MOST BRIEFE TABLES to knowe redily how many ranckes of footemen armed with Corslettes, as unarmed, go to the making of a just battayle, from an hundred unto twentye thousande.
Next a very easye, and approuved way to arme a battaile with Harkabuzers, and winges of horsemen according to the use at these daies. Newly increased, and largelye amplified both in the tables, as in the declarations of the same, by the Authour himselfe. Girolamo Cataneo Novarese. Tourned out of Italian into English by H. G. Pp. [64], printed black letter, large folding woodcut of a battle scene at end (on a later stub), text figures and diagrams, 4 decorative woodcut initials, tables; small 4to; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in dark red morocco, spine lettered in gilt between two raised bands, the boards very faintly scuffed; dentelles ruled in gilt; later endpapers and binder's blanks, a little light foxing, small early inked annotation below the imprint on the final text page; imprinted at London by W. Williamson for John Wight, London, 1574. First edition in English. STC 4790; Cockle 19. *Often found as part 3 of Machiavelli's The Art of War (STC 17165). The author was an Italian military writer and architect, who worked mainly in Mantua and Brescia. He advised Vespasiano I Gonzaga, Duke of Sabbioneta, on construction of the city gates and defensive wall. The translator may have been Henry Grantham, whose translation of Scipio Lentulo's Italian Grammar was published in 1571. Item #169850
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