Il perfeto bombardiero et real instruttione di artiglieri

Gentilini, Eugenio, Schiavina, Zaccaria, Gentilini, Eugenio. Breve discorso in dialogo sopra le fortezze · 1626 · In Venetia, Appresso Alessandro de' Vechi · 47 pictures

A 1626 Italian treatise on artillery and fortification, printed in Venice by Alessandro de' Vechi and associated with Eugenio Gentilini and Zaccaria Schiavina, written for gunners and military engineers. Its pictures are small woodcut decorated initials with bold black framing, scrollwork, and foliage, useful to a designer seeking historical letterforms and ornamental borders.

Artillery · Fortification

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