Maggi, Della fortificatione delle citta, Venice, 1583, vellum-backed boards

MAGGI, GIROLAMO AND JACOPO FUSTI CASTRIOTTO

Della fortificatione delle citta. Venice: Camillo Borgominero, 1583

folio (359 x 245mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations (some double-page, including maps), with blank leaf *4, nineteenth-century vellum-backed boards, occasional light soiling

A wide-margined copy of the second edition, originally published in 1564 (see lot 286).

LITERATURE:

Edit16 91219

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Francis Fremantle, armorial bookplate, purchased from Pickering & Chatto, 6 March 1900, £1-10s