Perussis, L'art des princes et des roys, Turin, 1668, 2 volumes, red morocco with arms of Savoy

PERUSSIS, LOUIS DE

L'art des princes et des roys, où il est generalement traicté de toutes les choses qui peuvent servir tant pour attaquer, & pour se deffendre, que pour acquerir, & pour conserver. Turin: Giovanni Sinibaldi, 1668

2 volumes, 12mo (138 x 75mm.), engraved frontispiece in each volume, half-titles, contemporary red goatskin gilt with the arms of Carlo Emanuele II, Duke of Savoy (1634-1675), spines gilt in compartments with printed paper armorial labels pasted to foot with shelfmark H 2/11 and H 2/12, gilt edges

An uncommon work by the sixteenth-century Louis de Perussis (1524-1584) who also wrote an account of campaigns in the Venaissin.