2 VOLUMES ON MILITARY SCIENCES, MONTANARI, 1690 [AND] MUSALO, 1702

i. Montanari, Geminiano (1633-1687). Manualetto de bombisti, overo ristretto delle avvertenze più necessarie per ben maneggiare i mortari: Aggiontovi le tavole delle inclinazione di essi mortari per fare i tiri giusti: Calcolate secondo la dottrina del Galileo, e d'altri matematici, e ridotte ad uso facile, da fervirsene senza far conti. Venice: Poletti, 1690, 8vo, 4 folding engraved plates, later boards, red edges, modern folding cloth box, (bought from Martayan Lan, New York, 1985), [T&W M119], without final blanks, one folding plate repaired, minor staining, boards slightly rubbed and discolouredii. Musalo, Andrea (1665-1721). Uso de' logaritmi nella trigonometria piana, e nelli tiri dell'artiglierie, e de' mortari a cui sono annesse le tavole d'essi logaritmi, tanto per i seni, e tangenti, quanto per i numeri dell'unita fino al 10000. Venice: Giovanni Domenico Nanti, 1702, 8vo, 3 engraved plates (2 shorter, one folding), contemporary mottled calf, red edges, (Georg Schackne, bookplate; bought from Pickering & Chatto, London, 1990), [T&W M152], title with minor tears, lacking errata at end, binding slightly worn with lower cover becoming detached

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