A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

FORTIFICATION.
765. Venetia. 1524. Delia Valle, Battista.
Vallo : libro cotinente appertenentie ad Capitanii, retenere
& fortificare una Citta co bastioni, con novi artiiicii de fusco
aggioti . . . et de expugnare una Citta etc.
Odavo. #, A-I in 8", including woodcuts.
Eds.: Napoli, 1521 (the first—discovered by Ayala); Venezia, 1526, 12";
ib., Ravano e compagni^ 1 631, 12°, and ib., F. di Leva, 1564, 12° —Ayala ;
ib., Ravano, 1528 and 1539,
8°*— Promis; ib., N. cTJristotile detto Zoppino,
1529, 8°; ib., P.di Ravani, 1535, 8"; ib., Gli heredi di P. de ^.,1543 and
'" Ayala,
1550, 8°8; ib., G. Guarisco & compagni, 1558, 8°. The date 1545,
is a misprint for 1543. ^^' trans.: Lyon, /. Moderne, 1529, 4°—Promis;
and ib., ib. [1554], 8° (this copy is unsewn). Same woodcuts in all.
" II Vallo " (The Defence), where it concerns engineering and artillery, is
taken almost entirely from the ancients. Delia Valle has no scientific knowledge
whatever, and writes fi-om experience only. But the elementary charader
of his work made it accessible to the rudest soldier, and it ran through
eleven editions in thirty-seven years, that is to say, more than any other
military book in those times.
Copies. B.M. (1524, 1529, 1535, 1543, 1550, 1558, and 1554); Bod.
(1535 and 1558).
766. Nurenberg. 1527. Durer, Albrecht.
Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schloss, und
flecken.
[Hieronymo Formschneyder'\
Folio. A-F2 in 4'. 10 folding woodcuts signed continuously with text.
Eds. : Nuremberg, 1530 and 1538, fols. ; Arnheim, 1603, fol., and Berlin,
1803,8"—Brunet; Berlin, 1823, 8°. Lat. trans., entitled: "Deurbibus,
arcibus castelHsque conden^is ", Paris, C. Wechel, 1535) fo'-j with same cuts
(A-H6 in 4*). Some copies of this sent out with new tp. without imprint,
probably intended to follow the " Institutiones Geometrica; " of same author.