(Books & Works on Paper | Live Online, 2nd December 2020) Architecture.- Busca (Gabriele) Architecture.- Busca (Gabriele) L'architettura militare…, del modo di fortificare luochi deboli, second edition, large printer’s woodcut device on title depicting cat eating a mouse within a strapwork border, ornaments, 43 large woodcut illustrations, some full page, 9 folding woodcut illustrations on 4 sheets, light age yellowing, contemporary limp vellum, ink title to spine, soiled. 2 extremities and spine end scuffed, pastedowns a little wormed, [Cockle 811; USTC 4028814], 4to, Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1619. *** Second enlarged edition (first Milan 1601) of one of the most important military architecture treatises of the period. Busca (c.1540-1605) collaborated in the construction of the forts of Montmèlian, Bourg-en-Bresse (1571), Exilles (here "Ichoe"), S. Maria di Susa, S. Francesco di Gravere and of the Consolata of Demonte; also directed from 1603 the construction of the fort of Fuentes to defend the northern border of the Spanish domains against the Protestant Grisons allocated in Valtellina.
(Books & Works on Paper | Live Online, 2nd December 2020) Architecture.- Busca (Gabriele) Architecture.- Busca (Gabriele) L'architettura militare…, del modo di fortificare luochi deboli, second edition, large printer’s woodcut device on title depicting cat eating a mouse within a strapwork border, ornaments, 43 large woodcut illustrations, some full page, 9 folding woodcut illustrations on 4 sheets, light age yellowing, contemporary limp vellum, ink title to spine, soiled. 2 extremities and spine end scuffed, pastedowns a little wormed, [Cockle 811; USTC 4028814], 4to, Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1619. *** Second enlarged edition (first Milan 1601) of one of the most important military architecture treatises of the period. Busca (c.1540-1605) collaborated in the construction of the forts of Montmèlian, Bourg-en-Bresse (1571), Exilles (here "Ichoe"), S. Maria di Susa, S. Francesco di Gravere and of the Consolata of Demonte; also directed from 1603 the construction of the fort of Fuentes to defend the northern border of the Spanish domains against the Protestant Grisons allocated in Valtellina.
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