FLORIANI DA MACERATA, Pietro Paolo.- DIFESA ET OFFESA | Della Piazze | DI PIETRO PAOLO | FLORIANI DA MACERATA. | ...

FLORIANI DA MACERATA, Pietro Paolo.- DIFESA ET OFFESA | Della Piazze | DI PIETRO PAOLO | FLORIANI DA MACERATA. | Opera non solo utile, e necessaria à Capitani, | Gouernatori di Fortezze, ma anco di sommo | profitto à studiosi dell’Historie Militari, | cosi antiche, come moderme.- Seconda impressione.- In Venetia: per Francesco Baba, 1654.- [32], 216 p.: 1 portada grav., 1 retrato, 51 gravuras [i. é 52]; 34 cm.- E.
Pietro Paolo Floriani (1585-1638), Italian engineer and architect, born in Macerata, specializing in military buildings and fortifications; among his numerous works, we highlight the fortresses of Innsbruck, Austria, Altenburg, Hungary, San Germano, Piedmont and the defense lines of the city of Valetta, Malta. Second edition (the first was printed in Macerata, in 1630, by Giuliano Carboni), illustrated with an allegorical engraved title (heraldic and architectural), a portrait of the author (bust inserted in an architectural composition) and 52 copperplate prints, numbered from 1 to 51 (two prints with nº 14, A and B), eight of which are printed next to the text and the rest separately, the last one folding. Copy with slight browning, but generally clean; title page with slight handling and minor restoration; pictures 9, 10 and 11 bound in reverse. Recent full sheepskin binding with patina and decoration to the taste of the time (à la Duseuil). Graesse, II, 602. Coockle (Military books), 825.