

iii. Collado, Luis. Prattica manuale dell'artiglieria. Milan: Filippo Ghisolfi for Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1641, 4to, woodcut illustrations, 26 woodcut plates (24 folding), later speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, [USTC 4015180]

iv. Gentilini, Eugenio. Instruttione de' bombardieri. Venice: Francesco de' Franceschi, 1592, 4to, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, with final blank leaf, contemporary limp vellum, [Cockle 669; Edit16 20670], binding somewhat worn

v. Montanari, Geminiano. Manualetto de bombisti, overo ristretto delle avvertenze piu necessarie per ben maneggiare i mortari. Verona: Giovanni Battista Merlo, 1682, 12mo, 3 (of 4) folding engraved plates, contemporary vellum, manuscript title label pasted to foot of lower cover, [ICCU records 3 copies], lacking one plate, a few tears to plates

vi. Moretti, Tomaso. Trattato dell'artiglieria. Brescia: Giovanni Battista Gromi, 1672, 4to, 5 folding engraved plates, double-page letterpress table, carta rustica

together 6 volumes

Note found in the 1641 edition of Collado: "This book has diagrams & contents closely similar to those of my Italian MS of 1581. Cottesloe. 1927" (see lot 258). For an earlier edition of Collado, see lot 104.