con novi artificii de fuoco ag gionti, come nella tabola appare, & de diverse forte polvere, & de espugnare una Citta con ponti, scale, arganti, trombe, trenciere, artegliari, cave, dare avisamenti senza messo allo amico, fare ordinanze, battaglioni, et ponti de disfida con lo pingere, opera molto utile con la esperientia de l’arte militare.
First edition. Numerous woodcut and typographical plans and illustrations. Some inked “scribble” to the last colophon leaf, light damp-staining throughout, otherwise very good in C17th full vellum, slightly rubbed, with red morocco lettering piece. [viiill.], 72ll. Venice, Piero della Ravano della Serena et Compagni, 1531.
Breman Military Architecture printed in Venice 322; Cockle 765 “Il Vallo (The Defence) where it concerns engineering and artillery is taken almost entirely from the ancients. Della Valle has no scientific knowledge whatever and writes from experience only. But the elementary character of his work made it accesible to the rudest soldier, and it ran through eleven editions in thirty-seven years, that is to say, more than any other military books in those times.”
